During his boyhood years, when his family resided on Carroll Street, Lautenberg roamed the hallways of School 6, an elementary school located on the aforementioned street, until his family moved out of the city. Lautenberg’s father left and returned to the city many times while attempting to start his own enterprises, most of which ended in failure; however, his son, after returning from fighting in World War II got together a group of friends and founded Automatic Data Processing or ADP, a payroll processing company. The company had its offices in the city prior to moving elsewhere.