Happening Now: Blues People International Festival Underway in Newark
The Blues People International Festival has returned to Newark, New Jersey for a second annual weeklong celebration of jazz, funk, salsa, and gospel music. The festival is free to the public and aims to celebrate music representative of and developed by people of African descent.
Newark Gets a Beer Garden, Another Indication of the City’s Revival
Newark’s 'restaurant row', just outside the Prudential Center, welcomed a new a beer garden last month. Named Redd’s Biergarten, the new 7,000 square foot establishment is run by the same folks behind Redd’s at Metlife Stadium.
State Commissioner Overrules Panel, Paves Way for Newark’s Tubman Statue
Approval for a Harriet Tubman monument planned in Newark was first denied, but now a New Jersey commissioner has overruled the state panel of preservationists.
PHOTOS: NJIT Residence Hall Rising Where Historic Newark School Previously Stood
The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s new 548-bed residence hall is being built at the site of the old Warren Street School in University Heights, Newark.
If Walls Could Talk, They’d Shout ‘Off with the Vinyl!’
Newark could have the prettiest neighborhoods in America… but only if we gave the humble rowhouses the same dignity as the greatest mansions on Ballantine Parkway.
Where Trailers Stand in Newark, a New University Hospital Could Rise with Gensler’s Help
The second-largest hospital in Newark, and the only state-run hospital in New Jersey, is chronically over capacity. However, a new facility is in the works that would ease the strain.
40-Story High-Rise Proposed for Newark’s Lower Broadway Neighborhood
A project with 484 units and commercial space has been proposed for seven properties near Clay Street and McCarter Highway in Newark.
Kastner Descendant Dreams of New Life for Historic Newark Mansion
In 1890, the Kastners bought a plot of land in what was then the German district, and hired a talented, but lost-in-time architect to build them a "beer-baron mansion" with Franz’s initials – FJK – etched over the doorway, a feature that came crashing down earlier this year.
Textile Lofts Will Bring 64 New Residences To Newark’s Ironbound Neighborhood
Construction is currently underway to convert the four-story building at 118-126 Green Street, at the northeast corner of New Jersey Railroad Avenue in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark's East Ward, into the five-story Textile Lofts development.
Residential Conversion in the Works for Newark’s Maple Avenue School
Developers are planning to convert a former Newark elementary school into a residential building.
