Newark
As a wine lover, I’m pleased to report that New Jersey ranks fourth in the nation for per- capita wine consumption. By comparison, for every four glasses of wine a Jersey girl or guy raises to toast, someone from Mississippi is only drinking one.
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By Suzanne Zimmer Lowery -
March 13, 2012
Daniel Rosati leads gustatory tours of his famous neighborhood, the Ironbound.
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By Paula Span -
March 12, 2012
Touting healthier and more flavorful items, the latest owners hope to position the venerable company “for the next 124 years, God willing.”
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By Steve Adubato -
March 12, 2012
More fond memories of growing up Italian in Newark—and beyond.
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By Jen A. Miller -
March 12, 2012
The fastest high school cross country runner in the nation attends St. Benedict's Prep School in Newark.
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By Steve Adubato -
January 16, 2012
In Newark’s North Ward, it was all about family, friends—and food.
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December 12, 2011
Feast or frolic, explore or extol, we’ve got you covered for a self-directed festival of discovery and delight. Every week, meet a bit of the Garden State you need to know by heart.
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Last night, I flew into Newark, and my fiancé picked me up. As we were pulling out of the airport, he mentioned that there was nothing in the house for dinner, and what did I think about taking a trip to the Ironbound section of Newark? After a day of airport delays, the Brazilian and Portuguese food of the Ironbound felt like travelling internationally without need of a passport. Yes, please!
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On a hot sunny day on Halsey Street in Newark, two people share a slice of shade...
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Part Pac-Man, part rearing horse, part pentangle...
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All things considered, a busy intersection...
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Outside what appeared to be a pre-school on Halsey Street in Newark
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Outside what appears to be a pre-school on Halsey Street in Newark...
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By Jacqueline Mroz -
April 11, 2011
50 years ago, Israel Dresner joined the Freedom Riders—and made an inspiring friend.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
April 11, 2011
The Dalai Lama prepares for his fourth visit to the Brick City, where he will attend a centennial celebration of his homeland's art at the Newark Museum.
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By Anthony D'Amato -
March 14, 2011
In the shrinking world of jazz radio, WBGO is not just a survivor but a national leader.
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By Candace Wells -
February 15, 2011
The Prudential Center in Newark prepares to host games during the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight rounds of the NCAA tournament in March.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
January 17, 2011
The founder of Tempo, a Newark-based TV network with 3.5 million views on 24 Caribbean islands, talks about the company's success.
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By Caren Chesler -
October 11, 2010
The state is sending more of its prisoners to low-security halfway houses. Some fear there are dangerous criminals in the mix.
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By Leah Koenig -
August 16, 2010
In Newark, a small congregation strives to maintain its historic presence.
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By Warren M. Bobrow -
June 16, 2010
In the Ironbound section of Newark, an ebullient, down-to-earth crowd rolls up its sleeves for heaps of the freshest fare of the sea, Portuguese style.
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By Emily Faherty -
April 13, 2010
May 21 & 23: Celebrating its 45th anniversary season, the New Jersey State Opera presents the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess at Newark Symphony Hall.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
March 15, 2010
Stefanie R. Minatee attended the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles with her longtime friend Queen Latifah.
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By Jessica Remo -
January 12, 2010
As Jersey starts to install red-light cameras, opponents continue to question the benefits.
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By Jen A. Miller -
December 14, 2009
Have you ever wondered whatever happened to flying cars? Author Paul Milo has some ideas about failed technological predictions from the past.
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By Eric Levin -
November 10, 2009
Tracing seven generations back to the leader of Newark’s first Jewish congregation.
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By Linda Fowler -
November 9, 2009
At the Newark Museum, Ulysses S. Grant’s great-great-grandson presides over a vast collection of decorative art objects.
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By Mallory Gelert -
October 13, 2009
The Flemmings infuse their nursing facility with warmth and dignity.
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By Ken Schlager -
October 13, 2009
But rough-talking political boss Steve Adubato Sr. has become a legend by building valued social institutions in Newark’s North Ward.
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By Mallory Gelert and Alicia Staffa -
September 14, 2009
From fright fests to haunted hayrides, ghostly attractions abound.
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By Jennifer V. Hughes -
September 14, 2009
It’s not easy—or cheap—being a superhero. Just ask Newark police detective Genaro Ortiz Jr., who for eighteen years has donned a Batman suit to speak in front of schools and community groups about issues like Halloween street safety.
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By Leslie Garisto Pfaff -
August 11, 2009
If you work for Prudential, there’s a good chance you don’t work at Prudential. Roughly 60 percent of the workforce participates in the company’s Alternative Work arrangement, at some point in any given month pulling up a chair in the kitchen or family room and connecting to the company’s systems remotely.
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By Jessica Remo -
August 11, 2009
Besides PSEG’s extensive mentoring programs, in-depth orientation for new hires, career development workshops, and leadership academies, there’s Talent Week—an annual summit where leaders choose outstanding employees and rotate them into different departments to broaden their knowledge base and thereby prepare them for senior positions.
