I was on S.19th and Clinton yesterday (don't ask why) but in terms of the south ward I haven't seen much further movement community development or infrastructure.
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Newark’s University Heights Is A Neighborhood In Renaissance
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While Downtown has gotten all the attention as Newark’s hub of commercial redevelopment, University Heights has quietly become one of the city’s hottest up-and-coming residential neighborhoods.
Springfield Avenue has been a particularly active hub for development – a welcome change for a thoroughfare that for much too long wore the scars of the 1967 Newark Riots/Rebellion. Vacant lots, many of them city-owned, blighted the landscape for decades. But like the first springs of new growth after a forest fire, so too is University Heights rising from the ashes.
At the heart of this neighborhood is Tucker Development’s Springfield Avenue Marketplace, which has become a commercial and retail hub for area residents. Located at the corner of Jones and Springfield, the 11-acre, $94 million complex is the largest new mixed-use development in Newark. Its anchor, a ShopRite supermarket, is a welcome addition to what had previously been a food desert. Springfield Avenue Marketplace also includes 125,000 sq. ft. of retail, as well as 24 Jones, the area’s first market-rate apartment complex in many years. Residents can also enjoy first-run films at Cityplex 12, a movie theater owned by NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.
Other exciting mixed-use projects currently in planning or underway include:
24 Jones | Credit: Tucker Development
24 Jones, which has recently reached 80% leasing capacity, caters to young professionals with studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments in a location convenient to Newark Penn Station, NJ Transit bus and train lines, the light rail, and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Amenities include a 24-hour concierge, state-of-the-art fitness center, a residents’ lounge, bike storage, covered parking, and numerous common areas equipped with flat-screen TVs.
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Newark's University Heights Is A Neighborhood In Renaissance | Jersey Digs
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February 21, 2017
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University Heights in bloom | via Facebook
While Downtown has gotten all the attention as Newark’s hub of commercial redevelopment, University Heights has quietly become one of the city’s hottest up-and-coming residential neighborhoods.
Springfield Avenue has been a particularly active hub for development – a welcome change for a thoroughfare that for much too long wore the scars of the 1967 Newark Riots/Rebellion. Vacant lots, many of them city-owned, blighted the landscape for decades. But like the first springs of new growth after a forest fire, so too is University Heights rising from the ashes.
At the heart of this neighborhood is Tucker Development’s Springfield Avenue Marketplace, which has become a commercial and retail hub for area residents. Located at the corner of Jones and Springfield, the 11-acre, $94 million complex is the largest new mixed-use development in Newark. Its anchor, a ShopRite supermarket, is a welcome addition to what had previously been a food desert. Springfield Avenue Marketplace also includes 125,000 sq. ft. of retail, as well as 24 Jones, the area’s first market-rate apartment complex in many years. Residents can also enjoy first-run films at Cityplex 12, a movie theater owned by NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.
Other exciting mixed-use projects currently in planning or underway include:
- 457 Springfield, the former site of the Laurel Garden Sports Arena, where 30 apartments will sit atop 15,000 sq. ft. of retail and commercial space in a three-story building,
- 269-273 Springfield, with 77 apartments above retail space on four floors, and
- 521 Springfield, where the non-profit Randy Foye Foundation will share a footprint with 122 apartments.
24 Jones | Credit: Tucker Development
24 Jones, which has recently reached 80% leasing capacity, caters to young professionals with studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments in a location convenient to Newark Penn Station, NJ Transit bus and train lines, the light rail, and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Amenities include a 24-hour concierge, state-of-the-art fitness center, a residents’ lounge, bike storage, covered parking, and numerous common areas equipped with flat-screen TVs.
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I know the old abandoned bank on Clinton ave is being turned into a housing complex named after Nina Simone. They're trying to turn Clinton ave (from where Kings is at all the way down to Lincoln park) into the art district.
