The Codey Arena is owned and operated by the Essex County Department of Park, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs.

Many high school, college and semi-professional (NJ Rockets) ice hockey games have been played at the rink beginning in the 1960s.

On September 13, 2024, the New York Sirens of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) announced as part of their move to the Prudential Center, they would make the arena their practice facility.

A number of coaches at ESC are World and Olympic competitors such as Kay Barsdell, Ken Foster and JoJo Starbuck.

Suna Murray (1972), Elisa Spitz (1984), and Karen Courtland (1994) represented the United States in Figure Skating at the Winter Olympic Games and World Championships.

Figure Skating to be part of the Team USA for 2012–13 season to compete in Leon Lurje Trophy international competition in Sweden.

was selected by US Figure Skating to be one of the two Novice teams to represent the United States at the 2013 Nations Cup in Spain.

Olympians Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Janet Lynn, John Curry, Suna Murray, Karen Courtland, Elisa Spitz, and many others performed here to sold out crowds in the spectacular ice show productions of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

[18] Occasionally, a rink is rented out for private entities, for instance, using it as a filming location for a Super Bowl commercial.

[20] New Jersey Transit bus 73 serves the arena, Turtle Back Zoo, and the South Mountain recreational complex.