Halsey Street is a north-south street in Downtown Newark, New Jersey , which runs between and parallel to Broad Street and Washington Street. Halsey Street passes through the four of city's historic districts: James Street Commons at the north, the abutting Military Park and Four Corners and, after a two block break, Lincoln Park at the south.
27-565: Halsey Street may refer to the following: Halsey Street , in Downtown Newark, NJ Halsey Street (BMT Canarsie Line) , serving the L train in Brooklyn, NY Halsey Street (BMT Jamaica Line) , serving the J train in Brooklyn, NY Halsey Street , a novel by Naima Coster Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
54-485: A boom period at the turn of the 20th century in the Roaring Twenties , many low-rise homes were replaced by new commercial buildings, including several department stores, such as Hahne and Company , Kresge-Newark , Bamberger's , S. Klein and Orbachs . 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
81-484: 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 center is home to the annual AAPI Jazz Fest . The project also includes a Whole Foods , Barnes & Noble , Petco , CitiMD Urgent Care, and
108-579: A plan for a jazz institute as early as 1949, which he thought to call the "Institute of Modern American Music". It was originally located at his apartment at 108 Waverly Place in New York City . Marshall Stearns described the Institute of Jazz Studies' mission in 1953 as the following: The general aim of the Institute of Jazz Studies is to foster an understanding and appreciation of the nature and significance of jazz in our society. More specifically,
135-436: A planned Eataly -style food marketplace. For much of the 20th century, the neighborhood was an entertainment district, including cinemas and the venues The Key Club and Sparky J's . The Newark Female Charitable Society is a group of historic buildings on Halsey at Hill Street. Halsey stops for two blocks, the street grid having been broken during a period of urban renewal along Nevada Street. It then continues into
162-539: A restaurant by celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson called Marcus B & P. In 2024, Samuelsson opened Vibe BBQ at the location. Halston Flats, a restored former industrial building at Raymond Boulevard converted to apartments with retail/restaurants on the ground floor, opened in 2017. The Kresge building, now home to Newark Public Schools , was once a stop on the Cedar Street Subway , part of Newark's extensive streetcar system. The S.Klein buildings
189-409: A revival as new projects have generated renewed residential, cultural and commercial activities, including a restaurant row. The city's 2008 Living Downtown master plan helped kickstart development in the 2000s and was part of a greater Newark trend in pursuing a vibrant downtown. In 2023 the city introduced incentives to stimulate rental of storefronts along Halsey and adjacent streets. As of
216-513: A stretch of the street was painted with All Black Lives Matter . In the fall of 2023, the city launched the Newark Retail Reactivation Initiative. To stimulate rental of empty storefronts the program makes monetary grants to qualifying businesses along Halsey Street corridor within the zone bordered by Broad Street to the east, Washington Street to the west, Washington Place to the north and William Street to
243-596: Is in the Gibraltar Building on Halsey. The area south of Market Street, dubbed SoMa by developers, includes the Teachers Village neighbourhood. This area is undergoing development following a revitalization master plan design and work completed in 2018 by Newark native Richard Meier 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
270-503: Is open to graduate students of library science or recent graduates with an interest in jazz or African American studies . It is supported by the Morroe Berger–Benny Carter Jazz Research Fund, an endowment established by musician Benny Carter in 1987 to provide grants to facilitate jazz research by students and scholars. The Fellowship Program is also funded by private funds. In 2014, the fellows focused on
297-901: Is separate from the library and is part of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at the university. In 2013, the Institute was designated a Literary Landmark by New Jersey's Center for the Book in the National Registry of the Library of Congress . It is the fifth place in New Jersey to be given this designation, after the Newark Public Library , Paterson Public Library , the Walt Whitman House and
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#1732791996224324-524: The Lincoln Park neighborhood, former home of the radio station WNSW and of the art gallery City Without Walls . 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
351-590: The 2020s, it is home to a growing number of small independent retail, dining, arts, and nightlife establishments. North of Market Street to Harriet Tubman Square 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
378-493: The Institute and performing independent jazz-related research. To date, more than 70 awards have been granted. In 2016, the Institute of Jazz Studies opened Clement's Place, a jazz lounge open to the public in the neoclassical skyscraper at 15 Washington Street in Newark. It is home to jazz jam sessions and listening parties. It is named for the late historian and jazz enthusiast Clement Price . The Institute presents
