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Newark Airport, opened in 1928, was the first large commercial airport in the United States, and the first to serve the New York metropolitan area. It was also the busiest airport in the world from 1930-1939. The three buildings recognized by the…

A subsidiary of the Consolidated Tractor Company.

Pennsylvania Railroad Newark Station is one of the last major works of McKim, Mead & White. The complex is the major intermodal transportation facility of Newark that connects the city regionally. It is located between the Ironbound and CBD…

Formerly located at the corner of Raymond Plaza West & Market Street.

The theater first opened in January, 1912 as the Shubert Theatre. In 1913, it was renamed Payton's Theatre, and then Keeney's Theatre. It became Adams Theatre in 1931.

The Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments consist of three 22-story tall slabs occupying the edges of a large superblock bounded by Branch Brook Park, Broad Street, and Route 280. These buildings, part of a Redevelopment Plan for Newark , provide a…

St. James Apartments is a high rise building. It has a total of 199 units, 40 of which are Section 8 assisted living units.

Seth Boyden Terrace is a public housing project made up of 12 buildings.

New Hope Village is an affordable housing high-rise apartment building.

Formerly located at corner of South Orange Avenue & Munn Avenue.

Millard E. Terrell Homes is a three-story, 275-apartment public housing structure that opened in 1946 in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood. The structure was originally named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Homes, but was renamed after its opening for an…

The complex is named after John W Hyatt, a prominent Newark industrialist and inventor of the mid-20th century.

James C. White Manor is a senior housing development that was constructed in 1976. There are 206 units ranging in size from one bedroom to two bedrooms.

Felix Fuld Court consists of eight, 3-story residential buildings, and a ninth building that is a central heating plant.

The Christopher Columbus Homes were a public housing complex located between High Street and Eighth Avenue, on the same superblock as the Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments. The complex, part of a Redevelopment Plan, was composed of eight 13-story…

The Brick Towers was a public housing complex that consisted of twin 16-story buildings.

Baxter Terrace was one of the early public housing complexes developed by the Newark Housing Authority in 1941. It was known as the James M. Baxter Housing Development and named after the first African-American principal in the Newark school system.