Lincoln Park, Newark
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Lincoln Park Historic District
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| Location | Lincoln Park, Broad, Washington and Spruce Streetsd, Clinton and Pennsylvania Avenues Newark, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′35″N 74°10′45″W / 40.72639°N 74.17917°WCoordinates: 40°43′35″N 74°10′45″W / 40.72639°N 74.17917°W |
| NRHP Reference # | 84002646 |
| NJRHP # | 1280 |
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| Added to NRHP | January 5, 1984 |
| Designated NJRHP | November 22, 1983 |
Lincoln Park is a city square neighborhood in city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is bounded by the Springfield/Belmont, South Broad Valley, South Ironbound and Downtown neighborhoods. It is bounded by Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (High Street) to the west, West Kinney St. to the north, the McCarter Highway to the east and South St., Pennsylvania Avenue, Lincoln Park and Clinton Avenue to the south. Part of the neighborhood is a historic district listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. Lincoln Park as a street turns into Clinton Avenue toward the south edge of the park.
Lincoln Park itself was one of three original colonial era commons and for a long time the heart of a fashionable residential district, the others being Washington Park and Military Park. In the early 20th century, the Lincoln Park area was a neighborhood of nightclubs known as "The Coast". It was a center of jazz and a red-light district or "tenderloin" formally called the Barbary Coast, after San Francisco's neighborhood. The area is now home to the City Without Walls gallery (cWOW), Newark Symphony Hall and the Newark School of the Arts.
The district is slowly being revitalized by The Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District (LPCCD)., which states it mission to "develop a sustainable arts community built on affordable housing, green jobs, Black music, culture and urban farming The LPCCD sponsors the annual Lincoln Park Music Festival in July, which since beginning in 2006 has grown to be an event attracting 50,000 spectators. The LPCCD would like develop the Museum of African American Music. (MoAAM) in recognition of the district's past as a breeding ground for music.
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