Newark's Elm St. & Columbia St.

Newark policeman Joseph Baker on Elm Street between McCarter Highway & Columbia Street, in 1940.

Newark mounted police on (supposedly) Mulberry Street, Newark in 1947. 

Newark police car in the 1930s. 

Old man crosses a street in downtown Newark, in 1971. 

A photograph taken on Longworth Street in the 1970s.

There is a region in downtown Newark, between McCarter Highway and Broad Street which used to be hectic with myriad business and public transportation, it had electric street cars runing up and down the whole day. Coming the summer of 1967, and the infamous Newark riots took place and most of this region was put to the torch and remained half-empty throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s.  

Longworth Street on the left and Columbia Street on the right.

 Elm Street & Columbia Street.                                      

 

Elm St. with Columbia St.