Five Corners, Newark

St. Stephen's Church, a Five Corners landmark

Five Corners is an unincorporated community and neighborhood within the city of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is the local name of an intersection of five streets in the Ironbound section of Newark, including Wilson Avenue, Merchant Street, Ferry Street (the Ironbound's best-known street) and East Ferry Street, the latter two being part of the route of the former Lincoln Highway.

In film

In Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, this is the location where an alien tripod is first revealed, by breaking through and rising over the street, as a large crowd of people watch, including Tom Cruise's character. The machine then murders several people and obliterates almost everything in sight with its Heat Ray before moving on.

Newark neighborhoods

North Ward	Broadway Forest Hill Mount Pleasant Roseville Seventh Avenue

South Ward	Clinton Hill Dayton Port Newark South Broad Valley Weequahic

Central Ward	Chinatown Downtown Four Corners Government Center Lincoln Park/The Coast Springfield/Belmont University Heights

East Ward	Five Corners The Ironbound

West Ward	Fairmount Ivy Hill Vailsburg West Side

Coordinates: 40°43′41″N 74°09′20″W / 40.72806°N 74.15556°W / 40.72806; -74.15556

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