The Coast, Newark, New Jersey
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The Coast or Lincoln Park is a neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, bounded by Springfield/Belmont, South Broad Valley, South Ironbound and Downtown. It is bounded by Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (High Street) to the west, Kinney St. to the north, the McCarter Highway to the east and South St, Pennsylvania Ave, Lincoln Place and Clinton Ave to the south. The area often referred to as Lincoln Park was more commonly referred to as the Coast in Newark's past. The area is home to the City Without Walls gallery (cWOW), Symphony Hall and the Theater Cafe (which has performances by the African Globe Theatre Works). Today, with Newark's redevolopment plans the district is beign revitalized as the The Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District (LPCCD). The center of development for the area is the Museum of African American Music (MoAAM), just as NJPAC was considered the center or the start of Downtown's redevelopment. The museum and much of the surrounding development is being designed by Hillier Architecture, who are also designing the renovations and addition to the Newark Public Library[1]. Newark in the past has been a large producer of gospel music and continues to produce well-known black artists. The Coast is being redeveloped to pay homage and recreate on a small scale an area with deep roots in African American music. The museum will be a collection of archives of "blues, spirituals, hip-hop, rock 'n'roll, gosbel, house music, and rhythm and blues". Help for the construction of the museum and the surrounding redevelopment is coming from the Smithsonian Institute has been working with the city. An "Arts Park", is also in the planning in addition to new housing, stores, a restaurant, nightclub, music studio and dance studio[2]. In early plans for a third Newark Light Rail segment (connecting Penn Station and Newark Liberty), a stop was proposed for Lincoln Park/Symphony Hall on Mulberry Street and Camp Street.
