Government Center, Newark

Government Center is a district in Downtown Newark, New Jersey, bounded by Broad Street, Green Street, Mulberry Street, and Beach Street and named for the presence of government buildings centered around a plaza called Federal Square.^[1][2] Grace Episcopal Church, a national historic site, where the tune of America the Beautiful was written, is within the area. The larger-than-life bust Justice, a statue of George Floyd and another of Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson are in the district.

This article is about the federal and municipal government complex. For the county office and state court complex in Newark, see Essex County Government Complex.

View looking southeast to Government Center

Government Center is just south of the Four Corners Historic District and the Prudential Center and north of Newark Symphony Hall. Federal Square had once been called Vroom Alley, but was later renamed.^[3] To the east along Mulberry Street is the area that at one time was Newark's Chinatown.^[4]

While Government Center is the concentration of federal and municipal buildings, Newark is also the county seat of in Essex County. County government buildings are located at the Essex County Government Complex, the heart of which is the historic Essex County Courthouse, home of the New Jersey Superior Court.

Government buildings

• 
  Justice
• 
  MLK Building and Courthouse
• 
  US Post Office and Courthouse
• 
  Rodino Federal Building
• 
  City Hall
• 
  Villani Building (former police headquarters)

Building	Image	Street address	Organization	Dates of use	Notes	References
Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office & Courthouse		2 Federal Square	US District Court for NJ	1936–present	Following design of George Oakley Totten Jr. Dedicated to Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Senator from New Jersey
Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse		50 Walnut Street	US District Court for NJ	1992–present	Site of sculpture Justice Named for civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.	[5][6]
Peter Rodino, Jr. Federal Building		972 Broad Street	U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office	1967–present	Named for US Representative Peter Rodino, Jr. (NJ-10)	[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Newark City Hall		920 Broad Street	Municipal Council of Newark Mayor of Newark	1902–present	Statues of George Floyd and Kenneth A. Gibson, Mayor of Newark
Newark Municipal Court		31 Green Street
Ralph A. Villani Building Former Newark Police Headquarters		22 Franklin Street	Newark Police Department		Named for Ralph A. Villani, Mayor of Newark (1949–1953)
Newark Parking Authority		47-63 Green Street	Newark Parking Authority	2019–present		[13][14]

See also

• Gibraltar Building
• Newark Legal Center

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 ^{[dead link]}
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. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
8. NY Times July 7, 1995
9. Emporis: Peter RodinoBuilding^[usurped]
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.

See also

• Federal courthouses in New Jersey
• County courthouses in New Jersey
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey

External links

• NJ Judiciary: Map of Newark offices

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