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| Former names | City Field[1] |
|---|---|
| Location | 450 Bloomfield Avenue, Roseville, Newark, New Jersey 07102 |
| Coordinates | 40°46′12″N 74°11′05″W / 40.769866°N 74.184612°W |
| Capacity | 25,000 (original) 5,600 (current) |
| Surface | Grass (original stadium) Artificial (current) |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1925 (original stadium) 2011 (current stadium) |
| Demolished | 2009 |
| Tenants | |
| Newark Stars (ECL) (1926) Newark Tornadoes (NFL) (1930) Newark Tornadoes (AA) (1930, 1937–1938) Newark Bears (AA) (1939–1941, 1963–1964) Newark Ukrainian Sitch (ASL) (1967–1968) Newark City Schools (1925–2006) | |
Newark Schools Stadium (originally named City Field, nicknamed "The Old Lady of Bloomfield Avenue") is the name of two stadiums that were both located on Bloomfield Avenue between Abington and Roseville Avenues in the Roseville section of Newark, New Jersey.
The first stadium was used primarily for football and was built in 1925. It was the home of the Newark Tornadoes of the National Football League during the 1930 season. The stadium was used for high school football until 2006. Baseball's Newark Stars of the Eastern Colored League, which was a part of the Negro leagues, also used the stadium in 1926. Its primary use, however, was for Newark's high schools. The original stadium was a reinforced concrete horseshoe shaped venue that had a maximum seating capacity of 25,000.
The original stadium was condemned in 2006 and demolished in 2009. In its place, a brand new Schools Stadium was constructed on the site and the new stadium opened in 2011.
The current Schools Stadium is also horseshoe shaped, but the seating is not arranged throughout the horseshoe like the old stadium was; instead, there are two metal bleacher sections, one on each side of the venue, and it has a capacity of 5,600.
The current stadium plays host to football games played by Barringer High School and Newark Collegiate Academy. It is one of four venues in Newark that are used by the seven high schools that field football teams in the city. In addition to Schools Stadium, games are played at Shabazz Stadium at Shabazz High School and Untermann Field at Weequahic High School. Shabazz shares their stadium with Central High School, and Weequahic shares theirs with West Side High School. East Side High School, which played their games at Schools Stadium until 2021, now plays at Eddie Moraes Stadium near their campus in the city’s Ironbound section.
- ^ Troiano, Laura T. Give Me a “Ball Park Figure”: Creating Civic Narratives Through Stadium Building in Newark, New Jersey. Rutgers University-Newark, 2017. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/55294/PDF/1/play/