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dengeist t1_j4pj3s6 wrote

Reply to comment by loulloyd29 in Martin Luther King walking through the South Ward in Newark on March 27, 1968 by LateNightNewYork

Why do you say they don’t exist anymore? That looks like Clinton Hill to me…

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srddave t1_j4pkeji wrote

I was thinking the same thing.

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dengeist t1_j4rq9gd wrote

…and it still looks like that?

(I don’t care about downvotes, learn other parts of Newark)

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loulloyd29 t1_j502y4z wrote

I think this street is what MLK Blvd is now. These buildings r too old of an architectural style to be anywhere but rly close to downtown and if u look at the old buildings that still stand on MLK today they look just like this but over half of them r gone and the ones that r still there r so dilapidated.

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Newarkguy1836 t1_j57knge wrote

Yeah, except MLK/ High Street is a wide Road. If you're view perspective is good, you will quickly realize that road is too narrow to be MLK. The only part of MLK that narrow is in North Newark and that was mostly white Italian and Puerto Rican at the time with Columbus homes having replaced that entire neighborhood.

I think this was one of newark's north south numbered streets from 1st to 22nd Street.

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loulloyd29 t1_j57xffb wrote

MLK around Court and W Kinney is about this wide. There’s no way of knowing tho. It’s def in central ward

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