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Mapping neighborhood demolition: 1950s to today
 
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Category: Demolished Buildings

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Looking NW at W side Columbia St from corner of Lafayette St

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Store mfr. 182 Mulberry is now a parking lot.

Tagged   abandoned building, mallor-mccabe, stove manufacturers
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Looking SE at S side Walnut #46-44-42 is now the front plaza of the federal courthouse.

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   bay window, row of buildings, sidewalk, street parked cars
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Looking SW at S side Lafayette St from corner of Mulberry St (Parker #52).

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown, Four Corners

Tagged   Carteret savings, park fast, parking lot
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Looking SE at S side Walnut from Orchard, #38-36-34-32

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   coca cola sign, colonial coffee shop, one way, row of buildings, sidewalk
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Looking NW at W side Liberty St from corner Lafayette St, #19-7, no longer exists as a street and is now this parking lot

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   fire escape, people walking, row of buildings
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Looking NW at N side Green St from corner of Mulberry, Ding-Ho Restaurant at #58 Green

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   corner store, dingho restaurant, one way, sidewalk
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Looking NW at N side Green St just W of Mulberry

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   #35, commercial building, parking lot
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Contemporary photo not available: Looking NE at N side Walnut from Federal Square, #42-46

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

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Tagged   42, commercial building, garage, no parking
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Looking SW at W side Columbia St from Lafayette St, #35-31

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   empty lot, row of houses, street parked cars
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Looking SW at S side Hamilton St from Liberty St is now the middle of this parking lot

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   cown broilers, hudson appliance corp, venino electrical
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Looking SE at S side Walnut from Mulberry #90-82

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   row of buildings, sidewalk, truck
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Looking SW at S side of Green St from corner of Mulberry St

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   fire escape, mail truck, man walking, one way
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Looking SW at S side Walnut St, #42-40 etc.

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   colonial coffee shop, help keep newark clean, trash can
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Looking NW at W side of Mulberry from corner of Green St

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   aning, corner store, ding ho restaurant, man walking, row of businesses, singer
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Looking SE at S side Lafayette St from corner of Mulberry St.

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown, Four Corners

Tagged   billboard, bontempo, camaro, drive in, esso, gas station, parking lot, pepsi
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Looking SW at W side Columbia from corner Hamilton St, #7-1. Amato Machine #5 Columbia.

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   auto machinery etc, electric motors, factory, old factory, sidewalk
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Looking NW at W side Columbia from Green St

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   multi level building, people standing, street parked cars
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Looking SE at S side Lafayette St from near corner of Broad St

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Broad Street, Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   fine furniture, goodyear truck, j parker, s, u-drive-it co
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Looking SW at S side Hamilton from Columbia Central Railroad Viaduct on right, #3-1 Columbia

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   akato machinery, billboard, electric motors, stove and range repairs
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Looking SW at W side Liberty St from Hamilton St

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   cown broilers, fire escape, hudson appliance corp
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Looking NE at N side Green St from Mulberry #76-86

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown

Tagged   louis zuckerman inc, row of buildngs, van
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Looking NW at W side Mulberry St from Lafayette St, #185-183

  By Myles Zhang August 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Downtown, Four Corners

Tagged   first national state bank, sewing machine company, singer
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Looking NE at E side Hunterdon, #90-92, is now the campus of UMDNJ.

  By Myles Zhang July 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, University Heights

Tagged   50, brakes adjusted, man walking, modern foam furniture, street parked cars
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Looking SW at S side South Orange Ave from Hunterdon St

  By Myles Zhang July 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, South Orange Avenue, Street Scenes of Partial Demolition, University Heights

Tagged   100, apartment building, Bank of commerce, billboard, bus, clarisse apartments, gas station, kar-kwik, lenny's auto center
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Looking SE at S side South Orange Ave from Newton St, #168-170 etc.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings, South Orange Avenue, University Heights

Tagged   little joe's, men standing, no loitering school zone
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Looking SW at W side Hunterdon from 14th Ave, #231-229-227-225

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   row of houses, street parked cars
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Looking NW at W side Bergen St, #293-275

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   bill's place, row of buildings, street parked cars
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Looking SW at W side Bergen from 14th Ave, #235-229 (corner restaurant at #229)

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Fairmount, Featured Memories

1967: Restaurant on Bergen St. and 14th Ave.

