Mulberry Street in Newark

Mulberry St. corner with Green St. that leads to Broad St. past the Federal Building on the left in 1967. 

Mulberry Street with the Singer Sewing Machine Co. building in 1967. 

Mulberry St. in 1961. 

Mulberry St. in 1961. 

Mulberry Street in the 1930s. 

Mulberry Street in the 1930s was heavily Chinese with Shanghai Restaurant on the left, Sai Wyu Restaurant on the right... 

a very busy Mulberry Street in 1922. 

Mulberry Street in 1961. 

Raymond Boulevard with Mulberry Street in the 1950. 

Mulberry St. and Raymond Boulevard in 1930. 

Mulberry St. with Market St. in the early 1960s.

Thomas Banker wrote: The cars suggest late 60s-early 70s, about when I was going to NCE. The area from Mulberry down to the railroad was going through a huge transformation with the Housing Authority buying (or condemning) virtually everything to make way for the Gateway project. 

While I rarely went into the area, its reputation was that it was essentially a red-light district, with drugs, prostitution and dive bars all around the area before the Gateway plan was implemented. With the riots fresh in everyone's mind, the plans for new buildings in downtown were shifted towards creating "defensible space", which is why the Gateway has a completely enclosed walkway from Mulberry to Penn Station, so the law firms and insurance company employees could go to work and back home without ever setting foot outside. 

The Essex County College "Megastructure" was similarly influenced, with its windows (still there today) designed as narrow slits so the building could be used as a fortress. As to the bar someone mentioned, there were a large number of bars in the neighborhood, including one on one of the Mulberry corners that had a reputation of being a "bucket of blood" for all the problems that happened there. For the better class, Commerce Street had a number of fine dining establishments that were patronized by the businessmen working in 744, 1180, the banks and the insurance companies.

Mulberry St. with Market St. in 2025.

a stretch of Mulberry Street from Franklin St. up to Market St.; see Columbia St. and McCarter Highway on the right... 

A larger map: Mulberry Street circled in red-ink from Franklin St. to Raymond Boulevard.