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New Jersey Institute of Tech
323 High St Newark NJ - 973-596-3000
~1.82 miles from Clifton city center
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New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. NJIT offers 100 degree programs in 27 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate specialties.NJIT is New Jersey's science and technology university. The school opened as the Newark Technical School in 1881 with 88 students. As of 2005, there are 8,058 students of which 1,400 live in one of the school's four dormitories. It is now home to the Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors College, College of Science and Liberal Arts, and College of Computing Sciences. The current president, Robert A. Altenkirch, was inaugurated on May 2, 2003. He succeeded Saul K. Fenster, who was named the university’s sixth president in 1978.NJIT is o...
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Izod Center - NJ Nets - NJ Devils
Rutherford NJ
~4.34 miles from Clifton city center
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The Izod Center (formerly Brendan Byrne Arena and Continental Airlines Arena) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Opened in 1981, it is one of the oldest arenas in the NBA and is currently home to the New Jersey Nets NBA basketball team. The arena was formerly home to the New Jersey Devils NHL hockey team until 2007, when they moved to the Prudential Center in Newark. Official seating capacity, as of 2009, is 20,029 for college basketball, 20,049 for NBA games, and a maximum of 20,000 for concerts. The arena attracts spectators and fans from New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area. Because of the history of name changes, the arena is often referred to simply as the Meadowlands Arena.The Izod Center is a po...
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Giants Stadium - New York Giants - New York Jets
Giants Stadium East Rutherford NJ
~5.28 miles from Clifton city center
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Giants Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. It primarily serves as the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets American football teams of the NFL, and the New York Red Bulls soccer team of MLS. Maximum seating capacity is 78,741[2], making it the third-largest NFL stadium behind FedEx Field and the brand-new Cowboys Stadium. It is also the ninth-oldest stadium used by an NFL team. Giants Stadium will be closed and demolished in 2010 when the new Meadowlands Stadium opens.The stadium is located at State Route 120 and State Route 3 (which is accessed from Midtown Manhattan via the Lincoln Tunnel). The New Jersey Turnpike is also close by. It is also accessible by rail via New Jersey Transit's Meado...
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Saddle River County Park
Rochelle Park NJ
~5.37 miles from Clifton city center
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Saddle River County Park is a 596 acre county park in Bergen County, New Jersey, stretching from Ridgewood to Rochelle Park. The park is located along the Saddle River and consists of five sections, all of which are connected by a paved path that is open to both pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Meadowlands Race Track
East Rutherford NJ
~5.44 miles from Clifton city center
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The Meadowlands Racetrack is a horse racing track at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. The track hosts both thoroughbred racing and harness racing. It is known popularly in the region as "The Big M."Opened in the mid 1970s, Meadowlands Racetrack held its first-ever harness race on September 1, 1976 while thoroughbred racing commenced on September 6, 1977. With the exception of the opening season of 1976, autumn has been dedicated to the thoroughbreds, while the rest of the year features standardbreds, or harness horses.The advertising campaign that accompanied the start of thoroughbred racing at the Meadowlands in 1977 was highly sophisticated and well-received, and was chiefly noted for its use of the song "Racing With The Moon," originally ...
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Newark Museum
29 Old Road To Bloomfield Newark NJ - 973-497-9679
~5.69 miles from Clifton city center
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The Newark Museum is the largest museum in New Jersey, USA. It holds fine collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.The Newark Museum's Tibetan galleries are considered among the best in world. The collection was purchased from Christian missionaries in the early twentieth century. The Tibetan galleries have an in-situ Buddhist altar that the Dalai Lama has consecrated.In addition to its extensive art collections, The Newark Museum is dedicated to natural sci...
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Meadowlands Entertainment Complex
East Rutherford NJ
~5.81 miles from Clifton city center
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The Xanadu Meadowlands (formerly known as Meadowlands Xanadu or Xanadu Project) is a five-story retail and entertainment complex undergoing construction in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA. This complex was to have been completed in 2007, but the grand opening has been pushed back each year after 2007 until late 2010. Xanadu Meadowlands will be the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States and the third largest in the world, with 4,500,000 square feet (418,000 m2) of entertainment, sports, retail, office, and hotel space. The Xanadu Project will reside within the Meadowlands Sports Complex, using underutilized and existing parking areas. Additional parking will be provided through the addition of new parking decks. It will be accessible...
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Garden State Plaza
Paramus NJ
~6.25 miles from Clifton city center
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Westfield Garden State Plaza is a large upscale shopping mall in Paramus in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is owned and managed by the Westfield Group. Broadly, it is located at the intersection of Route 4 and Route 17 near the Garden State Parkway in Bergen County, New Jersey. With 2,132,112 ft2 (198,073 m2) of lettable space, it is the largest mall in New Jersey and the third-largest mall in the New York City metropolitan area. Its department store anchors are J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, and it is across Route 4 from an IKEA, Sports Authority, Bed, Bath and Beyond, and a Christmas Tree Shops. It is often referred to by locals of Northern New Jersey and Rockland Counties as the Garden State Plaza.Westfield Garden State Plaza ranks among the larges...