Yea they are building loft apartment complex across the street where I live, it was an empty lot for years too. There is an abandoned house right next where I live but I hope is refurbished and turned into a shelter for the homeless, that's one of the big things that needs to be addressed.
Whole Foods opened today:
Sneak peek: Newark's Whole Foods opening Wednesday
I saw a whole bunch of people walking with Whole Foods bags downtown,
definitely not the same downtown I remember growing up
Sneak peek: Newark's Whole Foods opening Wednesday
I saw a whole bunch of people walking with Whole Foods bags downtown,
definitely not the same downtown I remember growing up
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Whole Foods opened today:
Sneak peek: Newark's Whole Foods opening Wednesday
I saw a whole bunch of people walking with Whole Foods bags downtown,
Yea I'm going to try and head down there this week. My wife told me she had stopped by there today on her lunch break.
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Of course lol, but the area surrounding both Military and Washington Parks are bustling with development. There wasn't much restaurants or stores back then, but now it's crazy to me. Newark will always have it's identity I don't think all this development will change that, more likely more people from NYC or Jersey City priced out will be coming as a result though.
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At Whole Foods' Newark opening, organic smiles to go with the food
A breaking bread store opening ceremony with Mayor Ras Baraka as Whole Foods opened a new 29,000 square foot store in Newark, NJ. 3/1/17 (Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
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NEWARK -- Cheerful looks were on the faces of the cashiers, clerks, butchers and shoppers as Newark's long-awaited Whole Foods supermarket opened for business Wednesday morning.
There were organic smiles to go with the food, as proud employees eager to make positive first impressions asked customers how they could help them and, if needed, escorted them to the proper aisle.
"Did you enjoy your visit?" Lanaja Creamer asked from behind her checkout counter, with a grin warm enough to melt the frozen foods section (all the way back in aisle B).
The shopper, Dale Colston, smiled back and said she had, placing her Thai shrimp salad ($10.99), and mini key lime cheesecake ($2.99), on the conveyor to be rung up.
"I came to buy lunch, and I'll be here," said Colston, the principal librarian at the Newark Public Library.
Colston, who had grabbed a press release about the new store for the library's records, had just attended a grand opening ceremony where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Whole Foods northeast regional vice president Christina Minardi broke bread together in a company tradition at store openings.
"This is my 40th store opening, and I have never seen a crowd like this," Minardi, who lives in Wayne, told several hundred shoppers, employees and officials.
After years of planning and construction that dates back to the administration of former mayor and now U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, the crowd gathered in the atrium of the Hahne & Company mixed-use complex on Broad Street.
The Hahne project by L&M Development Partners includes Whole Foods and other businesses, as well as a Rutgers arts center and 160 market-rate and affordable apartments, all occupying what was once Newark's preeminent department store.
"This is an example of what we need in Newark and how the city is growing," said Baraka, who thanked Whole Foods for "getting us in the game" by offering a high-end grocery offering.
Sneak peek: Newark's Whole Foods opening Wednesday
Look inside the long-anticipated high-end supermarket opening in Newark's revitalized Hahne's building.
Charles Smith is one of the many Newark residents filling the 145 news jobs at Whole Foods. The $12.50 an hour that Smith is paid isn't the most he's ever made, "but it's fine," he said, especially with the health benefits he receives, and his 20 percent discount on food.
"Growing up, I really didn't eat too healthy, well, I didn't really eat too healthy foods," said Smith, 30, who works in the produce department. "So, this is helping me with that."
Another Newark resident, Daryl Johnson, was in the atrium listening to the ceremony just before the store's 8:30 a.m. opening, gripping his red shopping cart.
"I'm ready to shop," said Johnson, 55, adding that the Newark store will save him regular trips to Montclair, where for years he had shopped at the Whole Foods there.
"Now I can walk to Whole Foods," said Johnson, who is on disability, and wore a brace on his right wrist.
