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

BuildingImageStreet addressOrganizationDates of useNamed forReferences
Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office & Courthouse2 Federal SquareUS District Court for NJ1936–presentU.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse50 Walnut StreetUS District Court for NJ1992–presentCivil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.[5][6]
Peter Rodino, Jr. Federal Building972 Broad StreetU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office1967–presentUS Representative Peter Rodino, Jr. (NJ-10)[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Newark City Hall920 Broad StreetMunicipal Council of Newark
Mayor of Newark
1902–present
Newark Municipal Court31 Green Street
Ralph A. Villani Memorial Building
Newark Police Headquarters (former)
22 Franklin StreetNewark Police DepartmentRalph A. Villani Mayor of Newark 1949–1953
Newark Parking Authority47-63 Green StreetNewark Parking Authority2019–present[13][14]


See also

References

  1. "NJ Judiciary: Map of Newark offices" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  2. New York Times December 12, 1989
  3. Engineering News-Record". New York: McGraw-Hill, 1917.
  4. When Newark Had a Chinatown, accessed November 2, 2007
  5. "New Jersey Federal Buildings".
  6. "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)
  7. "Peter Rodino Building, Newark | 121262". Emporis. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
  8. NY Times July 7, 1995
  9. Emporis: Peter RodinoBuilding
  10. Skyscraper: Rodino Federal Building
  11. +C+.com: Rodino Federal Office Building Archived 2010-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
  12. "Good night, Posterous".
  13. 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.
  14. 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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