New Kru Town is a town and northwestern coastal suburb of Monrovia, Liberia located on the north end of Bushrod Island. The town grew as a planned "transplant" town of Old Kru Town after World War II when "Old Kru Town was evacuated for the development of a new breakwater for the new port with assistance from the Liberian government". Being located on the corner of the Atlantic Ocean and the Saint Paul River estuary, fishing is an important source of income.A slum area, it has been subject to ethnic tension.