Chinatown, Newark, New Jersey
Newark Chinatown | |
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Neighborhood of Newark | |
Coordinates: 40°43′27″N 74°10′21″W / 40.72422°N 74.172574°W | |
Country | United States |
State | New Jersey |
County | Essex County |
City | Newark |
ZIP Code | 07102 |
Area code(s) | Area code 973 |
Newark's Chinatown was an unincorporated community and neighborhood within the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It was an ethnic enclave with a large percentage of Chinese immigrants, centered along Market Street from 1875 and remaining on some scale for nearly one hundred years. The center of the neighborhood was directly east of the Government Center neighborhood. The first Chinese in Newark came from there community in neighboring Bellville, home of the East Coast's first Chinese commnunity.[1] The first Chinese businesses appeared in Newark in the second half of the 19th century and in the early part of the 20th century. By the 1920s, the small area had a Chinese population of over 3000.[2]
In 1910, a small lane with housing and shopping was built called Mulberry Arcade, connecting Mulberry Street and Columbia Street between Lafayette and Green Streets. In the 1920s, recurring federal opium raids[3] disrupted the community, causing many to move to more peaceful places. Despite an attempt to revive the neighborhood decades later, the Mulberry Arcade (the center of Chinatown) was removed in the 1950s. A 21st century project in the area is called Mulberry Commons.
Today there is barely any sign that a Chinatown existed in the neighborhood, and only a small Chinese population remains. There is a Chinese restaurant on Lafayette Street and another on Green St. Nearby, the Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center on Liberty Street, in an old factory in the Chinatown neighborhood, exhibits arts from various world cultures.
References[]
- ^ Xu, April (7 April 2017). "The First Chinatown on the East Coast". Asian American Writers' Workshop. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ Skeete, Yoland. "When Newark Had A Chinatown". Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
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External links[]
- Sumei Multidisciplanary Center
- When Newark Had a Chinatown
- 1910 map showing Chinese population in Chinatown
Coordinates: 40°44′05″N 74°10′05″W / 40.734771°N 74.168100°W
- Chinese-American culture in New Jersey
- Ethnic enclaves in New Jersey
- Neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey
- Chinatowns in the United States
- Populated places established in 1875
- 1875 establishments in New Jersey