List of tallest buildings in Newark

Downtown Newark with Newark Riverfront Park on Passaic River (2016)

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 in 2005.Several highrise buildings added to the skyline since.

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		466 ft (142 m)	35	1931	Tallest building since its completion in 1931.[5][6][7]
2	Eleven 80		448 / 137	36	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	440 Elizabeth Avenue aka Carmel Towers & Essex Lake House		313 feet (95 m)	25	1970	[25][26][27][28][29]
12	Prudential Tower		313 feet (95 m)	20	2014 (topped out)	[30][31][32][33]
13	Prudential Building		300 feet (91 m)	21	1942	[34][35]
14	50 Rector Park		296.1 feet (90.3 m)	24	2018	[36][37][38][39][40]
15	Penn Plaza East Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey		292 ft (89 m) (estimated)	21	1993	[41] [42] [43]
16	One Theater Square		283.23 ft (86.33 m)	23	2018
17	Two Gateway Center		272 / 83	18	1972	[44][45]
18	Military Park Building		265 / 81	21	1926	Tallest building upon its completion in 1926 to 1930[46][47]
19=	New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building aka Walker House		260 / 79	20	1929	[48][49][50]
19=	24 Commerce Street		260 / 79	19	1926	[51][52]
20	Dr. Stanley S. Bergen Bldg New Jersey Medical School		255 / 78	16	1954	[53][54][55]
21	33 Washington Street		251 / 77	20	1971	[56]
22=	Mutual Benefit Life Building		246 ft (75 m)	20	1957	[57]
22=	1 Washington Park Rutgers Business School		246 ft (75 m)	18	1983	[58][59][60][61]
23	550 Broad Street		243 ft (74 m)	19	1966	[62][63][64]
24	Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart		232 ft (71 m) (towers)	n/a	1954	[65]
25	Bamberger's		226 /69 (roof)	14	1923	Tallest building after expansion in 1923[66] ,[67] now
26	Peter W. Rodino Federal Building		220 ft (67 m)	16	1967	[68][69][70]
27	Gibraltar Building		220 ft (67 m)	14	1927	[71][72][73]
28	Firemen's Insurance Company Building (Newark)		220 ft (67 m)	19	1910	Tallest building upon its completion in 1910[74][75]
29	Griffith Building		210 ft (64 m)	15	1927
30	155 Washington aka Newark Urby		210 ft (64 m)	18	1930	[76][77][78][79][80][81]

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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		[82]
Prudential Main Building	Broad Street	1892	150 / 46	11	demolished in 1956[83]
Fireman's Insurance Company Building	280 Broad Street	1910	220 / 67	19	[74][84][85]
Bamberger's	131 Broad Street	1923	226/69	14	[66]
Military Park Building	60 Park Place	1926	265 / 81	21	[47]
Eleven 80	1180 Raymond Boulevard	1930	448 / 137	35	[9]
National Newark Building	744 Broad Street	1931	465 / 142	34	[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.^[86]

See also[]

• List of tallest buildings in New Jersey
• List of tallest buildings in Jersey City
• List of tallest buildings in Atlantic City
• List of tallest buildings in Fort Lee
• List of tallest buildings in New Brunswick
• List of tallest buildings in Camden
• Newark Public Service Terminal
• Robert Treat Center
• Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments

External links[]

• Graph of New Jersey's twelve tallest buildings
• Old Newark.com office building images
• Newark skycraper photos
• BCDC Newark buildings and sites
• Emporis Top Twenty

Panorama[]

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

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References[]

General

• Emporis.com - Newark
• Skyscraperpage.com - Newark

Specific