Shoppers filing into the store found a receiving line of beaming Whole Foods employees who applauded as they walked by, past the checkout counters and a refrigerated bin containing last-minute staples by Whole Foods' 365 Everday Value brand. They included cartons of a dozen large brown cage-free eggs for $2.99; sticks of "grade AA" salted and unsalted butter for $3.49 a pound; and whole and reduced fat milk.
At the meat and seafood counter, the double-cut, bone-in ribeye steaks were a carnivore's bargain at $8.99 a pound, while around the corner at the bakery section, .40-pound cups of rice pudding ($4.59) were labelled "vegan."
In aisle H, clerk John Werts was assisting shoppers and checking on the cereal, juice, cookies and soda.
There were cartons of Coco Libre organic coconut milk, at $4.99 for 33.8 ounces on sale at 2 cartons for $7; and Canadian Farm Organic brand's Honey Nut O's cereal, at $4.49 for an 9.5-ounce box, also on sale at 2 boxes for $7.
Werts had worked for three years at the West Orange Whole Foods store, and was among several veteran employees moved to Newark to set an example for workers new the company's customer-relations culture.
"You start to build relationships with the customers after a while: 'Anybody seen John?'" said Werts, who lives in Irvington. "That's one of the best things about working at Whole Foods. Makes you feel good about working here."
A breaking bread store opening ceremony with Mayor Ras Baraka as Whole Foods opened a new 29,000 square foot store in Newark, NJ. 3/1/17 (Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
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on March 01, 2017 at 1:03 PM, updated March 01, 2017 at 1:57 PM
NEWARK -- Cheerful looks were on the faces of the cashiers, clerks, butchers and shoppers as Newark's long-awaited Whole Foods supermarket opened for business Wednesday morning.
There were organic smiles to go with the food, as proud employees eager to make positive first impressions asked customers how they could help them and, if needed, escorted them to the proper aisle.
"Did you enjoy your visit?" Lanaja Creamer asked from behind her checkout counter, with a grin warm enough to melt the frozen foods section (all the way back in aisle B).
The shopper, Dale Colston, smiled back and said she had, placing her Thai shrimp salad ($10.99), and mini key lime cheesecake ($2.99), on the conveyor to be rung up.
"I came to buy lunch, and I'll be here," said Colston, the principal librarian at the Newark Public Library.
Colston, who had grabbed a press release about the new store for the library's records, had just attended a grand opening ceremony where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Whole Foods northeast regional vice president Christina Minardi broke bread together in a company tradition at store openings.
"This is my 40th store opening, and I have never seen a crowd like this," Minardi, who lives in Wayne, told several hundred shoppers, employees and officials.
After years of planning and construction that dates back to the administration of former mayor and now U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, the crowd gathered in the atrium of the Hahne & Company mixed-use complex on Broad Street.
The Hahne project by L&M Development Partners includes Whole Foods and other businesses, as well as a Rutgers arts center and 160 market-rate and affordable apartments, all occupying what was once Newark's preeminent department store.
"This is an example of what we need in Newark and how the city is growing," said Baraka, who thanked Whole Foods for "getting us in the game" by offering a high-end grocery offering.
Sneak peek: Newark's Whole Foods opening Wednesday
Look inside the long-anticipated high-end supermarket opening in Newark's revitalized Hahne's building.
Charles Smith is one of the many Newark residents filling the 145 news jobs at Whole Foods. The $12.50 an hour that Smith is paid isn't the most he's ever made, "but it's fine," he said, especially with the health benefits he receives, and his 20 percent discount on food.
"Growing up, I really didn't eat too healthy, well, I didn't really eat too healthy foods," said Smith, 30, who works in the produce department. "So, this is helping me with that."
Another Newark resident, Daryl Johnson, was in the atrium listening to the ceremony just before the store's 8:30 a.m. opening, gripping his red shopping cart.
"I'm ready to shop," said Johnson, 55, adding that the Newark store will save him regular trips to Montclair, where for years he had shopped at the Whole Foods there.
