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Newport, Jersey City
Newport is a 600-acre (2.4 km2) master-planned mixed Newport’s approved master Redevelopment Plan con-
use community in Jersey City, New Jersey, consisting of tains an ’as-of-right’ entitlement to build 9,000 units of
retail, residential, office, and entertainment facilities. Lo- residential housing. Newport currently includes 10 high-
cated on Jersey City’s Hudson River waterfront, the new rise rental apartment buildings comprising approximate-
development is located opposite the World Financial ly 4,000 households. Construction of these buildings be-
Center in lower Manhattan. Development of Newport be- gan in 1985. Newport’s 10th rental apartment building,
gan in the 1980s, as a $10 billion project led by Samuel J. "The Aquablu," was completed and occupied in 2009.
LeFrak and his firm, The LeFrak Organization.[1] Newport also includes 3 high-rise condominium apart-
ment buildings comprising approximately 900 additional
Transportation households. Construction of these condominium buildin-
gs began in 1987. The most recent condominium build-
Newport is well-served by transportation links to New ing, known as "The Shore Condominiums at Newport,
York City, including the adjacent Holland Tunnel for ac- North Tower" was completed in 2008. Several adjacent
cess to lower Manhattan, as well as having good connec- residential buildings just south of Thomas Gangemi Drive
tions to the rest of New Jersey via the New Jersey Turn- are often advertised by real estate professionals as being
pike. Public transportation consists of the Hudson-Ber- in Newport, but are actually located outside thereof.
gen Light Rail and the PATH, which has stops in Newport The Residential Buildings within Newport: - John
(Pavonia-Newport and Newport respectively) and a Bil- Adams - George Washington - James Madison - Thomas
lyBey Ferry Company stop in Newport. The area is also Jefferson - James Monroe (condo) - Riverside - Atlantic
served by several New Jersey Transit bus lines as well as - East Hampton - South Hampton - Pacific - Shore Con-
some private bus lines. dominiums, South Tower (condo) - Shore Condominiums,
North Tower (condo) - Aquablu
Retail Shopping and Dining These buildings offer magnificent views of Midtown
and Downtown New York City. Adjacent to these buildin-
Part of the Newport community is the Newport Centre gs is the Newport waterfront, which runs along the Hud-
Mall, a large traditional indoor shopping complex an- son River and offers ferry rides to New York.
chored by Macy’s, JC Penney, Sears and Kohl’s. Outside In addition, the Newport Management also has two
the mall and around the Newport area are a variety of buildings located in Hamilton Park in its Portfolio. They
primarily neighborhood oriented restaurants (known are "The Lincoln" and "The Roosevelt".
collectively as "The Restaurants at Newport") and retail
stores[2] (known collectively as "The Newport River Mar-
ket") including a number of notables such as a Target Hotels
store which opened in 2004,[3] Staples[4] and Best Buy.[5] Newport’s approved master Redevelopment Plan con-
tains an ’as-of-right’ entitlement to build 1,200 hotel
Housing rooms. A 187-room hotel known as the Courtyard by Mar-
riott Jersey City-Newport opened just south of Newport
in 2000. A 429-room full service hotel known as the
Westin Newport, Jersey City opened at the beginning of
2009.[6]
Office Buildings
The "Newport Office Center" consists of 8 buildings
which in total amount to over 5,000,000 square feet
(460,000 m2) of Class A commercial office space. The first
of these buildings, 111 Town Square Place, was built from
the remnants of an abandoned warehouse in 1989 and
contains both office and data centers. The most recent
View of Newport from the Hudson River building, 100 Town Square Place was completed in 2003.
Hundreds of different companies have headquarters or
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back-offices at Newport. These range from transporta-
tion companies such as EVA Air [7] and Jet Airways [8]
to major financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase
which fully occupies two entire buildings in the Newport
Office Center.
Picture gallery
• Newport Rental Apartment Buildings
• Newport/Pavonia PATH Subway Station
• Newport Centre Mall
• "LeFrak Lighthouse" at Newport
• Downtown NYC as seen from Newport Waterfront •
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Newport Ice Skating Rink
References
[1] Weiss, Lois (August 27, 1997). "Newport dream
becoming reality - developer Samuel LeFrak’s
planned Newport community in New Jersey". Real
Estate Weekly. http://www.findarticles.com/p/
articles/mi_m3601/is_n4_v44/ai_19953443.
[2] Martin, Antoinette (August 5, 2007). "How Far to
the Organic Arugula?". The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/realestate/
05njzo.html?ex=1343966400&en=fa97d6119138cb06&ei=5088&part
[3] Scardino, Emily (April 7, 2003). "Target plans
opening near NYC: Greatland would be most
accessible for Manhattanites". DSN Retailing
Today. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/
mi_m0FNP/is_7_42/ai_99982372.
[4] ""Staples - Newport, Jersey City - Yelp"". Yelp.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/staples-jersey-city-2.
[5] ""Best Buy in Newport, Jersey City"".
destinationjerseycity.com.
http://www.destinationjerseycity.com/vendors/
best-buy/.
[6] Clark, Amy Sara (January 28, 2009). "Mayor: High
• hopes for Newport hotel". The Jersey Journal.
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/
index.ssf?/base/news-7/
1233127532204150.xml&coll=3.
[7] "Service Center." EVA AirRetrieved on February 7,
2009.
[8] "Jet Airways Reservation & Ticketing Office in
Newark." Jet Airways. Retrieved on August 10,
2009.
External links
• Newport NJ Official Website of Newport, created and
• updated by its developer.
Coordinates: 40°43′47″N 74°02′11″W / 40.729698°N
74.036350°W / 40.729698; -74.036350
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Categories:
• Neighborhoods in Jersey City, New Jersey
• Transit-oriented developments
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