Overall good, clean venue with helpful staff, lots...

Overall good, clean venue with helpful staff, lots of food drink and dessert options and (surprisingly for places like this) clean bathrooms (compared to most stadium-type venues. Anyone unfamiliar with Newark that thinks it's a dangerous city--that might be true, but this place is a safe part of town, and especially if you're going to a special event at the Prudential Center, you won't even feel like you're in Newark. As for parking, they have an attached parking garage with covered parking, but if you want to park there, it'll cost you around $30-40 and I'd HIGHLY recommend purchasing a parking pass in advance (which you can do right from the Prudential Center's official website--both for the parking garage AND for other affiliated parking lots in the immediate area), otherwise you might find yourself in a bind if you just try to get show up for the event and get a spot. Also, there are some cheaper lots in the area (several uncovered parking lots that range from being across to the street to a couple of blocks away, and while you might looks those lots up online and see that their hours say Mon-Fri 6am to 10pm (for example), almost all of them are open on weekends AND past 10pm for special events -- they do cater their hours to the events at the Pru, so don't be fooled by the posted hours, but definitely double check on the lots hours and pricing if it's not an official lot that's listed on the Prudential website. A great alternative way to do this is a website/app called SpotHero, which you can reserve spots through, get either digital or printed out parking passes, AND they have great customer service to answer any questions you have about the parking lot in question. But DO NOT think you will find street parking, because it WONT happen anywhere in the immediate area. Also, I'd really recommend parking in the official covered garage for the Pru, because it's attached to the Arena via a skywalk AND has attendants all throughout on every level, and therefore if the weather isn't great, or if you're still worried about safety, you never have to step foot outside (unless you get there late and have to park on the very top level, which is not covered). Also, there are premium seating sections which nicer seats if you're willing to pay the extra price, as well as the lounge section which has a built-in bar and restaurant open only to guests in that section, and the view is pretty good from those sections.