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By Emily Faherty -
August 11, 2009
Verizon believes in fostering its assets—from the technologies it produces to the people who develop and apply those technologies.
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By Tammy La Gorce -
August 11, 2009
When Maplewood director/producer Marc Levin got word that his friend Forest Whitaker was interested in coproducing the documentary Brick City, which begins airing September 21 on the Sundance Channel, he had one question: Why would the Oscar-winning Whitaker, a native of South Central Los Angeles, want to do a film about Newark?
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The Beatles tribute band Rain played NJPAC yesterday afternoon. The five members of Rain can play, but the show, with its slavish impersonations and onslaught of strobes and smoke and flower-power visuals, indulges in something the Beatles had no truck with: schlock.
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Some days you just get lucky. Yesterday, when tickets for the Lil Wayne concert fell in my lap, was one of those days.
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By Emily Faherty -
March 18, 2009
April 18: Follow “dance through the decades” at the New Jersey Ballet’s 50th Anniversary Gala at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
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By Emily Faherty -
March 18, 2009
April 22–26: Rock around the clock at the Newark Museum’s 100-Hour Centennial Marathon. At the five-day event, you can start the morning with sunrise yoga and Tai Chi, or meditate with Tibetan Monks.
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By Steve Adubato -
March 16, 2009
Susan G. Komen for the Cure will hold its second Race for the Cure event in Newark's Branch Brook Park on April 26.
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As a former Sunday School attendee and teacher, I've heard more than my fair share of "This Little Light of Mine." Listening to twenty or so gospel singers from South Africa belt it out, however, was an entirely new religious experience.
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By Leslie Garisto Pfaff -
August 13, 2008
They rode in on a tide of hope. A decade later, the promise of New Jersey’s charter schools is only partially fulfilled.
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On Treat Place at the corner of Branford Place in Newark, there's a clothing store where what flanks the windows is more interesting--to me, anyway--than what is in the windows. Although they do look nice together.
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Much of what you are about to see are known in baking as "laminated pastries."
Sounds like something you would break a tooth on but could leave out in the rain for weeks.
The truth, in this case, may not set you free, but it will melt in your mouth.
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July 10, 2008
Our critics do a lot of eating, and every August we look back and share the best of the best with you. And you do the same by voting in our Annual Readers' Choice Restaurant Poll. Discover which restaurants we honored and which are your favorites.
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Standing today in a spotless room stocked with vital fluids and equipment for delivering them, I had a flashback.
Just five and a half weeks ago, I spent several hours in a strangely similar room, having essential fluids dripped into my body from plastic packs hung from prongs on metal poles just like you see here.
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Hard job selling insurance ten feet off the ground, day after day.
Aside from the stiff neck, the poor creature can't even turn around to locate the source of that powerful aroma of salami just 20 yards behind him on Branford Place in Newark.
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As the New Jersey National Guard gears up for its biggest foreign deployment since World War II, Hobby's Deli in Newark is gearing up to support them. You can help.
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By Jill P. Capuzzo -
June 9, 2008
Calandra’s Bakery started as an immigrant’s dream. Today it is a regional brand—and growing.
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Comedian, liberal firebrand, Cornell grad, and River Vale native Bill Maher preached to a sold-out concert hall at NJPAC in Newark on Friday night.
There probably wasn't a Republican in the house, but there certainly were Catholics and plenty of other Christians, plus people who take prescription drugs, heterosexuals, homosexuals, Hillary-ites and Obamaphiles, and most likely some NASCAR fans.
And they all laughed. And for good reason. Maher is an equal opportunity lacerator. But more than that, he's a newshound, and very funny.
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Driving along First Street in Newark yesterday,
returning from a doctor's appointment,
came to a red light.
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Luck is when you have been struck by a car backing down a driveway (see yesterday's post), suffered a mild concussion, a hairline skull fracture, various contusions and abrasions, and yet are not in such terrible shape that you can't look at your surroundings with interest.
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No, this picture is not upside down. But if you are lying on your back on a gurney in a Level 1 Trauma Center, and your neck is in a brace, as mine was, about all you can do is tilt the camera up and backwards.
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By Lauren Payne -
February 20, 2008
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects, the organization’s New Jersey chapter has selected the 150 best buildings and places in the state. Here are a few of the most notable, from a Gothic basilica to a funky old burger joint.
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By Richard Lewis and Joe Piscopo -
February 11, 2008
By John Zawadzinski -
February 8, 2008
By Leo Carney -
February 8, 2008
By Steve Giegerich and Kristin McKeon Nieto -
February 8, 2008
Good works and good service are the hallmarks of this year’s Family Business of the Year Award winners.
