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Newark Riverfront Park is a park and promenade being developed in phases along the Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Essex County Park System . The park, expected to be 3 miles (4.8 km) long and encompass 30.5 acres (12.3 ha), [ 2 ] is being created from brownfield and greyfield sites along the river, which ...
Rose gardens behind the tennis courts in Weequahic Park in the early part of the 20th century. In 2021, a new community center opened in the park, called the "crown jewel" of the South Ward at its ribbon-cutting by Governor Phil Murphy, with a 100-foot-long patio for outdoor seating and office space for the two primary Newark community groups that support the park, Weequahic Park Sports ...
Branch Brook Park is a county park of Essex County, New Jersey. It is located in the North Ward of Newark, between the neighborhoods of Forest Hill and Roseville. A portion of the park is also located within the Township of Belleville. At 360 acres (150 ha), Branch Brook Park is the largest public park in the city of Newark.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (in Weequahic), the largest hospital in Newark, was built under the auspices of the Jewish community. Author Philip Roth grew up on Summit Avenue, graduated from Weequahic High School in 1950, and many of his novels (such as American Pastoral and Nemesis) are set there. It was known as a predominantly Jewish ...
When complete, the Essex-Hudson Greenway will become a 9-mile, 135-acre linear park that runs through Jersey City, Secaucus, Kearny, Newark, Belleville, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge and Montclair.
Technology High School has a GreatSchools rating of 9/10 and was ranked 165th in New Jersey Monthly's 2010 rankings. Newark high schools ranked in the bottom 10% of the New Jersey Monthly 2010 list include Central (274th), East Side (293rd), Newark Vocational (304th), Weequahic (310th), Barringer (311th), Malcolm X Shabazz (314th) and West Side ...
Riverbank Park is a park in the Ironbound section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The park was opened in 1910 [3] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1998. [4] It is the smallest and one of the most heavily used parks in the Essex County Park System. [5]
In 2016, months before the end of former President Barack Obama’s second term in office, the city of Newark, N.J., and the Department of Justice reached a deal to overhaul policing in the city ...