405-631: The Institute proposes to work toward this goal by pooling the knowledge and skills of authors and musicians, who have pioneered in the field of jazz, with those of social scientists and other experts whose techniques and studies may be brought to bear on the subject. In this manner, jazz and related subjects will be given the range and depth of scholarly study which they so richly deserve, and a vital but neglected area in American civilization will be illuminated. Stearns negotiated transfer of IJS to Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in 1966. He died before
432-860: The Joyce Kilmer Tree, which is located at Rutgers University–New Brunswick . Major collections housed in the Institute include the Jazz Oral History Project, the Mary Lou Williams collection, the Women In Jazz collection, the Benny Carter Audio collection, and the Benny Goodman Audio collection. In 1952, the Institute of Jazz Studies was founded by Marshall Stearns , a jazz scholar, literature professor, and author. Stearns had
459-659: The collection of Ismay Duvivier , a dancer, and her son George Duvivier , a bass player. In 1987, the institute began funding up to ten grants of $ 1,000 each year. The fund was started by musician Benny Carter in memory of Morroe Berger. Berger was a professor of sociology at Princeton University until his death in 1981. Half of the awards are designated for students in the Rutgers–Newark Master's Program in Jazz History and Research and half are awarded to scholars from other institutions. The awards are for visiting
486-688: 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 Catedral Evangelica Reformada . An alleyway that sits in the middle of Lincoln Park’s “Little Five Points” (a convergence of Lincoln Park Place, Crawford Street, South Halsey Street, Bleeker Street, and Washington Street) was converted in 2021 to an open-air art area. In June 2020,
513-605: The final transfer took place. In 1967 the Institute materials were moved to the Newark campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Charles Nanry, a sociologist, worked part-time as its administrator. It was first located in the Dana Library (1972), then moved to Bradley Hall (1975). The Institute was formally affiliated with the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers in 1984. The current expanded facilities in
540-516: The library opened in 1994. Over its 70 years of existence, the Institute has acquired significant collections of periodicals as well as books, records, and archival materials from several musicians, photographers, and journalists. Major collections include the personal papers of Mary Lou Williams , Victoria Spivey , Abbey Lincoln , Annie Ross , Benny Carter , and James P. Johnson . A special column in The Record Changer jazz magazine
567-569: The longest running English-language scholarly jazz journal. It is open-access and peer-reviewed. Studies in Jazz , a monograph series with Scarecrow Press , publishes books related to jazz. In addition to its publications, the institute also hosts Jazz from the Archives , a radio show on WBGO radio that airs every Sunday and a Jazz Research Roundtable. Since 2012, the Institute has also hosted an annual Jazz Archives Fellowship. The fellowship
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#1732791996224594-595: The neighborhood and lies to the west in University Heights , opened its Honors Living/Learning Center, with an interior public plaza, at Halsey between New and Linden Streets in 2022. Ground was broken on the renovation of the Hahnes building in 2015, for adaptive reuse 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
621-484: The original settlement of Newark which was laid out soon after its founding in 1666 : the land was part of the plots 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 William Halsey (1770–1843), who served as first Mayor of Newark (1836–1837) after reincorporation as a city. During the city's Gilded Age,
648-695: The south. Institute of Jazz Studies#AAPI Jazz Fest The Institute of Jazz Studies ( IJS ) is the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. It is located on the fourth floor of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University–Newark in Newark, New Jersey , United States. The archival collection contains more than 100,000 sound recordings on CDs, LPs, EPs, 78- and 75-rpm disks, and 6,000 books. It also houses more than 30 instruments used by prominent jazz musicians. The Jazz Studies academic program at Rutgers for music students
675-492: The title Halsey Street . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halsey_Street&oldid=990734359 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Halsey Street (Newark) Halsey Street lies within
702-426: Was demolished to make way for a new tower that is part of Prudential Headquarters complex, which has been based in the district since the company's founding in the 19th century. The Bambergers building, now called 165 Halsey Street , has become an internet exchange point housing numerous computer systems including DE-CIX New York and Lexent Metro Connect . The New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission
729-469: Was the initial, temporary place of publication for the Institute of Jazz Studies scholarship. The Journal of Jazz Studies (JJS) was published from 1973 to 1979. Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) publication began in 1981 as a continuation of JJS. Today, the Journal of Jazz Studies is an open-access online journal. The online journal continues and expands upon the tradition of the original JJS/ARJS as
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