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By John T. Ward, Erik Ortiz, Alexis Crisman, David Chmiel, Christopher Hann, and Pamela Redmond Satran -
February 8, 2008
By John T. Ward and Junot Diaz -
February 8, 2008
By Christopher Hann and Bruce Springsteen -
February 8, 2008
February 8, 2008
What's it Worth... Life in New Jersey
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By Brett Avery -
February 7, 2008
By Christopher Hann -
February 7, 2008
By Michael Moran and Henry Meyer -
February 7, 2008
By Brett Avery and Bruce Springsteen -
February 6, 2008
By Michael Callahan, Antoinette DeNise, David Chmiel, Jeff Pillets, and Rema Rahman -
February 6, 2008
By John T. Ward -
February 6, 2008
By Olga Wickerhauser -
February 6, 2008
By Brett Avery -
February 5, 2008
By Valerie Sinclair -
February 5, 2008
By Kevin Coyne -
February 4, 2008
By Brett Avery -
February 4, 2008
By Peter Golden and Bruce Springsteen -
February 4, 2008
By Teresa Politano -
January 31, 2008
By Thomas F. Gillen -
January 30, 2008
By David Chmiel -
January 29, 2008
From Branch Brook Park to the Ironbound, the “Brick City” renaissance would impress even founding father Robert Treat.
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By Lois Levine -
January 29, 2008
By Robin Amster -
January 29, 2008
By Jennifer Melick -
January 28, 2008
By Denise Di Stephan -
January 28, 2008
By John Emerson -
December 21, 2007
By Eric Levin, Cara Birnabaum, Maureen Fitzgerald, Alexandra Hanson-Harding, Joel Keller, Tracy Leonard, Jennifer Melick, Jen A. Miller, Lauren Murphy, Nicole Pensiero, Valerie Sinclair, Allen St. John, and Jennifer Weiss -
December 21, 2007
By Matt Cheplic -
December 21, 2007
By Michael Callahan, Jennifer Weiss, Bruce Springsteen, and Yogi Berra -
December 20, 2007
We in the Garden State need to start demanding more. Here are a bunch who deliver.
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By Jessica Kitchin -
December 20, 2007
Prudential Financial
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By Eric Levin, Janice Perrone, Terry Golway, Jen A. Miller, Liz George, Paul Drexel, Allen St John, Jason Schwartz, Jennifer Weiss, Merrell Noden, John T. Ward, Carol Weeg, and Jennifer Melick -
December 20, 2007
By Brett Avery -
December 20, 2007
By Lois Levine -
December 20, 2007
We asked more than a dozen people from all walks of life what they like (and dislike) about working in New Jersey. Here’s what they said.
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By Brett Avery -
December 20, 2007
By Peter Golden -
December 20, 2007
Newark native Richard Wesley and his father scrapped over Richard’s post-college career. Now the playwright reflects on what it meant to be young, gifted, and black in the 1960s—and what it means now.
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By Jennifer Melick -
December 20, 2007
Ten years after it opened, Newark’s innovative experiment in cultural and urban redevelopment is thriving.
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By Joel Keller -
December 20, 2007
The state-of-the-art Prudential Center, new home of Devils’ hockey (and more), launches Newark’s ice age.
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By Steve Adubato -
December 20, 2007
By Karen Tina Harrison, Mark Konig, Stan Parish, Mindie Barnett Lichterman, and Rosie Saferstein -
December 19, 2007
Attention, foodies! Add these gustatory bastions and new sensations to your to-do list. Gentlemen, and ladies, start your forks.
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By Joe Piscopo and Joe Piscopo -
December 19, 2007
The funny man reaches out to at-risk Jersey kids with his Positive Impact Foundation
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By Melinda Newman -
December 19, 2007
By Erica Lamberg -
December 19, 2007
By Jennifer Melick -
December 19, 2007
By Jennifer Melick -
December 19, 2007
By Jennifer Melick -
December 19, 2007
By Jennifer Melick -
December 19, 2007
By Deborah P. Carter -
December 19, 2007
By Terry Golway -
December 19, 2007
By Eric Levin and Lois Levine -
December 19, 2007
December 19, 2007
WPLJ’s Brad Blanks—Hannah Montana doppelganger? He looked good, in a freaky sort of way, to a mom and daughter who’ll “Rock” Newark.
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By Eric Levin and Lois Levine -
December 19, 2007
By Terry Golway -
December 19, 2007
By Terry Golway -
December 19, 2007
Justice William Brennan
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By Eric Levin -
December 19, 2007
By Eric Levin -
December 19, 2007
Marion Thompson Wright
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By Seamus McGraw -
December 19, 2007
The shooting of four college friends, three fatally, in Newark last August triggered local finger-pointing, national grandstanding, and a torrent of cries for help. Then a curious thing happened. The rhetoric subsided as city officials and residents began fighting— together—to win back the streets.
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By Jill Hamburg Coplan -
December 19, 2007
By Steve Adubato -
December 19, 2007
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