Tearing down a fortress in Newark to make way for a new beginning | Jordan on Business
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John Saraceno, CEO, Onyx Equities, Gateway Center, Newark, NJ. 3/2/2021Steve Hockstein | For NJ Advance Media
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Newark has struggled to overcome decades of bad urban planning decisions that destroyed whole neighborhoods and wiped out commercial activity. Fixing those bad choices has been a focal point over the years to rejuvenate New Jersey’s largest city.
None of those bad ideas was worse than the construction of the fortress-style downtown Gateway Center office towers. Started a few years after the 1967 Newark riots, the four buildings are connected to Newark Penn Station and one another by skywalks designed to keep office workers off the streets below. The lack of street-level entrances discouraged outsiders from entry and parking decks walled off access to the waterfront.
Jo Koy is coming to Radio City Music Hall and Kings Theatre this fall | How to get tickets
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Comedian Jo Koy performs at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Oct. 19, 2019. (Dr. Gracelyn Santos/Staten Island Advance)
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“Just Kidding World Tour,” which were canceled because of health concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jo Koy rose to fame with his four highly rated and successful comedy specials on Comedy Central and Netflix. His 2019 Netflix special, Comin’ In Hot is currently streaming worldwide. Koy is on a mission to educate the masses on how to raise a millennial, the intricacies of Filipino traditions, and more!
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From the founding of Lawrence University to President Mark Burstein, the university has largely consisted of a white administration. Lawrence University was founded by Amos A. Lawrence, a wealthy merchant from Groton, Massachusetts, about 35 miles northwest of Boston. Amos was a descendant of John Lawrence, who was the first of the family to arrive in America from England in 1635 and later helped establish the town of Groton in 1660. More than a century later, Samuel Lawrence, a descendant of John Lawrence, established an academy in Groton, which is now called the Lawrence Academy at Groton. Samuel had five sons, one of whom was Amos. Amos became a successful businessman and distributed a large amount of his wealth to multiple causes, including the colonization of American Negroes in Liberia, the founding of Kansas State University and organizing regiments in the Civil War. Amos sought to use his wealth to improve his neighborhood and better the lives of those around him.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (April 7, 2021)
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♦ The Morris Museum at 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morristown will feature figurative and kinetic metal sculptures in a group exhibit titled “Natural Essence Motion Perceived” opening Saturday, April 10, and running through Aug. 15.
Featured in the show will be Brooklyn artist Alexandra Limpert, who crafts life-size-and-larger human figures and other life forms in steel. Her works include insects with moving wings, reptiles climbing the walls with clingy claws and human anatomy depictions. Other artists exhibiting will be Gianluca Bianchino, Sui Park and Rein Triefeldt.