Its central business district has long been a commercial, retail, and entertainment center with a distinctive skyline.
In the post-industrial-high tech era, development was concentrated in the Gateway District near Penn Station, with many buildings clad in reflective glass.
Three ZPMC Super-Post-Panamax container cranes each measuring 561 ft (171 m) at Port Newark are the tallest structures in the city.
[6] This list ranks Newark buildings that stand at least 210 feet (64 m) tall, based on standard height measurement.
(unverified [a]) [citation needed] [31][32] (Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall) [60][61][62] Grant USA Tower was a proposed building which would have been one of world's tallest.