Olden Ironbound

 

Tram car going up Ferry Street towards Kerney, in the 1930s.

Ironbound Trust Company at Market & Ferry Streets original project with 3 big windows; the real thing turned out to be bigger: 

Ferry Street in 1915, with Schlesinger's Shoes on the right & Saint Stephen's, a German church serving the German community. 

Tram car aka trolley in Eastern Ironbound, just below the Pulaski Skyway.

In this 1873 map, one can see the German presence in the Ironboud; Hamburg Place (future Wilson Avenue) on the left; Roman Catholic Church of Saint Benedict which served the German community, on Barbara Street; Berlin Street lost its name to Rome Street; "Komorn" is the German name for Komárno, a city in present-day Slovakia; Given the massive Central European immigration to the Ironbound in the late 1800s, it is common for streets to be named after towns in Europe, similar to nearby names such as Berlin, Frankfurt, or Hamburg Place in Newark. ;