The North Ward Center is a non-profit, community development organization in Newark, New Jersey, that serves 10,500 people annually.
The North Ward Center was founded in 1970 by Stephen N. Adubato Sr. after the race riots in 1967 that hastened the exodus of Newark's middle class population.
But as the North Ward's population became predominantly Puerto Rican in the mid to late 1970s, the center changed its name to reflect a new mission.
[1] The North Ward Center started operations in a small, second-floor office on Bloomfield Avenue in Newark.
Today, the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places,[2] serves as the administrative offices of the center.