Post Office (former) Demolition – Newark NJ

City:
Newark, NJ

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1936

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

85 WPA workers demolished the then-obsolete 1898 post office building in Newark, New Jersey, on Broad Street between Raymond Blvd. and Academy St.

Source notes

"Highlight," a WPA publication, December 1936 issue, page 2. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 13, 2015.

Location Info


Broad St.
Newark, NJ

Coordinates: 40.737303, -74.171396

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