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The Brick City
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The new
Newark Arena for the
New Jersey Devils is under construction. The arena is scheduled to be completed by August of 2007.
Newark recently established a minor league baseball team, the revived
Newark Bears who play at the
Bears And Eagles Riverfront Stadium , a future stop on the
Newark Elizabeth Rail Link . The Bears are part of the independent
Atlantic League , which also has teams in
Atlantic City ,
Bridgewater Township and
Camden .
In
Harrison , across from the Ironbound neighborhood,
Red Bull Park is being built for
Red Bull New York soccer team (formerly
MetroStars ). The stadium should be completed by June 2007, around the same time as the new Devils arena. In the next couple of months, Newark will begin planning a Pedestrian bridge that will link the two cities at Minish Park.
A third sports team to come to Newark, is the professional basketball franchise, the
Newark Express . The Express play their home games at
Essex County College and are part of the reinvented
American Basketball Association .
Newark is a hub of air, road, rail, and ship traffic, making it a significant gateway into the
New York Metropolitan Area and the
Northeastern United States .
Newark Liberty International Airport , the second-busiest airport in the New York region and the fourteenth-busiest in the United States (in terms of passenger traffic), saw nearly 32 million travelers in 2004 and processed nearly 1,000,000 metric tons of freight and mail. Just east of the airport and across the
New Jersey Turnpike 's fifteen lanes of traffic lies
Port Newark , the fifteenth-busiest port in the world and the largest container port on the eastern seaboard. In 2003, the port moved over $100 billion in goods.
The city is served by numerous highways including the New Jersey Turnpike (
Interstate 95 ),
Interstate 280 ,
Interstate 78 , the
Garden State Parkway ,
U.S. Routes 1 &
9 ,
U.S. Route 22 , and
Route 21 . Newark is connected to the
Holland Tunnel and
Lower Manhattan by the
Pulaski Skyway , spanning both the
Passaic and
Hackensack River s.
Local streets in Newark conform to a quasi-grid form, with major streets radiating outward (like spokes on a wheel) from the downtown area. Some major roads in the city are named after the towns to which they lead, including South Orange Avenue, Springfield Avenue, and Bloomfield Avenue. These are some of the oldest roads in the city.
Newark Penn Station , situated just east of downtown, is a major train station for the city and the region, connecting the interurban
PATH system (which links Newark to Manhattan) with three
New Jersey Transit commuter rail lines and
Amtrak service to
Philadelphia and
Washington, D.C. Only a few short blocks away, the
Newark Broad Street Station is served by two commuter rail lines. The two train stations will eventually be linked by the
Newark City Subway , which currently links Newark Penn Station with the city's northern neighborhoods. Built in the bed of the
Morris Canal , it runs underground in the downtown area. The city's third train station,
Newark Liberty International Airport , connects the
Northeast Corridor to the airport via
AirTrain Newark . Bus service in Newark is provided by New Jersey Transit, though it is notoriously slow and unreliable.
The
Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link is a proposed light rail project that will link downtown Newark with neighboring
Elizabeth and Newark Liberty International Airport. The first section of the light rail link, connecting Newark Penn Station with Broad Street Station one mile away, is expected to be complete in the summer of 2006.
Newark is home to seven hospitals, a remarkable number for a city of its size. ''University Hospital'' is the principal teaching hospital of the
New Jersey Medical School and is the busiest Level I trauma center in the state. ''Newark Beth Israel Medical Center'' is the largest hospital in the city and is a part of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, the state's largest system of hospital and health care facilities. Beth Israel is also one of the oldest hospitals in the city, dating back to 1901. This 669-bed regional facility is also home to the ''Children's Hospital of New Jersey''. Other hospitals in Newark include the ''St. James Hospital'', ''St. Michael's Medical Center'', ''Columbus Hospital'', ''Mount Carmel Guild Hospital'', and ''United Hospitals Medical Center''.
