Newark Places of Interest
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, by celebrating diversity, shall be America's foremost urban presenter of arts and entertainment, a creative and effective leader in arts education for children, a convener of useful and enlightening civic engagement events, and a catalyst for economic development in its home city of Newark. (Source: NJPAC Website)
Prudential Center
Prudential Center, located in downtown Newark, NJ, hosts about 200 events a year, including NHL New Jersey Devils hockey, Seton Hall basketball, concerts, family shows, special events as well as other sporting events. (Source: Prudential Center Website)
The Jewish Museum of New Jersey
Founded in 2003, the museum's inaugural opening was in 2007. The historic building in the Broadway neighborhood is the longest continually operating synagogue in the city.[4] It was built in 1923 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. (Source: Wikipedia)
Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart
The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the fifth-largest cathedral in North America,[2] is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. It is located at 89 Ridge Street in the Lower Broadway neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Envisioned as a "fitting monument to the faith," construction began in 1899 and was finished in 1954. (Source: Wikipedia)
Newark Museum
The Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, is the state's largest museum. It holds fine collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, and Frank Stella. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Ironbound
Visitors to Newark, New Jersey, the state’s largest and most dynamic city, have come to know that dining and shopping in the Ironbound will be a highlight of their trip. The district is close to all of Newark’s top destinations including the Prudential Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark Museum, Rutgers University,even Red Bull Arena just across the Passaic River in nearby Harrison. (Source: Ironbound Website)
Branch Brook Park
The park is noted for the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the United States, having over 4,300 in more than fourteen different varieties collectively called Cherryblossomland, as well as its spectacular Cherry Blossom Festival each April. (Source: Wikipedia)
Military Park
Historic Military Park, serves as the central downtown gathering space for the Newark community and its visitors to enjoy together. After many years as an underutilized space, Military Park now attracts children, adults, local residents, office workers, and students to Newark's revitalized town square. (Source: Military Park Website)
Newark Public Library
The Newark Public Library is situated within the James Street Commons Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and one of the oldest sections of Newark. The Library faces Washington Park, formerly known as "the Market Place" and then as "the Upper Commons." (Source: Newark Public Library Website)
St. Lucy's Church
St. Lucy's was but an idea before its incorporation in 1891, but work immediately began to make the parish a reality. While many persons were involved, the great inspiration and day-by-day leadership came from Monsignor Perotti who guided the parish through its infancy into a major force within the Archdiocese and the city. (Source: St. Lucy's Church Website)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Through the Victorian Gothic gates of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, you enter Newark's oldest cemetery conceived in 1843 by jewelry maker, Horace Baldwin who envisioned a rural cemetery as a planned oasis on the outskirts of the city of Newark. Walk through the 40-acre cemetery's history and walk back in time. (Source: Mount Pleasant Cemetery Website)
Newark Symphony Hall
Newark Symphony Hall enjoys a long and rich cultural history as New Jersey's oldest and largest showcase for the arts, education and entertainment programming. (Source: Newark Symphony Hall Website)