My thoughts on the park, cut and pasted, from my post above as I now see it was entirely too long.
The new park across the street was sweet, and, certainly by design, very isolated. The half near the Edison building raises up 15-20 feet from street level, with a retaining wall and fences. The connection over McCarty to the highway has not been started yet and is currently fenced off, so no access at all from that direction. The half more near the prudential is bordered on both sides by fenced in parking lots. There is a entrance point, which is maybe 100'across, directly across from the prudential on Mulberry, and an entrance in the middle on a closed off cross road, this place might as well be by invitation only, especially on the half near the Edison. Vagrants will not be strolling around and camping out. Will Prudential visitors be allowed to pregame in the park?
You stand in the center of the park and look around and Newark is looking very good. Now there are still too many parking lots, and some abandoned buildings in sight, (in the lots to the south which have to be amongtst the most prime real estate in the city) and you don't have to go far to see more abondoned buildings(surprsing on Market it goes, Dinosaur, that new pizza place, then completely dilapidated building) but it has certainly come a long way. Even looked like the Arena bar was finally reopened.