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The City of Newark is committed to turning downtown into a "24-hour city" and the downtown area is slowly beginning to develop a 24-hour presence. The former Hahne's and Lefcourt buildings have been converted into mixed use developments and other retail establishments including restaurants, bookstore, bank, doctors office, and over one hundred ...
The intersection of Broad and Market Streets as seen from the Prudential Plaza Building, in Downtown Newark, 2005. Newark is the second-most racially diverse municipality in the state, behind neighboring Jersey City. [55] It is divided into five political wards, [56] which are often used by residents to identify their place of habitation. In ...
Mulberry Commons and Prudential Center, Downtown Newark. The Coast/Lincoln Park; Downtown Newark; Government Center; Springfield/Belmont; University Heights; Teachers Village; Essex County Government Complex; James Street Commons Historic District
Newark's old Penn station, ca. 1911 1910-era map of ethnic enclaves in Newark, New Jersey. Newark was bustling in the early-to-mid-20th century. Market and Broad Streets served as a center of retail commerce for the region, anchored by four flourishing department stores: Hahne & Company, Bambergers and Company, S. Klein and Kresge-Newark ...
Newark was founded in 1666, and its downtown grew around the site of the early settlement at Four Corners. Early highrises were developed there and at Military Park during the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties. In the New Newark era [2] (1960s-1970s) modernist buildings went
The city's tallest buildings north of Market Street. The Four Corners Historic District is the intersection of Broad and Market Streets in Newark, New Jersey.It is the site of the city's earliest settlement and the heart of Downtown Newark that at one time was considered the busiest intersection in the United States. [3]
Harriet Tubman Square (formerly known as Washington Park) is a city square in Downtown Newark, New Jersey. [1] It is the northernmost of the three colonial era downtown parks in the city, along with Lincoln Park and Military Park. [2] The triangular park is bounded by Broad Street, Washington Street, and Washington Place at the end of Halsey ...
View looking southeast to Government Center. Government Center is a district in Downtown Newark, New Jersey, bounded by Broad Street, Green Street, Mulberry Street, and Beach Street and named for the presence of government buildings centered around a plaza called Federal Square.