List of tallest buildings in Newark

Downtown Newark from Harrison

Newark, the largest city in New Jersey and second largest in New York metropolitan area, is one of the United States' major air, shipping, and rail hubs. It has a distinctive skyline, though shorter than that of much larger New York City and slightly smaller Jersey City. Since the mid-2000s numerous buildings have been re-lit and made more prominent.[1] Newark was founded in 1666, and its downtown grew around the site of the early settlement at Four Corners. Early highrises were developed there and at Military Park during the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties. In the New Newark era[2] (1950s-1970s) modernist buildings went up, particularly around Washington Park. In the post-industrial-high tech era, development has been concentrated in the Gateway District near Penn Station. Clusters of residential highrises (not included in this list) are found throughout the city, particularly near Weequahic Park and Branch Brook Park. Three ZMPC Super-Post-Panamax container cranes each measuring 561 ft (171 m) at Port Newark are the tallest structures in the city.[3][4]

Tallest buildings

View of Newark looking northwest
Tallest buildings: Eleven80, National Newark, and Prudential Plaza
View to Gateway District
Newark Airport
Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart
From left: 550 Broad, New Jersey Bell, Mutual Benefit Life, and American Insurance Company buildings.
550 Broad, NJ Bell, Mutual Benefit
Rank Name image Height
ft / m		 Floors Year Notes
1 National Newark Building 465 ft (142 m) 34 1931 Tallest building since its completion in 1931.[5][6][7]
2 Eleven 80 448 / 137 35 1930 Tallest building from 1930 to 1931. Tallest residential building in the city.[8][9]
3 Prudential Plaza Building 374 / 114 24 1960 [10][11]
4 80 Park Plaza
PSEG Headquarters		 360 / 110 26 1980 [12][13]
5 1 Gateway Center 359 / 109 30 1971 [14][15]
6 Zion Towers 351 ft (107 m) 28 1969 [16]
7 Newark Legal Center 329 / 100 20 2000 [17][18]

[19]

8= 1 Newark Center
Seton Hall University School of Law		 326 / 99 22 1992 [20][21]
8= American Insurance Company Building 326 / 99 16 1930 [22][23]
8= Airport Traffic Control Tower
Newark Liberty International Airport		 325 / 99 2002 [24]
11 Carmel Towers 313 feet (95 m) 25 1970 [25]
12 Prudential Tower 313 feet (95 m) 20 2014 (topped out) [26][27][28][29]
13 Prudential Building 300 feet (91 m) 21 1942 [30][31]
1 Rector Street 296.1 feet (90.3 m) 23 2018 [32][33][34][35][36]
14 Penn Plaza East
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey		 292 ft (89 m) (estimated) 21 1993 [37]

[38] [39]

15 One Theater Square 283.23 ft (86.33 m) 22 2018
16 Two Gateway Center 272 / 83 18 1972 [40][41]
17 Military Park Building 265 / 81 21 1926 Tallest building upon its completion in 1926 to 1930[42][43]
18= New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building 260 / 79 20 1929 [44][45][46]
18= 24 Commerce Street 260 / 79 19 1926 [47][48]
19 Dr. Stanley S. Bergen Bldg
New Jersey Medical School		 255 / 78 16 1954 [49][50][51]
20 33 Washington Street 251 / 77 20 1971 [52]
21= Mutual Benefit Life Building 246 ft (75 m) 20 1957 [53]
21= 1 Washington Park
Rutgers Business School		 246 ft (75 m) 18 1983 [54][55][56][57]
22 550 Broad Street 243 ft (74 m) 19 1966 [58][59][60]
23 Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart 232 ft (71 m) (towers) n/a 1954 [61]
24 Bamberger's 226 /69
(roof)		 14 1923 Tallest building after expansion in 1923[62]

,[63] now

Peter W. Rodino Federal Building 220 ft (67 m) 16 1967 [64][65][66]
Gibraltar Building 220 ft (67 m) 14 1927 [67][68][69]
Firemen's Insurance Company Building (Newark) 220 ft (67 m) 19 1910 Tallest building upon its completion in 1910[70][71]
Griffith Building 210 ft (64 m) 15 1927
155 Washington 210 ft (64 m) 18 1930 [72][73]

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Timeline of tallest buildings since 1868

Prudential Home Office (1956)
Bambergers 1923 building was originally adorned with WWOR-TV's radio tower

This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Newark.

Name Street address Year built Height
ft / m		 Floors Notes
North Reformed Church 1868 185 / 50 [74]
Prudential Main Building Broad Street 1892 150 / 46 11 demolished in 1956[75]
Fireman's Insurance Company Building 280 Broad Street 1910 220 / 67 19 [76][77][78]
Bamberger's 131 Broad Street 1923 226/69 14 [79]
Military Park Building60 Park Place1926265 / 8121[43]
Eleven 801180 Raymond Boulevard1930448 / 13735[9]
National Newark Building744 Broad Street1931465 / 14234[6]

Proposed and under construction

Grant USA Tower would have been the tallest building in the United States had it been built. This lists buildings that are proposed for construction.[80] In 2014, three ZMPC Super-Post-Panamax container cranes each measuring 561 ft (171 m) were assembled at Port Newark.[3][4]

Name image Height
m/ft		 Floors Year Notes
Alexa 19 2018 (approved) [81]
Westinghouse site 25 2018 (proposed) SJP Real Estate/Aetna[82][83]
777 McCarter Highway 33 2018 (proposed) [84] [85]
56 Park Place 26 2018 (proposed) [86][87]

See also

Panorama

Panorama of Newark from the Passaic River. Buildings at center are clustered around Washington Park

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References

General
Specific
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  2. ↑ "CITIES: The New Newark". Time. 1957-10-21.
  3. 1 2 Alarcon, Paul (May 18, 2014). "Behemoth ship carrying massive cranes for future of shipping industry to pass through Bayonne waters". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
  4. 1 2 "New shipping cranes arrive at Port Newark". The Record. May 19, 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-16.
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  6. 1 2 "National Newark Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
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  9. 1 2 "Eleven 80". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
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  18. ↑ Kennedy, Shawn G. (1990-01-31). "Real Estate - An Addition To Newark's Downtown". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
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  22. ↑ "American Insurance Company Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
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  34. ↑ Munson, John (September 27, 2013). "Shaq comes back to Newark to break ground for city's first high-rise apartment in more than 50 years". The Star-Ledger.
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  42. 1 2 "Military Park Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
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  56. ↑ One Wash.com
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  62. ↑ Newark Landmarks website Archived 2010-06-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  63. ↑ Emporis: Peter Rodino Building
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  65. ↑ +C+.com: Rodino Federal Office Building Archived 2010-08-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  66. ↑ New York Times: New Life Awaits Building Saved in Heart of-Newark, January 1, 1987
  67. ↑ Emporis: Gibraltar Building
  68. ↑ Hartz Mountain Developments: Gibraltar Building Archived 2010-06-08 at the Wayback Machine.
  69. ↑ Emporis: Fireman's Insurance Company Building
  70. ↑ New York Times
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