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Category: Demolished Buildings
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E side Washington looking NE to Central from SW corner Bleeker was demolished by Edison Parking
SE corner Washington & Central looking E from NW cor. was demolished by Edison Parking
Old house 410 Washington St looking SE from Marshall was demolished for urban renewal towers.
E side Washington looking NE to Marshall from SW corner Governor
Hillock on SW corner First & New St
#386-388 West Market
Rear #88 North 6th St looking NE from 7th St, First Pingry School
W side Broad St looking SW from NE corner Franklin
W side Broad St looking NW from SE corner Franklin
Brick Building NW corner McCarter Highway & Cherry St
Old house NW corner Franklin looking W from opposite side Mulberry
#207-205 Mulberry, just N of Franklin
Old frame house W side Arlington just S of William
W side Broad looking SW from NE corner Green look to Hill
W side Broad between Lackawanna Place & Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western Railroad is now a parking lot NJ Transit employees
Frame house, #68-70, North 7th St just N of Sussex Ave
W side Camden just S of West Market looking SW, hillock, is now the middle of this super block.
Lackawanna Place looking W from Broad to Westinghouse on Plane
Old house SE corner West Market & Boston St
Quonset hut NE corner Fairmount & 12th Ave, looking NW from Camden, is now the campus of UMDNJ.
*Jehovah’s Witness Church, W side Morris Ave S of Cabinet is now the campus of UMDNJ.
*W side Morris Ave looking NW from SE corner Cabinet is now the campus of UMDNJ.
*#517 Central Ave garage, originally Cosmopolitan Movie
*Liquor store, #380 West Market St, origin Nickleodeon Movie
Cutler Street and Seventh Avenue


United States Savings Bank at northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and Cutler Street:

Aqueduct Alley, circa 1953, is now the middle of this super block. Photo provided by Anthony Megaro of Newark

Demolition of area of the First Ward along Seventh Avenue in 1953. Photo provided by Ace Alagna and Italian Tribune

Eighth Avenue, below Nesbitt Street, facing east in 1953. Photo provided by Mildred Avitabie of Newark

Ferrara’s Pasty Shop, corner of Eighth Avenue and Sheffield Street, circa 1950. Photo provided by Phyllis Ferrara of Newark

Alfano’s Restaurant at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Nesbitt Street. Photo provided by Dr. Prank Alfano of Lousiville, Kentucky

Procession on Sheffield Street, circa 1948. Photo provided by Msgr. Joseph Granato, St. Lucy’s Church Archives

St. Lucy’s Rectory and Seventh Avenue School, looking west up Seventh Avenue, circa 1948. Photo provided by Msgr. Joseph Granato of St. Lucy’s

Factory Street looking south from Seventh Avenue, circa 1948


Boys playing in front of A Zarro Grocery Store at 105 Mount Prospect Avenue, circa 1945. Provided by Annette Zarra CiFalino of Nutley

Italian Catholic Union, corner of D’Auria Street and Summer Avenue, circa 1945. Photo provided by Msgr. Joseph Granato, St. Lucy’s Church Archives

14 6th Avenue / 14 Victoria Avenue

Aqueduct Alley looking east from Clifton Avenue, circa 1930, is now the middle of this super block.

Molinaro’s Lemon Ice store at 67 Eighth Avenue, circa 1929, is now the middle of this superblock.

Clifton Avenue Bathhouse, near corner of Seventh Avenue, shortly before it closed

Teddy Corbo stands outside his monument shop at 10 Boyden Street, circa 1925. Photo provided by Jean Della Ventura of Verona

Tony La Morte poses outside La Morte’s Tavern at 19 Seventh Avenue. Photo provided by Debbie Mascara of Belleville

Michael Tuozzolo building at 186 Eighth Avenue, 1917. Photo provided by Rose Marinello of Bloomfield.
186 8th Avenue:


184 8th Avenue:

Garside Street, circa 1912, is now the middle of this superblock. Photo may be the work of Jessie Tarbox Beals



Second Police Precinct, southwest corner of Seventh Avenue and Summer Avenue, circa 1910. Photo appears in Newark, The City of Industry, published by the Newark Board of Trade




























