Halsey Street is a north-south street in

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and, after a two block break,

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at the south. Halsey and its side streets have long been the one of city's corridors for shopping, dining, and entertainment. Since the 2000s, the street has undergone a revival as new projects have generated renewed residential, cultural and commercial activities, including a restaurant row. The development has been supported with the city's 2008 ''Living Downtown'' master plan and is part of greater trend in creating a vibrant downtown.

History and description

Halsey Street lies within the original settlement of Newark which was laid out soon after its founding in 1666: the land was part of the

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s distributed among the first settlers. It became a street during the early part of the 19th century during a period of great expansion. It is named for the

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(1770–1843), who served as first

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(1836–1837) after reincorporation as a city. North of Market Street, numerous row-houses from the earlier era are still found on Halsey and neighboring streets. 31 Central is home to an artists' collective and the LGBTQ Center. There are plans to replace it with a new residential and retail building. The stretch between Central and New Street has sited street festivals since 2010. Rutgers-Newark, whose campus begins in the neighborhood and lies to the west in University Heights, announced plans in 2017 for its Honors Living/Learning Center to be built at Halsey between New and Linden Streets. This is projected for completion in 2019. During the city's Gilded Age, a boom period at the turn of the 20th century in the

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, many low-rise homes were replaced by new commercial buildings, including several department stores, such as

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, Bamberger's,

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and

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. Ground was broken on the renovation of the Hahnes building in 2015, for

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as educational, residential, and retail spaces. A six-story addition was built on the Halsey Street side, featuring close to 100 apartments and an underground parking garage. Rutgers opened a new arts and cultural center on three floors of the Halsey Street annex in 2017. Called "Express Newark", it includes an 'arts incubator', media center, design consortium, print shop, portrait studio, and lecture hall, as well as exhibition and performance spaces. The project also includes a

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, CitiMD Urgent Care, and a restaurant by celebrity chef

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called Marcus B & P. Halston Flats, a restored former industrial building at

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converted to apartments with retail/restaurants on the ground floor, opened in 2017. The Kresge building, now home to

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, was once a stop on the Cedar Street Subway, part of Newark's extensive

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system. The S.Klein buildings was demolished to make way for a new tower that is part of

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complex, which has been based in the district since the company's founding in the 19th century. The Bambergers building, now called

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, has become an

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housing numerous computer systems including

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and

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. The area south of Market Street, dubbed SoMa by developers, includes the Teachers Village neighbourhood. This area is undergoing development under a revitalization master plan design by Newark native

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, which in turn has stimulated other building and renovation projects. It is home to Hobby's, a landmark delicatessen luncheonette, and new restaurants, shops, and a planned

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-style food marketplace. For much of the 20th century, the neighborhood was an entertainment district, including cinemas and the venues The Key Club and

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. The Newark Female Charitable Society is a group of historic buildings on Halsey at Hill Street. Halsey stops for two blocks, the

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having been broken during a period of urban renewal along Nevada Street. It then continues into the Lincoln Park neighborhood, former home of the radio station

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and current home of the art gallery

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. This stretch of the street is more residential. Since the new millennium, many new multi-family apartment buildings have been constructed, including a project built using shipping containers and other housing developments that are "fully affordable". New two-family homes have been built on adjacent streets. Plans have been announced for the development of the Facade, an outdoor performance space, on the grounds of the South Park Calvary United Presbyterian Church. At its southern end is the

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. In June 2020, a stretch of the street was painted with ''All Black Lives Matter''.

Gallery

File:Hahnes@HalseyNewSt2015renovate.JPG, Hahnes and Company Building File:Gibraltar Building - Newark - Halsey Street (former Prudential Hdqtrs).jpg, Gibraltor Building File:Market Street & HalseyStreet, Newark.jpg, Halsey at Market File:HalseyWilliamNewark1.JPG, Halsey at William File:Newark Female Charitable Society 305 Halsey.jpg, Female Charitable Society at Hill Street File:Highrises and a Gas Station (13658583254).jpg, View east of Court Street at Nevada Street File:HalseySt-WillowsNewark.tif, Halsey at W. Kinney File:LincolnParkFarmNewark.tiff, South Park Calvary United Presbyterian Church Facade File:CityWithoutWallsNewarkfacade.JPG, City Without Walls Gallery (cWOW) File:Entrance to Catedral Evangelica Reformada at Lincoln Park.jpg, Catedral Evangelica Reformada

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