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Mapping neighborhood demolition: 1950s to today
 
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Category: Gateway Center

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#282-280-278 Market

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center, Market Street

Tagged   army and navy store, clothing store, fire escape, joe's
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Hotel Edison, #771 McCarter Highway & Kirk Place, was Thomas Edison’s Newark lab.

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center, McCarter Highway

Tagged   fire escape, Hotel Edison
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W side Lawrence St looking NW from SE corner Market is now the middle of this super block.

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center, Market Street

Tagged   fire escape, Globe parcel service, post office mailbox
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NW corner Edison Place & Lawrence looking NW is now the middle of this super block.

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center

Tagged   brick road, building
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N side Edison Place looking NE at both corners Lawrence St is now the middle of this super block.

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center

Tagged   fire escape, multi level building, parking lot
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#296-294-292-290 Market

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center, Market Street

Tagged   Penn hardware, photo studio, Stern's plumbing and heating
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Old frame house behind #281 Market just E of Lawrence

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center, Market Street

Tagged   barbershop, bookstore, car park, dodge-newark supply co
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Park lot Raymond Plaza & Commerce looking NW is now Gateway Center.

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 July 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center

Tagged   keep right, kinney, man walking, suburban foods, traffic light, tree
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Alling St looking N from Edison Place

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 July 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center

Tagged   parking lot, sidewalk
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Kirk Place looking E from Lawrence St is now the middle of this super block.

  By Myles Zhang July 1961 August 2022 Downtown, Gateway Center

Tagged   Austin Realty Corp, brick road, lot
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