New Jersey
Newark
Newark is much larger than the stereotypes attached to its name. This guide moves from Penn Station and the immigrant Ironbound through the colonial crossroads, Prudential, museums, brewery wealth, Black entrepreneurship, the contested memory of the 1967 rebellion, performance history and Branch Brook Park to tell the story of an industrial city that kept changing without ever disappearing.
Stories in Newark
- Newark Penn Station: The City as a Transfer Point
- The Ironbound: Immigration Inside a Ring of Railroads
- Four Corners: The Grid Begins in 1666
- City Hall: Governing an Industrial Giant
- Prudential: Selling Security to Working America
- Military Park: The Commons That Learned to Become a City Park
- The Newark Museum: A Museum Built for a Working City
- Ballantine House: Beer Wealth and the People Behind the Rooms
- Krueger-Scott Mansion: A German Brewer, a Black Entrepreneur and One House
- July 1967: The Rebellion Newark Could Not Explain Away
- Newark Symphony Hall: Where a Movie Palace Became a Black Cultural Stage
- Branch Brook Park: The County Park Before the Famous Cherries