The Newark Street Jail was built in 1837. Renamed the Essex County Jail Complex when several
additional structures were constructed, it remains Essex County, New Jersey's oldest
standing municipal building.
This is what it loos like today, almost 175 years later
The undergrowth has been thriving in the recent warm springtime weather, and the outer yards are
hard to navigate, between all the rotting waste and sharp objects scattered about
Perhaps the structure decayed long ago or perhaps it was removed, but this cellblock is right...
does anyone here see the little girl in this photo. it's saturday, on 14th street, the people, the stores, john's bargain store (gone now), the union shops, there were a few temporary office buildings where people would stand outside...