Two men pose inside a store in Chinatown in 1967. The City Government tried unsuccessfully in the 1940s to revitalize Newark’s Chinatown, which flourished between the 1870s and 1920s in the neighborhood around Columbia and Lafeyette Streets, reaching a peak of over 2,000 people of Chinese descent. — Credit: Newark Public Library
Sisters Priscilla Eng Wong and Patricia Eng Wong stand outside of the Sun Wo Yuen grocery store and Canton Restaurant on Mulberry Street in 1964. Newark’s Chinatown flourished between the 1870s and 1920s in the neighborhood around Columbia and Lafeyette Streets, reaching a peak of over 2,000 people of Chinese descent. — Credit: Newark Public Library
