Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Newark Central Ward housing complex is scheduled to be demolished
But the troubled history of the complex, repeated delays for razing the site, and promises of a park to replace it, have left many city residents skeptical.
“I can’t tell you the number of timelines we’ve been given over the last three years,” said Charone Montayne who helps run the nearby High Park Gardens apartment complex and is running for City Council.
“I’ll believe it when I see the fencing,” she said, referring to the first phase of the project.
The housing project was built in the early 1930’s by Prudential Insurance as segregated minority housing. In 1983 New Community Corporation took over management of the complex, but neighborhood residents said the true managers were the gang lords that occupied and defended the complex as an open market for drugs and prostitution.
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