"Now I can walk to Whole Foods," said Johnson, who is on disability, and wore a brace on his right wrist.
Shoppers filing into the store found a receiving line of beaming Whole Foods employees who applauded as they walked by, past the checkout counters and a refrigerated bin containing last-minute staples by Whole Foods' 365 Everday Value brand. They included cartons of a dozen large brown cage-free eggs for $2.99; sticks of "grade AA" salted and unsalted butter for $3.49 a pound; and whole and reduced fat milk.
At the meat and seafood counter, the double-cut, bone-in ribeye steaks were a carnivore's bargain at $8.99 a pound, while around the corner at the bakery section, .40-pound cups of rice pudding ($4.59) were labelled "vegan."
In aisle H, clerk John Werts was assisting shoppers and checking on the cereal, juice, cookies and soda.
There were cartons of Coco Libre organic coconut milk, at $4.99 for 33.8 ounces on sale at 2 cartons for $7; and Canadian Farm Organic brand's Honey Nut O's cereal, at $4.49 for an 9.5-ounce box, also on sale at 2 boxes for $7.
Werts had worked for three years at the West Orange Whole Foods store, and was among several veteran employees moved to Newark to set an example for workers new the company's customer-relations culture.
"You start to build relationships with the customers after a while: 'Anybody seen John?'" said Werts, who lives in Irvington. "That's one of the best things about working at Whole Foods. Makes you feel good about working here."
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Downtown has come a long way from the days of chilling at the arcade and stickup kids getting at you on broad and market
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Yea Newark will always be Newark regardless. That's what I've always loved about my city, no matter what, we never conformed and stay true to our nature. Anywhere you go, you can always pick a Newark person out.
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Interesting NY Times article on the tale of 2 cities, in reference to the Ironbound section (Down Neck)
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He was less ambivalent about projects to extend Riverfront Park, which connects downtown Newark and the Ironbound to the Passaic River, and to revive Ironbound Stadium, a beloved sports field that was contaminated by chemicals from a plastics plant and has been closed for 30 years.
“Whatever changes are coming, we don’t want to lose the character of the community,” said Augusto Amador, the Municipal Council member for the East Ward, which includes the Ironbound. “Anything that will be done will be done with that in mind.”
What You’ll Find
The Ironbound is defined by Newark Penn Station and Amtrak train tracks to the west, the Passaic River to the north, U.S. Route 1-9 to the east and Interstate 78 to the south. Real estate brokers often distinguish between “north Ironbound,” considered desirable because it’s near the long commercial corridor of Ferry Street, and “south Ironbound,” which is more industrial. Michael Rosa, an owner-broker with the Rosa Agency, which has an office in the Ironbound, described a typical home as an early 1900s multifamily house on a 25-by-100-foot lot, usually without a driveway.
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According to the real estate website Trulia, the median sales price of homes in north Ironbound as of January was $215,000, a 22 percent decrease from the previous 12 months, based on 169 properties sold.
Fifty-three homes throughout the Ironbound were advertised on Coldwell Banker’s website on Feb. 25. They included a five-bedroom, two-family fixer-upper at 62 Vincent Street, priced at $129,900, and a six-bedroom, three-family house at 126 Union Street, priced at $609,000.
About 70 percent of residents are renters, and many units are in multifamily homes. But upscale apartments are more common, Mr. Rosa said, as developers seek to attract affluent tenants to the neighborhood. A two-bedroom unit with hardwood floors and decorative kitchen tiles, for example, was recently leased in a 2015 building on Polk Street, for $2,000 a month. Though that price is high for the Ironbound, where comparably sized apartments average $1,200, such spaces don’t remain on the market for long, Mr. Rosa said. And their popularity is causing rents to rise over all.
