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Newark
Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, and the county seat of Essex County. Newark has a population of 281,402, making it the largest municipality in New Jersey and the 65th largest city in the U.S. Newark is also home to major corporations, such as Prudential Financial.
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Ironbound
The Ironbound is a large working-class neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. This close-knit, multi-ethnic community covers approximately four square miles (10 km²). Historically, the area was called "Dutch Neck," "Down Neck," or simply "the Neck,"...
Forest Hill
Forest Hill is an affluent pre-World War II neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey's North Ward. It is bounded on the west by Branch Brook Park, on the south by Bloomfield Avenue (some maps place the southern limit at 2nd Avenue), and on the east by...
University Heights
University Heights is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, so named because of the location of four academic institutions within its boundaries — Rutgers University (Newark Campus), the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Medicine...
Weequahic
Weequahic (pronounced wih-QWAY-ik, though many locals say WEEK-wake) is a residential neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey's South Ward. It is separated from Clinton Hill by Hawthorne Avenue on the north, and bordered by Hillside Township and the city...
Downtown Newark
Downtown Newark is Newark, New Jersey's major central business and cultural district. It is located at a bend in the Passaic River. Interstate 280 was built just north of Downtown.
Downtown is the site of the original Puritan settlement of Newark....
Vailsburg
Vailsburg is a neighborhood in the West ward of Newark, New Jersey elevation 280 ft. As of 2000, Vailsburg has a population of 34,348. There are 8,386 families living in 12,270 housing units, of which 11,456 are owner-occupied. There are 814 vacant...
Broadway
Broadway is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. It is located on the west bank of the Passaic River, in Newark's North Ward, east of Forest Hill and north of Seventh Avenue. The neighborhood extends from Interstate 280 to Belleville. The term ...
Seventh Avenue
Seventh Avenue, formerly known as the First Ward, is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey's North Ward. It was famously the heart of the city's large Little Italy.
In its heyday, Seventh Avenue had a population of thirty thousand, eleven thousand of...
Roseville
Roseville is a neighborhood in northwestern Newark, New Jersey, bordering Bloomfield and East Orange. To the neighborhood's immediate east is the Newark City Subway and Branch Brook Park. Roseville is divided into Upper Roseville north of 3rd Ave...
Springfield/Belmont
Springfield/Belmont is a Central Ward neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States. It is unofficially bounded by South Orange Avenue in the north, Avon Avenue in the south, Martin Luther King Boulevards and University Avenues on the...
Clinton Hill
Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in South Central, Newark, New Jersey. It is centered at Clinton Avenue, and bounded roughly by Elizabeth Avenue in the east, Hawthorne Avenue in the south, Avon Avenue in the north, and Irvington in the west.
Upper...
Mount Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant is another name for the lower Broadway neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, USA. It is an Urban Enterprise Zone and is poor. It is named for the hill overlooking the Passaic River on which it rests.
A number of landmarks in the...
Fairmount
Fairmount is a neighborhood in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey. Its population is mostly African American, of varying economic statuses. Central Avenue is the major street, though its commerce is considerably reduced from the Industrial Era...
Ivy Hill
Ivy Hill is a neighborhood in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey. Ivy Hill is actually not part of Vailsburg. It had been part of Newark since 1890 when Newark bought most of it from South Orange Township (Maplewood). In 1926, another 110 acres was...
West Side
The West Side neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, is bounded on the east by Bergen Street, on the south by Rose Terrace and Avon Avenue, on the west by Irvington and on the north by South Orange Avenue. The main roads running through the...
Dayton
Dayton is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey in the city's south ward, named after Jonathan Dayton. The area is bounded on the north by Peddie Street (Thomas Baldwin Peddie), on the east by Newark Liberty International Airport, on the south by...
The Coast
The Coast or Lincoln Park is a neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, bounded by the Springfield/Belmont, South Broad Valley, South Ironbound and Downtown neighborhoods. It is bounded by Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (High Street) to the west, Kinney St...
South Broad Valley
South Broad Valley is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. It borders South Ironbound, Dayton, Lower Clinton Hill, Springfield/Belmont and The Coast. It is bounded by The McCarter Highway, Peddie St, Irvine Turner Blvd, Avon Ave, Clinton Ave,...
Five Corners
Five Corners is the local name of an intersection of five streets in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey. It is the convergence of Wilson Avenue, Merchant Street, Ferry Street (the Ironbound's most-well-known street) and East Ferry Street
In...
Government Center
Government Center is an area in Downtown Newark that is named for the centralized presence of government buildings. It is south of the Prudential Center, west of Newark's old Chinatown neighborhood , north of The Coast neighborhood and east of Broad...
