⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking Newark, NJ: Broad Street from City Hall to Harriet Tubman Square

February 12, 2023 - 12:00 PM
46°F / 8°C

Walking northbound on Broad Street (also known as Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Boulevard) from Newark City Hall to Harriet Tubman Square in downtown Newark, New Jersey.

Highlights:
00:00 - Newark City Hall
03:42 - First Presbyterian Church
05:15 - Broad Street and Market Street intersection
06:39 - Prudential Plaza (world headquarters of Prudential Financial)
07:07 - National Newark Building
08:09 - Entrance for the Military Park Newark Light Rail station
09:42 - Eleven80 residential tower
10:25 - Entering Military Park
10:51 - President John F. Kennedy memorial
12:15 - "Wars of America" monument by Gutzon Borglum
13:31 - Prudential Tower
15:34 - Trinity and St. Philip's Cathedral
16:14 - Monsignor Doane Park
16:40 - First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church
18:04 - Marquee for the former Little Theatre
19:19 - Equestrian statue of George Washington
20:32 - The Newark Museum of Art
20:46 - Entering Harriet Tubman Square (formerly Washington Park)
21:41 - Audible Innovation Cathedral
22:10 - Seth Boyden monument
22:35 - Harriet Tubman monument (under construction)
23:19 - Abraham Coles memorial
23:49 - Newark Public Library
24:02 - Indian and the Puritan monument
24:29 - Harriet Tubman Square Newark Light Rail station

From Wikipedia:
Downtown Newark is the central business district of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey.

Downtown is the site of the original Puritan settlement of Newark located at a bend in the Passaic River. The first settlers, led by Robert Treat, landed not far from the present site of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The intersection of Broad and Market Streets, known as the Four Corners was once considered the busiest intersection in the nation, and is the heart of traditional downtown.

Most of Newark's office buildings are located in this area including Prudential Financial's Headquarters (also known as Prudential Plaza) and their new office tower that was recently constructed on Broad Street across from Military Park. In the post-World War II era, downtown seemed to be moving north during the New Newark architectural period, in the direction of Washington Park. Since the 1967 civil unrest, it has been shifting slightly east in the direction of Newark Penn Station, the Gateway Center and the Passaic River. Panasonic constructed their North American HQ building on Raymond Blvd near McCarter Hwy. There are several more new office buildings including One Newark Center, The Legal And Communications Building, The two Penn Plaza office buildings, which are home to NJ Transit and Horizon Blue Cross, the Claremont building on McCarter Hwy, which is office space for the FBI and several other federal agencies, and a few other office buildings. There is also several projects in the design stages for this area.

Much of the city's retail and commercial developments is centered on Broad Street and Market Street. The intersection of the two streets, known as Four Corners is widely considered to be one of the busiest in the state and at one time was considered the busiest in the country.