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.

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.

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

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BuildingImageStreet addressOrganizationDates of useNotesReferences
Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office & Courthouse2 Federal SquareUS District Court for NJ1936–presentFollowing design of George Oakley Totten Jr.
Dedicated to Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Senator from New Jersey ||
Martin Luther King Building & U.S. Courthouse50 Walnut StreetUS District Court for NJ1992–presentSite of sculpture Justice
Named for civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.		[5][6]
Peter Rodino, Jr. Federal Building972 Broad StreetU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office1967–presentNamed for US Representative Peter Rodino, Jr. (NJ-10)[7][8][9][10][11][12]
Newark City Hall920 Broad StreetMunicipal Council of Newark
Mayor of Newark		1902–presentStatues of George Floyd and Kenneth A. Gibson, Mayor of Newark
Newark Municipal Court31 Green Street
Ralph A. Villani Building
Former Newark Police Headquarters		22 Franklin StreetNewark Police DepartmentNamed for Ralph A. Villani, Mayor of Newark (1949–1953)
Newark Parking Authority47-63 Green StreetNewark Parking Authority2019–present[13][14]

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References

  1. ^ "NJ Judiciary: Map of Newark offices". Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
  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". Archived from the original on April 21, 2014.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-24. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
  7. ^ "Peter Rodino Building, Newark | 121262". Emporis. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
  8. ^ NY Times July 7, 1995
  9. ^ Emporis: Peter RodinoBuilding
  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 (7 March 2019). "City agrees to lease back parking lot for $27M that it sold for $1". nj.com. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  14. ^ Yi, Karen (13 February 2019). "City sold property for $1. Now it wants to rent it back for $27M.". nj.com. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

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