It wasn't hard to tell when the New York Avenue Block Association began winning the war against the drug dealers and crackheads in their Jersey City Heights neighborhood.

Ross London, who founded the group in 2002, said on two occasions bricks came flying through windows of his home. His car was repeatedly damaged and one time they even left a dead bird on his windshield as a warning.

But he wasn't alone. The properties of other residents were also damaged and one was threatened with death if he attended another association meeting, London said.

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