View source for Woodside, Newark

{{Short description|Area of Newark, New Jersey, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
[[File:Newark PL North End Branch jeh.jpg|thumb|[[Newark Public Library]] North End Branch]]
[[File:Lady Good Counsel annex 243 Woodside Av Newark jeh.jpg|thumb|Lady of Good Counsel]]
'''Woodside''' is a small neighborhood in the [[List of neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey|North Ward]] of [[Newark, New Jersey]] that is part of the larger [[Broadway, Newark|North Broadway]] district in the northeastern section of city. It is located on the west bank of [[Passaic River]], along which runs [[New Jersey Route 21]]. [[Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Newark, New Jersey)|Mount Pleasant Cemetery]] lies to the south and [[Forest Hill, Newark|Forest Hill]] is to the west. The town of [[Belleville, New Jersey|Bellville]] shares its northern border at the [[Second River (New Jersey)|Second River]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/newark/2008/03/neighborhood_snapshot_woodside.html|title=Neighborhood snapshot: Woodside|first=Christine V.|last=Baird|date=March 27, 2008|website=nj}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://knowingnewark.npl.org/woodside-in-the-last-century-a-land-rich-in-game-and-legend/|title=Woodside in the Last Century: A Land Rich in Game and Legend|website=Charles Cummings}}</ref>

==History==

===Woodside Township===
'''Woodside Township''' was a [[township (New Jersey)|township]] that existed in [[Essex County, New Jersey|Essex County]], [[New Jersey]], [[United States]], from 1869 to 1871.  Woodside was incorporated as a township by an Act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on March 24, 1869, from portions of [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville Township]]<ref name=Story>"The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 133.</ref> On April 5, 1871, almost two weeks after its second anniversary, the township was dissolved, and its territory was absorbed by [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]] and [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]].<ref>{{Citation |last = Hine |first = Charles Gilbert |title = WOODSIDE The North End of Newark, N. J. Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered From the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living |publisher = |year = 1909 |url = https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63996/63996-h/63996-h.htm |isbn = }}</ref>

===Cockloft Hall===
In the early 1800s [[Washington Irving]], his oldest brother [[William Irving (New York)|William]], [[James Kirke Paulding]] a few friends formed a group known as the "Lads of [[Kilkenny]]", described as “a loosely knit pack of literary-minded young blades out for a good time.”<ref>{{Citation |title = Newark's Literary Lights |publisher = Newark Public Library |year = 2016 |url = https://npl.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Newarks-Literary-Lights-2016.pdf}}</ref><ref name=Nigro>[https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/01/25/so-why-do-we-call-it-gotham-anyway Nigro, Carmen. "So, Why Do We Call It Gotham, Anyway?", New York Public Library, January 25, 2011]</ref> When they weren't spending time at the [[Park Theatre (Manhattan)|Park Theatre]] or the Shakespeare Tavern at the corner of [[Nassau Street (Manhattan)|Nassau]] and [[Fulton Street (Manhattan)|Fulton Streets]] in [[Lower Manhattan]], they gathered at an old family mansion on the [[Passaic River]] in Woodside which [[Gouverneur Kemble]] had inherited and which they called "Cockloft Hall".<ref>{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Kemble, Gouverneur|year=1892 |short=x}}</ref> For a short time they produced [[Salmagundi (periodical)|Salmagundi]], a periodical.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/historicnewarkco02fide/page/24/mode/2up|title=Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city;|date=August 30, 1916|publisher=Newark, N.J., Printed for the Fidelity trust company|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

===Rail stations===
[[File:North Newark sta NY&GW Broadway steps cloudy jeh.jpg|thumb|Remnants of the North Newark station]]
Woodside Station, near the intersection of Grafton Avenue & Oraton Street, was a stop on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad [[Newark Branch]]. There was a small railroad green, snack bar & ticket station next to the tracks. Passenger service was discontinued in 1966, although freight service, operated by [[Norfolk Southern Railroad]] as the Newark Industrial Track, remained active for a time and served several local industries.

The [[North Newark station]], with service provided by the Erie Railroad's [[New York and Greenwood Lake Railway (1878–1943)|New York and Greenwood Lake Railway]] and later by [[NJ Transit]]'s [[Boonton Line]] was located on Broadway. The right of way is a planned state park, the [[Essex–Hudson Greenway]].

===Housing project===
The Archbishop Walsh Homes, named for [[Thomas Walsh (archbishop of Newark)|Thomas Joseph Walsh]], the first [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark|Roman Catholic Archbishop of Newark]] holding the position from 1937 until his death in 1952, when the project was built. It consisted of nine 8-story buildings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dana.njit.edu/items/show/270|title=Archbishop Thomas J. Walsh Homes · DANA|website=dana.njit.edu}}</ref> They were demolished beginning in 1997 replaced by "town homes" and a recreation center called the Waterfront.<ref>{{cite news   | last = Augunstein   | first = Seth   | title = Waterfront recreation facility in Newark seen as way to revamp troubled North Ward neighborhood   | publisher = The Star-Ledger   | date = May 22, 2013   | url = http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/05/waterfront_recreation_facility.html   | accessdate = 2023-09-24}}.</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{coord|40.768|-74.166|type:adm3rd_globe:earth_region:US-NJ|display=title}}

{{Newark Neighborhoods}}
{{Essex County, New Jersey}}

[[Category:Populated places established in 1869]]
[[Category:Geography of Essex County, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Former townships in New Jersey]]
[[Category:1869 establishments in New Jersey]]
[[Category:History of Newark, New Jersey]]


{{EssexCountyNJ-geo-stub}}