Downtown

Just South West of University Heights, Downtown is the aptly named area that consists of what was Pre-War Downtown Newark.

Summary


The city of Newark survived the great war better than most major cities, assumingly due to its close proximity to New York City. After surviving the initial fallout, the city tried to get back to life, but that was impossible. With no connections with the outside world, and the country fallen, the city went into chaos. Little is known about the city in the early years after the war, but in 2121 it was known to be victim to many raiding parties, taking slaves down to Great Lanta to the south. In reaction to this, the new Mayor in 2124 started what he called a "City Revitilization Project". The CRP condemned falling buildings, and created barriers around those that posed the most threat. Primarily the ones near the Providential Center and the old-world Mall. These new fences were stronger and less peneratable than the standard chain link fence, inspired by the slave walls in the Pitt. They also served to keep out the raiding and slaving parties, but a few still sneak in at times. However, the city benefited from these walls, and the city became inhabitable again. By 2277, the city is still standing, and just as good. Other than the barriers on some blocks, the entire downtown area is open for you to scavenge.

Market St.
Market street holds most of the old-world stores, and intersects the major streets. North only to Branford St, it is the penultimate southern street in the downtown area.

Broad St.
Broad St is a large North/South street in Downtown Newark. It is double capacity of normal roads, and it passes by notible locations like the Providential Tower and Military Park.

Jahannam Hotel & Suites
The Jahannam Hotel & Suites is a mysterious building that looms over downtown. There are absolutely no records of the Jahannam Hotel from before the war. When people are asked about it, they have no information, but are instinctively afraid of the building. Even the raiders avoid it like a bad omen. The only way to enter is to fall through a hole.

Military Park
Military Park is a large open area in the downtown, along Broad St. It also touches the MPAC, PES&G HQ, and the Hotel. The park itself is mostly empty, with a few monuments and a military statue. The only building is an abandoned hot-dog stand.

Factions
Downtown is mainly inhabited by civilians. There are also a few Chinese Ghouls to the north of the Jahannam Hotel, and some ghouls fenced out by the CRP walls.

Background
The locations almost all have real-world counterparts. The GECK file names street intersections as they really are in Newark.

S Klein is very visible across from military park, a real-world reference to the S. Klein store that existed in that location until 2012