Brick City Live

02/25/2019

The annual Sustainable Living Empowerment Conference returns to Newark this Spring and is currently accepting applications for sponsors, exhibitors, and volunteers.

02/01/2019

Long considered a political inevitability, it's now a reality.

Sign off: will our former mayor make a good candidate and an effective president?

We already knew he would run, didn't we?

01/23/2019

Seven local young women injected truth into their fiction when writing their collaborative book with the Butterfly Dreamz program. A review of 'The Girls Club Journal: Beauty Unmasked' by Rachel Wagner.

Seven teenagers combined their powers to author a book, The Girls Club Journal: Beauty Unmasked, under the guidance of Newark-based Butterfly Dreamz.

01/21/2019

Dr. King did justice, but do we do justice to Martin Luther King's legacy in our remembrances? Newark-based activist Larry Hamm was featured on MLK episode of Brick City Live contributing writer Manny Faces' award-winning social justice-focused News Beat Podcast.

Larry Hamm: "Why do we have a Dr. King holiday and none of the six books that Martin Luther King wrote are required reading in any public school?"

01/16/2019

The eastern half of Clinton Street is soon to be made over.

Newark’s real estate development trend continues with the announcement of two new “adaptive reuse” projects.

01/11/2019

A group of five investors bought Gateway Center, near the Penn Station rail hub, for about $300 million.

The nascent recovery of Newark, New Jersey, has gotten a boost with a deal to transform an outdated downtown office complex with high-end shopping and lively public spaces.

12/11/2018

Higher buildings around Newark’s Penn Station in the Ironbound? The Newark City Council is considering the MX-3 zoning ordinance for a second time and the council session is underway. Read Miriam Ascarelli's backgrounder on the Ironbound zoning issue.

What should the area around Newark’s Penn Station look like?

12/10/2018

A dispatch from the latest residential ribbon cutting.

A new 37-unit luxury multifamily rental property with storefront commercial space has opened at 15 William Street, at the corner of William and Broad Streets in Newark.

11/26/2018

His work conveyed "life's challenges being pulled, twisted, and reconfigured." His spirit was Gantalism.

You do not have to have known Jerry Gant personally to experience Jerry Gant, but you were in rarefied territory if you did. Remembering the legendary Newark artist.

11/21/2018

What does success in the South Ward mean to you? Have your say November 26th, 27th and December 15th.

Join this series of public meetings to discuss issues affecting the community and schools of the South Ward

11/20/2018

LATEST NEWSLETTER: With Amazon, was losing a win for Newark? - https://mailchi.mp/brickcitylive/walker-house-newark-1433379

11/20/2018

Rachel Wagner contemplates the ways we talk about fear, freedom and social investments while reading Dale Russakoff's book, 'The Prize,' an investigation of Newark Schools, and attending a recent panel at NJPAC that contemplated Newark's next 50 years.