The Vibe
Filigreed gold jewelry, soccer jerseys and cases of the Portuguese water Carvalhelhos enliven shop windows along Ferry Street. On a recent afternoon, Seabra’s Marisqueira restaurant at 87 Madison Street was crowded with devourers of cockles bathed in garlic sauce and grilled lobster stuffed with crab meat. The general manager, Mario Martins, who immigrated from Portugal more than two decades ago, said customers flock from many places beyond Newark and sometimes drop in between flights at Newark Airport.
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The Schools
Since 2014, the controversial One Newark program has allowed families to apply to public and charter schools anywhere in the city. Among several neighborhood options is Oliver Street School, a public school at 86 Oliver Street that serves 1,020 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade. On 2014-15 state tests, the last for which information is available, 30 percent of students met standards in English versus 51 percent statewide; 27 percent met standards in math versus 39 percent statewide. In 2016, the school moved to a $73 million building.
Lafayette Street School, a public school at 205 Lafayette Street, with a concentration on performing arts and justice, serves 1,200 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade. Forty-two percent of students met standards in English; 39 percent met standards in math.
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East Side High School, a public school at 238 Van Buren Street, serves 2,100 students, Grades 9 through 12. The 2014-15 SAT scores were 374 reading, 404 math and 381 writing, versus 496, 518 and 494 statewide.
Ironbound Catholic Academy at 366 East Kinney Street, created in 2005 through the merger of three Catholic schools, serves 170 students, kindergarten through eighth grade. The tuition is $4,100 a year.
The Commute
From Newark Penn Station, the trip on New Jersey Transit rail to Pennsylvania Station in New York takes 18 to 27 minutes and is $5.25; a monthly pass is $152.
The History
Named for the rail tracks or forges that surrounded the neighborhood, the Ironbound is also called Down Neck because of its site on a bend of the Passaic River. Starting in the 1830s, the area became a center for tanning, brewing and dye production. In the early 20th century, Portuguese and Spaniards began to arrive, as did African-Americans. Two out of three of the Ironbound’s current 50,000 residents were born outside of the United States.
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In 2014, when Steven Kern moved to Newark to run the Newark Museum, he and his wife settled in a downtown loft. In July, the couple moved three blocks east to another country: the city neighborhood called the Ironbound.
Four square miles populated in large part by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American immigrants and their descendants, the Ironbound has the intimacy and hustle of a European market town. “We walk to the bakery, the fishmonger, the wine store,” said Mr. Kern, 58, the museum’s director. (He also walks to work.) “It really is an extraordinarily agreeable lifestyle.”
The couple rented a two-bedroom apartment on Bruen Street, above the office of the architects who designed the six-year-old building. They pay about $2,500 a month for their unit, which has a large roof deck and ample studio space for Ms. Nieuwenhuis. Newark Penn Station, a hub for trains, buses, a light rail and a monorail to Newark Liberty International Airport, is three blocks away. “If I have to fly to the West Coast,” Mr. Kern said, “I’m at the gate 30 minutes after I leave my apartment.”
The Ironbound has long been appreciated for its convenience and culture, not to mention its 200-odd restaurants. Now residents are poised to take advantage of improvements to downtown Newark, as well. In January, Mayor Ras J. Baraka unveiled the $110 million Mulberry Commons project, which will develop 22 acres between the central business district and the Ironbound with housing, a commercial center and a three-acre park. The two neighborhoods will be linked by a pedestrian bridge over a highway.
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Joseph Della Fave, the executive director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, said 800 units of mostly unbuilt market-rate housing had been approved for the neighborhood in the past few years. He described development as “a double-edged sword,” which threatens to raise home prices beyond the reach of many residents. His organization is pushing for an ordinance that guarantees 20 percent affordable housing in buildings with 30 or more units.
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He was less ambivalent about projects to extend Riverfront Park, which connects downtown Newark and the Ironbound to the Passaic River, and to revive Ironbound Stadium, a beloved sports field that was contaminated by chemicals from a plastics plant and has been closed for 30 years.
“Whatever changes are coming, we don’t want to lose the character of the community,” said Augusto Amador, the Municipal Council member for the East Ward, which includes the Ironbound. “Anything that will be done will be done with that in mind.”