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East Orange (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~6.62 miles from Clifton city center
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East Orange is a city in Essex County, New Jersey, USA. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 69,824. The United States Census Bureau's 2005 population estimate for East Orange was 68,190.East Orange was originally incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 4, 1863, from portions of Orange town, and was reincorporated as a city on December 9, 1899, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier
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Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
Newark NJ
~7.16 miles from Clifton city center
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The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the fifth-largest[citation needed] cathedral in the United States, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. It is located at 89 Ridge Street in Newark, New Jersey. Envisioned as a "fitting monument to the faith," construction began in 1899 and was finished in 1954. The original design called for an English/Irish-gothic church, but plans were later modified in favor of a French-gothic style.
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Sportsworld Amusement Park
Paramus NJ
~7.16 miles from Clifton city center
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Harmon Cove Outlet Center
Secaucus NJ
~7.19 miles from Clifton city center
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Open 7 days a week. PARTIAL STORE LISTING - Carter’s Childrenswear • The Children’s Place • Gymboree • Perry Ellis • Bon Worth • Bass • Reebok • Van Heusen Factory Outlet • Samsonite • L’eggs Hanes Bali Playtex Express Factory Outlet • Sunglass Outlet • Lenox Factory Outlet • Banister Shoe Studio • Food Court • Prato Men’s Wear Outlet • Perfume & Cosmetic Outlet • East West Bridal • Marty's Shoes • Zena Shoes
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Secaucus (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~7.66 miles from Clifton city center
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Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 15,931. The town's name is pronounced "SEE-kaw-kus" (/'si?k??k?s/), with the accent on the first syllable, not the second as often used by non-natives.Secaucus was originally formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 12, 1900, from portions of North Bergen. On June 7, 1917, Secaucus was incorporated as a town, replacing Secaucus borough, based on the results of a referendum held on June 5, 1917.Before the 1950s, Secaucus was home to a number of pig farms, rendering plants, and junk yards, which gave the town a reputation for being one of the most odorous in the New York metropolitan area. In 1963, debris from the demolition of Pennsylvania Station was...
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Riverside Square Mall
Hackensack NJ
~7.68 miles from Clifton city center
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The Shops at Riverside is a two-level enclosed upscale shopping mall, located in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, off of Route 4, along the Hackensack River. The mall has a Gross leasable area (GLA) of 674,416 sq ft (62,655.3 m2). The "lavishly appointed" mall opened on March 10, 1977 with 620,000 sq ft (58,000 m2) of retail space, which included a 237,000 sq ft (22,000 m2) Bloomingdale's (expanded from an original freestanding site opened in 1959) and a 107,000 sq ft (9,900 m2) Saks Fifth Avenue. Until 2005, the shopping center was known as Riverside Square Mall
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Riverfront Stadium
Newark NJ
~7.83 miles from Clifton city center
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Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium is a 6,200-seat baseball park in Newark, New Jersey, USA, that hosted its first regular season baseball game on July 16, 1999, as the tenants of the facility, the Newark Bears, took on the Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds. It was built as the home of the Newark Bears baseball team, as well as to the college baseball teams of the Newark campus of Rutgers University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Newark Public Library
Newark NJ
~7.86 miles from Clifton city center
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Meadowlands Exposition Center
355 Plaza Drive Secaucus NJ
~8.07 miles from Clifton city center
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Red Saw Gallery
Newark NJ
~8.10 miles from Clifton city center
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Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art
Newark NJ
~8.11 miles from Clifton city center
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New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Newark NJ
~8.16 miles from Clifton city center
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New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. NJIT offers 100 degree programs in 27 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate specialties.NJIT is New Jersey's science and technology university. The school opened as the Newark Technical School in 1881 with 88 students. As of 2005, there are 8,058 students of which 1,400 live in one of the school's four dormitories. It is now home to the Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors College, College of Science and Liberal Arts, and College of Computing Sciences. The current president, Robert A. Altenkirch, was inaugurated on May 2, 2003. He succeeded Saul K. Fenster, who was named the university’s sixth president in 1978.NJIT is o...
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New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark NJ
~8.20 miles from Clifton city center
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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located in the heart of downtown Newark, New Jersey, United States, is the sixth largest performing arts center in the United States.[1] Home to the Grammy Award-winning New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO), NJPAC has been an important component to revitalization efforts for New Jersey's largest city.Approximately 5.5 million visitors (including more than one million children) have visited the center in its first twelve years of operation. It is located near the Passaic River waterfront, east of the Rutgers-Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology campuses and two blocks north of Seton Hall University School of Law.NJPAC offers several arts education programs, including arts training classes, scholarships, in-school residencies, profe...
