ECC graduation scenes
What a cool venue for a graduation ceremony.
Cherry Blossom Photos
Newarker Adam Dunko shares his photo from Branch Brook Park’s cherry blossoms. Got some photos of Newark you’d like to share? Give us a shout: editor@dailynewarker.com.
Gallery Aferro Shows
Craig at Newark USA photoblogs a visit to Gallery Aferro, here in Newark. Aferro has three shows going on right now, which opened on April 19: Theory and Practice, If So, Then So!, and Networked. Definitely worth a look.
For more information, check out Aferro’s site, Gallery Aferro: Current Exhibitions.
The Newark Arts Festival took place last weekend. We headed over after walking through the Portugal Day festival across town in the Ironbound.
The atmosphere was not surprisingly (but nonetheless jarringly) cool and casual compared to the raucous outdoor club scene on Ferry Street. My wife and I walked across from the Washington Street [...]
This week’s Flickr Friday photo comes again from Flickr user Nudnik N Da Hood. This photo features a mounted Newark policeman and his horse. The mounted patrol, which was once disbanded in the late ‘70s due to department-wide layoffs, was reinstated in 1989 to patrol downtown Newark.
Jeff Bennett, owner of Newarkology—a site focused [...]
This week’s Flickr Friday photo comes from Flickr user Nudnik N Da Hood. This photo features the historic Essex County Courthouse and the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln. The courthouse was designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert (who also designed the United States Supreme Court Building) and was dedicated in 1907.
To find out [...]
Today’s Flickr Friday photo comes from Flickr user t3h_sw3d3, whose photo of the Industrial sunset we featured a few weeks back. This photo was taken at the Maas & Waldstein complex in Newark.
Here’s hoping that, as Booker’s administration starts to curb crime in the city, that rampant graffiti in the city will start to [...]
Today’s Flickr Friday photo comes from Flickr user paytonc, who blogs at West North. This photo has a number of notes on it to indicate places of interest, like Newark Penn Station and Branch Brook Park. Click the photo to get to the Flickr page and hold your mouse cursor over the photo [...]
Today’s gorgeous Flickr Friday photo comes from Flickr user drp, a graphic designer from Belleville, New Jersey—just north of the city. This photo was taken in Newark’s own Branch Brook Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (who also designed New York’s Central Park). The park’s cherry trees rival Washington D.C. in [...]
Today’s Flickr Friday comes from, well, me. Last weekend’s Portugal Day celebration was a blast. Here’s one of the many crowd shots we took that day.
Portugal Day marks the death of Portuguese national icon Luís de Camões, who is considered Portugal’s greatest poet. More information is available on the Wikipedia. [...]