Livingston, New Jersey Livingston, New Jersey Location in Essex County and the state of New Jersey.
Location in Essex County and the state of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Livingston, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Livingston, New Jersey State New Jersey Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
Livingston was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 5, 1813, from portions of Caldwell Township (now Fairfield Township) and Springfield Township (now in Union County, New Jersey).
The township was titled for William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey; his family's coat of arms serves as the township's seal. The dispute came to a breaking point in September 1745 when the East Jersey proprietors began to evict a settler only six months after a home fire in Newark completely finished the initial deed, which was the only evidence of the purchase. During that period, William Livingston who was one of the several landed aristocrats joined the pioneer against the proprietors.
Livingston owned territory around today's south corner of the Township of Livingston.
In 1811, a petition was filed to incorporate the township from about 100 citizens who lived in seven distinct areas: Centerville (separated to turn into Roseland, in 1908), Cheapside (now Livingston Mall), Morehousetown (now Livingston Circle), Northfield (now Northfield Center), Squiretown (now the Cerebral Palsy Institute of New Jersey on Old Road), Teedtown (now Livingston Center), and Washington Place (now near the border with Millburn).
Pleasant Avenue which was one of the first turnpikes in New Jersey was the only major access to the town through stagecoaches.
During this expansion period, many services were organized including volunteer Fire Department in 1922, first regular Livingstone Police chief in 1929, a Planning Commission in 1930, two hospitals opened in 1959 and 1960, new enhance library in 1961, and new municipal complex in 1963.
The Township of Livingston is positioned in Essex County, in the Gateway Region.
Livingston is part of the New York urbane area.
The township is positioned in southwestern Essex County and is bordered to the south and west by Morris County communities Florham Park and East Hanover, Roseland to the north, West Orange to the east, and to the west by Millburn/Short Hills.
In a report performed by the United Way of Northern New Jersey based on 2012 data, around 14% of Livingston homeholds were classified as "Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed" homeholds (below a threshold of $50,000 for homeholds below 65, below $35,000 for those over 65), struggling with basic necessities, such as housing, childcare, food, community care, and transportation, compared to 38% statewide and 47% in Essex County. With the addition of Livingston Town Center, classified as mixed-use development, new restaurants have opened as well, adding to the large number of locally owned establishments. Livingston also has a small-town Public-access tv station (Livingston TV on Comcast TV-34 and Verizon Fi - OS 26), which is maintained by Livingston High School Students as well as the LPBC (Livingston Public Broadcasting Committee).
The performers are from small-town improve and other places in New Jersey.
Past productions, including The Sound of Music, Oliver!, and Annie, received Perry Awards from New Jersey Association of Community Theatres. Children's Theatre of Livingston is a small-town organization that provides performance opportunities for Livingston kids grades 2 to 8.
New Jersey Ballet is a primary ballet business based in Livingston.
The business is recognized nationally and internationally with tours in many countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Livingston is also the command posts of New Jersey School of Ballet which offers many classes in Ballet, Jazz and Tap. Local artists have support from Livingston Arts Association which is an organization formed in 1959 to promote art in the improve including large scale exhibitions, demonstrations, and workshops. The organization is also a member of Art Council of Livingston which has a loggia at Livingston Town Center.
The Arts Association includes various organizations in addition to the Arts Council of Livingston, including the NJ State Opera Guild - West Essex Chapter and Livingston Camera Club.
From 1984 to 1989, Livingston was the site of the Grand Prix tennis circuit tournament, the Livingston Open.
Although a large portion of the complex is positioned inside Roseland, but the county designated Livingston as the host improve as the Riker Hill Art Park is the only functional and publicly accessible park at the present time. The art park positioned up on of the hill is home of many studios in multiple disciplines of art and craft.
Livingston inhabitants can also apply for memberships of enhance golf courses at Francis Byrne Golf Course in West Orange and Millburn Municipal Golf Course in Millburn Township.
Additionally, there are many autonomous sports organizations such as Livingston Little League, Livingston Jr.
Lancers (football and cheerleading), Livingston Lacrosse Club, and Livingston Soccer Club. An Essex County park complex is positioned one mile (1.6 km) from Livingston with Turtle Back Zoo, Richard J.
Livingston's Township Council consists of five members, propel to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats coming up for election every other year.
Volunteer-based enhance safety organizations are Livingston Auxiliary Police, Livingston Fire Department and Livingston First Aid Squad.
Livingston is positioned in the 11th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 27th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Livingston had been split between the 8th Congressional District and the 11th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's Eleventh Congressional District is represented by Rodney Frelinghuysen (R, Harding Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Mc - Keon (D, West Orange). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Luciano (District 4 - Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Fairfield, Livingston, Millburn, North Caldwell, Roseland, Verona, West Caldwell and West Orange; West Caldwell), and Cynthia D.