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Military Park
Newark NJ
~8.23 miles from Clifton city center
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This park was first designed as a training field for soldiers when the city was planned in 1667, and now contains a number of important pieces of statuary that include the Wars of America Monument that was unveiled in 1926, and a bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that was unveiled in 1965.
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N J Historical Society
52 Park Pl Newark NJ - 973-596-8500
~8.25 miles from Clifton city center
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The New Jersey Historical Society is a historical society and museum located in Newark, New Jersey, United States. It was founded in 1845 at Trenton by intellectual and business leaders of New Jersey, most prominently Joseph C. Hornblower, Peter D. Vroom and William Whitehead.The New Jersey Historical Society's building next to Military Park.The Society was first located on Market Street in Newark. In 1931 it left downtown for a large colonial-style building partially paid for by Louis Bamberger in Broadway, east of Branch Brook Park.In 1997 the Historical Society moved back downtown, to 52 Park Place, on Military Park. The new home was a Georgian building vacated by the defunct Essex Club designed by Guilbert & Betelle. In its first year in the downtown location visits increased a...
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Essex County College
303 University Ave Newark NJ - 201-507-8900
~8.37 miles from Clifton city center
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Essex County College is a public two-year college located in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Its primary campus is in Newark. Other facilities include the West Essex Campus in West Caldwell and other satellite centers around Essex County.The college was established in 1966 as the public, two-year, open access community college of Essex County, admitted its first students in temporary quarters in Downtown Newark in 1968, and moved to its current permanent site in the University Heights district of the city in 1976. Essex offers AS, AA, and AAS degree programs. Approximately 25,000 people enroll each year in Essex County College's various degree and non-degree programs. Essex County College is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Paramus Park Mall
Paramus NJ
~8.40 miles from Clifton city center
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Paramus Park is a shopping center located on From Road in Paramus, New Jersey, United States, sandwiched between Route 17 and the Garden State Parkway, a little more than two miles (3 km) north of Route 4. The mall is owned by General Growth Properties and offers a Gross leasable area (GLA) of 770,941 sq ft (71,622.8 m2). The mall is accessible from Parkway exits 163 (northbound only) and 165, and from Route 17.The quartet of Paramus Park, Westfield Garden State Plaza, Bergen Town Center and Fashion Center account for a major portion of the $5 billion in annual retail sales generated in Paramus, more than any other ZIP Code in the United States. Paramus Park gets 6 million visitors annually to its 107 stores. Located in Bergen County, the mall is subject both to the county's Blue laws an...
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Gallery Aferro
Newark NJ
~8.43 miles from Clifton city center
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The mission of Gallery Aferro is to bring cultural education and esthetic engagement with contemporary issues to all people equally, and to create an environment of art.
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Path Train
Newark NJ
~8.54 miles from Clifton city center
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The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit railroad linking Manhattan, New York with New Jersey, and providing service to Jersey City, Hoboken, Harrison, and Newark. It is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. While some PATH stations are adjacent to New York City Subway, Newark Light Rail, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, and New Jersey Transit stations, there are no free transfers between these different, independently run transit systems; however, PATH does accept the same pay-per-ride MetroCard used by the New York City Subway. PATH trains run 24 hours a day.PATH has a route length of 13.8 miles (22.2 km), not including any route overlap.PATH trains only use tunnels in Manhattan, Hoboken and downtown Jersey City. The tracks cross the Hudson River throug...
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Downtown Newark (Neighborhood)
Newark NJ
~8.58 miles from Clifton city center
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New Jersey Children's Museum
Paramus NJ
~8.64 miles from Clifton city center
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The New Jersey Children's Museum is a great place to celebrate your child's birthday party! Toddlers and preschoolers love the interactive, hands-on exhibits, including a real fire truck, a real helicopter, cool fossil/dinosaur cave, play ballet studio, kids' medieval castle, and much, much more. Ask about special party activities, special birthday favors, and fun birthday party themes!
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Turtle Back Zoo
South Orange NJ
~8.64 miles from Clifton city center
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Turtle Back Zoo, located in West Orange, New Jersey, is a zoo in New Jersey. Situated on 18 acres (73,000 m2) of land in South Mountain Reservation, it is part of the Essex County Park System, the oldest county park system in the United States. Founded in 1963, the zoo was originally a showcase for animals indigenous to New Jersey, but currently features species from every continent except Antarctica. Located adjacent to the Richard J. Codey Arena, practice home of the New Jersey Devils. The zoo is open year-round, recording over 340,000 visitors in 2007.Recent additions to the zoo include Filipino "golden mantled" flying foxes, making Turtle Back the first zoo in the country to show this species of bat; an American Black Bear exhibit; the Essex Farm, which holds common farm animals and ...
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