"But, despite the art scene’s growing visibility, galleries and artists said sales are slow. “We don’t really have collectors that come here and spend the money that they do in New York,” Craig said."

How to do a design project for a city you don't want to visit: just acknowledge that you're doing it for Google Earth, and lay some transparencies on screenshots. Laziness is godliness.

"But about 15 years ago the housing authority, a troubled agency that barely avoided a takeover by the federal government in 2005, leased the gritty three-acre recreation area to a private container storage company. What once was a baseball field is now an expanse littered with shards of glass. And a patch of open space that allowed residents to look out on the river now provides a view of ripped and rusted cargo containers."

Newark Brownfields & Superfund sites.

canal across NJ, 1831-1924

LOC Record. Detail maps of Newark, NYC, Amboy.

good collection of historical maps of Newark NJ

1917 history of Newark NJ