What You’ll Find
The Ironbound is defined by Newark Penn Station and Amtrak train tracks to the west, the Passaic River to the north, U.S. Route 1-9 to the east and Interstate 78 to the south. Real estate brokers often distinguish between “north Ironbound,” considered desirable because it’s near the long commercial corridor of Ferry Street, and “south Ironbound,” which is more industrial. Michael Rosa, an owner-broker with the Rosa Agency, which has an office in the Ironbound, described a typical home as an early 1900s multifamily house on a 25-by-100-foot lot, usually without a driveway.
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Harrison
280
21
MARKET ST.
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Newark Penn Station
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St. Stephan’s
Grace Community Church
MCCARTER HWY.
Oliver Street Elementary School
IRONBOUND
DISTRICT
WILSON AVE.
21
Passaic R.
95
78
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According to the real estate website Trulia, the median sales price of homes in north Ironbound as of January was $215,000, a 22 percent decrease from the previous 12 months, based on 169 properties sold.
Fifty-three homes throughout the Ironbound were advertised on Coldwell Banker’s website on Feb. 25. They included a five-bedroom, two-family fixer-upper at 62 Vincent Street, priced at $129,900, and a six-bedroom, three-family house at 126 Union Street, priced at $609,000.
About 70 percent of residents are renters, and many units are in multifamily homes. But upscale apartments are more common, Mr. Rosa said, as developers seek to attract affluent tenants to the neighborhood. A two-bedroom unit with hardwood floors and decorative kitchen tiles, for example, was recently leased in a 2015 building on Polk Street, for $2,000 a month. Though that price is high for the Ironbound, where comparably sized apartments average $1,200, such spaces don’t remain on the market for long, Mr. Rosa said. And their popularity is causing rents to rise over all.
The Vibe
Filigreed gold jewelry, soccer jerseys and cases of the Portuguese water Carvalhelhos enliven shop windows along Ferry Street. On a recent afternoon, Seabra’s Marisqueira restaurant at 87 Madison Street was crowded with devourers of cockles bathed in garlic sauce and grilled lobster stuffed with crab meat. The general manager, Mario Martins, who immigrated from Portugal more than two decades ago, said customers flock from many places beyond Newark and sometimes drop in between flights at Newark Airport.
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The Schools
Since 2014, the controversial One Newark program has allowed families to apply to public and charter schools anywhere in the city. Among several neighborhood options is Oliver Street School, a public school at 86 Oliver Street that serves 1,020 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade. On 2014-15 state tests, the last for which information is available, 30 percent of students met standards in English versus 51 percent statewide; 27 percent met standards in math versus 39 percent statewide. In 2016, the school moved to a $73 million building.
Lafayette Street School, a public school at 205 Lafayette Street, with a concentration on performing arts and justice, serves 1,200 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade. Forty-two percent of students met standards in English; 39 percent met standards in math.
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East Side High School, a public school at 238 Van Buren Street, serves 2,100 students, Grades 9 through 12. The 2014-15 SAT scores were 374 reading, 404 math and 381 writing, versus 496, 518 and 494 statewide.
Ironbound Catholic Academy at 366 East Kinney Street, created in 2005 through the merger of three Catholic schools, serves 170 students, kindergarten through eighth grade. The tuition is $4,100 a year.
The Commute
From Newark Penn Station, the trip on New Jersey Transit rail to Pennsylvania Station in New York takes 18 to 27 minutes and is $5.25; a monthly pass is $152.
The History
Named for the rail tracks or forges that surrounded the neighborhood, the Ironbound is also called Down Neck because of its site on a bend of the Passaic River. Starting in the 1830s, the area became a center for tanning, brewing and dye production. In the early 20th century, Portuguese and Spaniards began to arrive, as did African-Americans. Two out of three of the Ironbound’s current 50,000 residents were born outside of the United States.
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