Livingston was the home of one of New Jersey's most prominent political families, the Keans.
Senator; his son, Thomas Kean, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1968 to 1978 (and as Assembly Speaker in 1972 73, and Minority Leader 1974 77), as Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990, and as President of Drew University from 1990 to 2004.
Essex County Freeholders from Livingston have encompassed Reita Greenstone, James Cavanaugh, Patricia Sebold, and William Clark. Main article: Livingston Public Schools The Livingston Public Schools serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's nine schools had an enrollment of 5,714 students and 414.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.80:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2010 11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are six K-5 elementary schools Burnet Hill School (411 students, including Pre - K), Collins Elementary School (420), Harrison Elementary School (526), Hillside Elementary School (398), Mount Pleasant Elementary School (422) and Riker Hill Elementary School (416) Mt.
Pleasant Middle School Grade 6 (475), Heritage Middle School Grades 7 and 8 (891) and Livingston High School for grades 9 12 (1,755).
Additionally, a separate budget of 7% of all municipal services went toward the operation of its enhance library. According to library statistics collected by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Livingston Public Library was ranked 22 out of 232 municipal libraries in New Jersey based on total circulation in 2006. Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy is a private coeducational Jewish day school that serves preschool through eighth grade, while Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School is a four-year yeshiva high school for grades 9 12. The Tzedek School is a non-sectarian co-educational school of Jewish Heritage and Hebrew Language serving the communities of Livingston and the encircling area for students in grades K-12. Livingston Chinese School and Livingston Huaxia Chinese School are two weekend Chinese-language schools in Livingston which use facilities of Heritage Middle School and Mount Pleasant school.
Dickinson House and Washington Place Schoolhouse are two other sites in the township that are registered in the New Jersey State Historic Site Program.
Livingston is positioned 21.9 miles (35.2 km) from New York City, around 40-90+ minutes depending on traffic.
In and near Livingston are Eisenhower Parkway, County Route 508, County Route 527, Interstate 280 and Route 10.
The township had a total of 136.05 miles (218.95 km) of roadways, of which 105.43 miles (169.67 km) are maintained by the municipality, 26.05 miles (41.92 km) by Essex County and 4.57 miles (7.35 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The stations are about 5 7 miles away from most of Livingston, accessible by car or taxi.
The township provides a fee-based direct shuttle service called Livingston Express Shuttle for a 15-minute ride between Livingston Mall and South Orange Station for Morristown Line trains to Midtown Manhattan and Hoboken. On May 22, 1992, Democratic Presidential candidate and eventual Presidential elect Bill Clinton visited Livingston High School on a campaign stop to announce his support for Governor James Florio's NJ welfare proposal. On November 16, 1999, Livingston High School hosted sitting Governor Christine Todd Whitman and her cabinet for a town meeting with a conversation focusing on the state's range. On January 13, 2008, Livingston High School hosted a crowd of 900 at the first of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine's all-state county forum tour of Jersey to promote and explain his new toll hike proposal to finance state road maintenance.
See also: Category:People from Livingston, New Jersey.
Tsien (born 1952), chemist who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also won first prize in the Westinghouse talent search at age 16 when he attended Livingston High School with a universal investigating how metals bind to thiocyanate. Heth and Jed, New York City-based indie modern duo consisting of brothers Heth and Jed Weinstein, who are also co-authors of Buskers: The On-the-Streets, In-the-Trains, Off-the-Grid Memoir of Two New York City Street Musicians (Soft Skull Press). Rieth (born 1957), who was the Adjutant General of New Jersey in Governor Jon Corzine's cabinet. Christie (born 1962), Governor of New Jersey, a former United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey who served on the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Lucille Davy, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education and a graduate of Livingston High School. Jacobs (1905 1989), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1948 and from 1952 to 1975. Byron Scott (born 1961), lived here while he was coach of the New Jersey Nets. Ruggiero "Richie The Boot" Boiardo (1890 1984), alleged capo of the Genovese crime family and alleged notorious mafiosa of Newark, New Jersey in the early 1900s. Jian Li (born 1988), graduated from Livingston High School with high academic placements but rejected from Princeton University, later filing suit claiming that his rejection from the school was based on discrimination against Asian Americans. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Democrats; Clinton Backs New Jersey's Changes in Welfare System", The New York Times, May 23, 1992.
"DESTINATIONS;A Day for Olympic Torch To Glow in New Jersey", The New York Times, June 16, 1996.
