Weequahic Park is a park in the southern part of Newark, New Jersey. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Weequahic Park has the largest lake in Essex County. Weequahic Park was opened on what had been the Waverly Fairgrounds. West of Weequahic Park is an attractive middle-class neighborhood. East of Weequahic Park is Newark Airport. Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ... Frederick Law Olmsted, oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1895, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City, the countrys oldest coordinated... Essex County is in Ontario: see Essex County, Ontario or Essex County is the name of several counties in the United States: Essex County, Massachusetts Essex County, New Jersey Essex County, New York Essex County, Vermont Essex County, Virginia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA Airport Code EWR; ICAO Airport Code KEWR) is an international airport within the city limits of both Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. ...
Weequahic (pronounced "weekwake") is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey's south ward.
It is separated from the central ward by Hawthorne Avenue on the north, and bordered by the township of Irvington on the west, Newark Liberty International Airport on the east, and the city of Elizabeth on the south.
The name "Weequahic" is Lenni-Lenape for "head of the cove." The area was farmland until the late nineteenth century when it was developed into a middle-class, non-industrial neighborhood of detached single-family homes oriented around WeequahicPark.
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