Government Center is a district in Downtown Newark in Essex County, New Jersey. It is named for the presence of government buildings centered around a plaza known as Federal Square,[1][2] which had been called Vroom Alley, but was later renamed.[3]It is .
The district, part of which is within the Four Corners Historic District is just south of Four Corners on the east side of Broad Street and the Prudential Center and north of Newark Symphony Hall. In the center is Grace Episcopal Church, a national historic site, where the tune of America the Beautiful was written. To the east near Mulberry Street is the area that at one time was Newark's Chinatown,[4] and host to restaurants serving the district and the sports center.
Government buildings
Justice at MLK Courthouse
US Post Office and Courthouse (1934) following design of George Oakley Totten Jr.
Rodino Federal Building
Federal Square and City Hall
Villani BuildingPolice (former police headquarters
| Building | Image | Street address | Organization | Dates of use | Named for | References |
| Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office & Courthouse |  | 2 Federal Square | US District Court for NJ | 1936–present | U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg | |
| Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse |  | 50 Walnut Street | US District Court for NJ | 1992–present | Civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. | [5][6] |
| Peter Rodino, Jr. Federal Building | 972 Broad Street | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office | 1967–present | US Representative Peter Rodino, Jr. (NJ-10) | [7][8][9][10][11][12] | |
| Newark City Hall | 920 Broad Street | Municipal Council of Newark Mayor of Newark | 1902–present | |||
| Newark Municipal Court | 31 Green Street | |||||
| Ralph A. Villani Memorial Building Newark Police Headquarters (former) | 22 Franklin Street | Newark Police Department | Ralph A. Villani Mayor of Newark 1949–1953 | |||
| Newark Parking Authority | 47-63 Green Street | Newark Parking Authority | 2019–present | [13][14] |
See also
References
- ↑ "NJ Judiciary: Map of Newark offices" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
- ↑ New York Times December 12, 1989
- ↑ Engineering News-Record". New York: McGraw-Hill, 1917.
- ↑ When Newark Had a Chinatown, accessed November 2, 2007
- ↑ "New Jersey Federal Buildings".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Peter Rodino Building, Newark | 121262". Emporis. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
- ↑ NY Times July 7, 1995
- ↑ Emporis: Peter RodinoBuilding
- ↑ Skyscraper: Rodino Federal Building
- ↑ +C+.com: Rodino Federal Office Building Archived 2010-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Good night, Posterous".
- ↑ Yi, Karen (March 7, 2019). "City agrees to lease back parking lot for $27M that it sold for $1". nj.com. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ↑ Yi, Karen (February 13, 2019). "City sold property for $1. Now it wants to rent it back for $27M". nj.com. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
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