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The objects collected include: two program printouts, two tape cassettes, a reel of computer tape and a range of other materials related to an electronic mail program Ayyadurai advanced for the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as a high school student at Livingston High School in Livingston, N.J., in 1979." "Born in New York, in 1952, Roger Yonchien Tsien interval up in Livingston, New Jersey." "Only one New Jersey teenager has ever captured top honors in the history of the competition.
"Frank Biondi interval up in a strict Catholic home in Livingston, New Jersey." Grady to chair a task force on New Jersey's fiscal challenges", New - Jersey - Newsroom.com, November 12, 2009.
"There was the murmur of reporters and photographers trading the rumor of the moment, punctuated and fanned by cellphones ringing with tips like the one on Tuesday that the United States attorney, up the Turnpike in Newark, was planning to announce a plea agreement involving Charles Kushner, a developer from Livingston who is one of the top Democratic contributors in the country." "Kushner interval up in a Jewish home in Livingston New Jersey and graduated from Harvard University." "Screenwriter Benjamin August, a 1997 graduate of Livingston High School, will discuss his film, Remember, at its New Jersey premiere on Saturday, February 6, at 7:30 p.m." "WNBC anchor among Metro - West sports hall inductees, New Jersey Jewish News, June 19, 2008.
"Just before he turned 13, Cooper's family moved to Livingston, New Jersey." "Bullied No More13-year-old Dana Gaier, of Livingston, voiced the character of Edith in the animated hit Despicable Me.", New Jersey Monthly, September 13, 2011.
The memoir, told in alternating chapters by Heth and Jed, chronicles their childhood in Livingston, New Jersey, their brief longterm position as petty criminals, their early attempts to make it in the music business, and, finally, their success as street musicians." "One-time aspiring singer/songwriter Myq Kaplan, 32, formerly of Livingston and now of New York City, changed his tune ...
"Kritzer: I was born in Manhattan, and I was raised in Livingston, New Jersey." "He himself is the product of an endured family in a neighborhood of split-level homes in suburban Livingston, in northern New Jersey." "Governor's Awards in Arts Education Award Recipients May 2003", New Jersey Department of Education.
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RUTH MARCUS, AUTHOR: I can't remember the first time but I can remember many other times in the middle there because we were we both started in Livingston, New Jersey in fourth grade.
"Born in Newark and raised in Livingston, Coben is a Jersey boy through-and-through, having moved only to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he met his wife, Anne, a pediatrician." He was born in Livingston, New Jersey in 1946." "I interval up in Livingston, New Jersey, about 45 minutes from New York City." Lucille Day, Office of the Governor of New Jersey, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 2, 2008.
"Nathan Jacobs, 83, an Ex-Justice Of the New Jersey Supreme Court", The New York Times, January 26, 1989.
Jacobs, a retired associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and an influential figure in court reform in the state, died yesterday at his home in Livingston, N.J." "Environmental Resource Inventory", Livingston Environmental Commission, July, 2010.
KEAN, 86; FORMERLY IN HOUSE; Jersey Republican Won Reputation as Expert on Social Security", The New York Times, September 24, 1980.
"Robert Winthrop Kean, a former United States Representative and for years a dominant figure in Republican politics in New Jersey, died Sunday in St.
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"Born in Livingston, New Jersey, to Haitian parents, U.S.
"Chernoff interval up in Livingston, New Jersey, a town of about 27,000 citizens .
"NERD POWER TAKEN LIGHTLY, ROWERS DELIGHT IN SILVER MEDAL", New York Daily News, July 29, 1996.
"Jamieson, from Livingston, N.J., was in the quadruple scull that rowed second behind Germany to take the first United States medal ever in that event." 2014 Nominees, New Jersey Hall of Fame.
"Chasing down a long throw from former Blau-Weiss Gottschee star Dario Brose, [Claudio Reyna], the 1993 College Player of the Year from the University of Virginia and Livingston, N.J., slammed a difficult shot at Norway goalkeeper Frode Grodas to problematic a game-winning comebackchance for Cobi Jones as the United States defeated Norway, 2 1, in Sun Devil Stadium yesterday to begin its 1994 World Cup preparation with an upset triumph." "VISITORS ARE FEELING RIGHT AT HOME IN JERSEY", New York Daily News, May 25, 2003.
"'I've learned everything I need to know about New Jersey,' said Scott, who resides in Livingston amid the season.
"The Boot assembled a mansion in Livingston, described by one who saw it, as a 'Transylvanian classic', because of its turrets and out-of-place appearance in the New Jersey suburbs." New Jersey portal Livingston Public Schools Livingston Public Schools's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education Data for the Livingston Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics Municipalities and communities of Essex County, New Jersey, United States
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