1986: Kea’s Ark on Bergen St. and 14th Ave.

Today: New Humanity Baptist Church on Bergen St. and 14th Ave.

Tagged   coca cola sign, fire escape, luncheonette, restaurant, ross's, street parked cars
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Looking SW at W side Hunterdon, #217-205

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   bare trees, bay window, row of houses, street parked cars
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#281 Morris Ave Public Bath of City Newark. Built 1925.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   public bath, sidewalk, trash cans
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Looking SW at W side Bergen St, #209-199

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   children, empty lot, house, multi level building
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Looking SE at S Side 13th Ave from Hunterdon St, #244-246 etc., is now the middle of this super block on the campus of UMDNJ.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Street

Tagged   atlas tires, fisk, newark chair and furniture, newcastle engineering and machine, parking in rear, superior garment corp, thrift shop
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Looking NW at W side Bergen St, #217-211 etc.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Fairmount

Tagged   apartments for rent, fire escape, row of buildings
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Looking NE at E side Wallace St, #44-44-46-48, is now the campus of UMDNJ.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, University Heights

Tagged   bare tree, row of houses, street parked cars
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Fire Alarm & Radio Division, originally Hook & Ladder #30 at #82 Bruce, is now the campus of UMDNJ.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, University Heights

Tagged   fire hydrant, firehouse, garage, hook and ladder
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Looking SE at S side South Orange Ave from Hunterdon St

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings, South Orange Avenue

Tagged   apartment building, clarisse apartments, fire escape, gas station, sidewalk, sunoco
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#78-80-80 1/2-82 3rd Ave

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, Lower Broadway

Tagged   house being demolished, men standing
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Looking SW at S Side 12th Ave from Newton, #32-38 etc., is now the campus of UMDNJ.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, University Heights

Tagged   row of houses, sidewalk, street parked cars
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Looking SE at SE corner 12th Ave & Newton is now the campus of UMDNJ.

  By Myles Zhang June 1967 April 2026 Demolished Buildings, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, University Heights

Tagged   newark gardens
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Looking SW at S Side 14th Ave from Morris Ave

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   apartment buildings, fire escape, one way, street parked cars
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Looking SW at S side 14th Ave from Bedford St, Gerardo’s #14 14th Ave

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   courtney's, food market, gerardo's, laundry, pepsi sign, sidewalk
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Looking SW at S side 15th Ave from Hunterdon St

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   corner store, diet-rite cola, food market, pepsi sign, row of businesses, sam the man
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Looking SW at S side 15th Ave from Bedford St

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   295, coca cola sign, corner store, people walking, row of buildings
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Looking SE at S side 14th Ave from Bergen St

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   row of buildings, speed limit 25, street parked cars
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Looking SE at S side 15th Ave from Hunterdon St

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   broad street 2 bars, Eddie's, liquor store, man standing, men walking, restaurant
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Looking SE at S side 14th Ave from Morris Ave

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   fire escape, one way, pepsi sign, row of buildings, shoe shine, tip top variety store
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Looking SE at S side 14th Ave from Bedford St

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   fire escape, row of buildings, truck, woman walking
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Looking SW at S side 14th Ave from Prospect Place, #28-30, is now the middle of this super block.

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   lounge, man standing, pink palace, row of buildings, sidewalk
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Looking SW at S Side 14th Ave from Bruce St, Park Place Lounge, #201 Bruce

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   allen's, children, food market, lounge, man walking, mayfair ice cream, pink palace, sidewalk
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Looking SW at S side 14th St from Hayes St

  By Myles Zhang May 1967 April 2026 Belmont, Demolished Buildings

Tagged   corner building, fire escape, sidewalk, traffic light, truck
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