12. Three Corners (Diamond Street, Butcher´s Row, Printer´s Corner)

Everything happens at Three Corners. That is, practically any service a city might conceivably provide happens along the strip of commercial zoning named after the three most prominent streets that intersect it. The city’s merchandise mart is here, as are innumerable office buildings, street-side cafes, upscale bars, fancy hotels and even a restored movie theater that now serves as a small civic center annex. The neighborhood abounds with vintage architecture, both restored and au naturel, which gives the area a charming sense of anachronism. The small cloisters of residential space in Three Corners speak to their owners’ genteel sophistication.

Background

Three Corners is a font of history, its streets named a century-plus ago after businesses that no longer really thrive here anymore, though business in general does. In particular, Butcher’s Row no longer even has a butchershop on it, though you can get the city’s best Italian sausage sandwich in the lunchroom at Vince’s on Butcher. Years ago, Three Corners was a neutral-ground stronghold for some of the European criminal organizations that immigrated to Newcastle, but those gangs are either mythical or have retreated to their own, quieter, ethnic neighborhoods.

Alternative Name(s)

Mercantile Sector

Type

District

Location under

New Castle