Hidden History of Newark, New Jersey - Paperback

by Helen Lippman (Author)

Brick City Past Revealed/

Newark's history is as diverse and powerful as the community that continues to call New Jersey's largest city home. The colonial settlement at Four Corners--the Broad and Market intersection--grew into one of the most heavily traveled thoroughfares in the nation. In the nineteenth century, innovations such as the public use of the electric light bulb in Military Park and the discovery of how to make patent leather established Newark as a flourishing industrial hub. Dramatic events including the battle between Nazi sympathizers and city residents in the 1930s, hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and the event that triggered the infamous 1967 riots, defined a raucous twentieth century in Newark. Today, urban farming can be found in the Ironbound, NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has helped fund the city's first high-rise tower in fifty years and revitalization efforts continue. Author Helen Lippman presents hidden history of Newark, New Jersey.

Author Biography

Helen Lippman was born and raised in Newark. She earned a BA in English from Rutgers-Newark and an MA in journalism from NYU. After covering healthcare and medicine for many years, she began writing articles and giving talks about her hometown. Her book To Newark with Love: A City, a Family, a Life was published in 2023. Lippman's work has appeared in a variety of publications and outlets, including GoNomad.com, Hadassah magazine, New Jersey Monthly, the New York Times and Wanderlust. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with a cat named Barry.