Mayor Cory Booker gave his State of the City address on 7 Feb, 2008. Highlighting Newark's achievements in a year of challenges, Booker described a plan to help Newark families, improve public safety, and continue to drive economic development.
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Portugal Day is celebrated annually in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark. Drawing crowds of up to a quarter-million people over a weekend, the street festival typically runs along 17 city blocks. Visitors can enjoy Portuguese food, drink, music, dance and arts and crafts at the street fair, which runs East from Newark Penn Station along Ferry Street.
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Newark Arts Festival took place over in the neighborhood of Halsey Village between Washington Street and New Street on June 9th 2007. This festival had a lot of big names behind it—27Mix, Newark Museum, the Aljira and RedSaw Art Galleries, Verizon, Prudential Financial, Star-Ledger, PSE&G, Cogswell Realty Group—and brought in a lot of diverse acts.
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