Seth Boyden Terrace
The Seth Boyden Terrace, named after Seth Boyden, was a former public housing complex in the List of [neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey|South Ward] of Newark, New Jersey.
Inception
The project, one of the City of Newark's first attempts at providing public housing, was built between 1938 and 1941, opening in late 1941. The three-story buildings, located at Frelinghuysen Avenue, Center Terrace, Dayton Street, and Seth Boyden Terrace, contained 530 apartments.In 1942, the 530 families who lived in the project, along with an estimated 1000 children, were put under quarantine when three children were stricken with paralysis. It was believed that the polio virus was the cause.
There is currently Seth Boyden Elderly housing still in use through the Newark Housing Authority. The Seth Boyden Terrace housing project in Newark was abandoned in 2015 after years of neglect and was demolished in 2022.