1 9 6 0 's Newark

 

Broad Street looking east next to South Street and Tichenor St. in 1966; Lincoln Park is on the left side. The car on the right is a Buick 1963. FB user says: They used to call it a dangerous place when Newark was full of Italians! 

1960s.

Broad Street corner of Market St. circa 1970. See a placard bearing the name of Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio who was trying to be re-elected for the last time in 1969. 

Addonizio served as a Newark mayor from 1st July  1962 through to 1st  July 1970, when he lost his reelection bid. 

A state investigation into his administration commenced following the 1967 Newark riots that occurred during his tenure, which led to the discovery that he and other city officials took kickbacks from city contractors. In December 1969, he and 9 current or former officials of the municipal administration in Newark were indicted by a federal grand jury.

In July 1970, the former mayor and 4 defendants were found guilty by a federal jury on 64 counts each, one of conspiracy and 63 of extortion. In September 1970, Addonizio was sentenced to ten years in federal prison and fined $25,000 by U.S. District Court Judge George H. Barlow for his role in a plot that involved the extortion of $1.5 million in kickbacks, a crime that the judge said "tore at the very heart of our civilized society and our form of representative government".

Addonizio served half of his ten-year sentence before being released on parole.

Newark Mayoral election was held on 16 June 1970. Addonizio lost to Kenneth A. Gibson, the very first Black mayor in what would become a Black wave of mayors throughout the USA.