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Government Center, Newark

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 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

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

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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.
  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.

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