Mount Pleasant, Newark, New Jersey

Mount Pleasant, Newark, New Jersey
Newark neighborhoods
North Ward
-Broadway
-Forest Hill
-Mount Pleasant
-Roseville
-Seventh Avenue
South Ward
-Clinton Hill
-Dayton
-South Broad Valley
-Weequahic
Central Ward
-The Coast/Lincoln Park
-Government Center
-Springfield/Belmont
-University Heights
East Ward
-Five Corners
-The Ironbound
-Downtown
West Ward
-Fairmount
-Ivy Hill
-Vailsburg
-West Side

Mt. Pleasant is another name for the lower Broadway neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, USA. It is an Urban Enterprise Zone and is poor. It is named for the hill overlooking the Passaic River on which it rests.

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A number of landmarks in the neighborhood include the former teachers college. This pretty structure is located on the corner of Broadway and 4TH avenue, and is today University high school. It also served as the temporary home of Arts high school in the 1990s. The open and raised Erie Lackawanna (conrail) railroad's NX bascule bridge, which appeared in the film Annie towers and looks over the neighborhood like a quiet sentinel.


Coordinates: 40°45′29″N 74°10′10″W / 40.75794°N 74.169502°W / 40.75794; -74.169502



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