West Orange, New Jersey West Orange, New Jersey Township of West Orange Official seal of West Orange, 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 West Orange, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of West Orange, New Jersey State New Jersey West Orange is a suburban township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
West Orange was initially a part of Newark township, and remained so until November 27, 1806, when the territory now encompassing all of The Oranges was detached to form Orange Township. On April 13, 1807, the first government was elected.
On January 31, 1860, Orange was incorporated as a town, and on April 3, 1872, it was reincorporated as a city. Almost immediately, Orange began fragmenting into lesser communities, primarily because of small-town disputes about the costs of establishing paid police, fire and street departments.
South Orange was organized on April 1, 1861, Fairmount (an autonomous municipality for less than one year that was later to turn into part of West Orange) on March 11, 1862, and East Orange on March 4, 1863. West Orange (including what had been the briefly autonomous municipality of Fairmount) was incorporated as a township on April 10, 1863, and was reformed as a town on February 28, 1900. In 1980, West Orange again became a township to take favor of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated a greater share of government aid to municipalities classified as townships. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township had a total region of 12.171 square miles (31.522 km2), including 12.046 square miles (31.198 km2) of territory and 0.125 square miles (0.324 km2) of water (1.03%). It is positioned approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Newark and 13 miles (21 km) west of New York City.
West Orange borders the Essex County communities of Essex Fells, Livingston, Millburn, Maplewood, Montclair, Orange, Roseland, Verona and South Orange. The earliest and most densely populated part of the township is Downtown West Orange, which lies in the low watershed along the township's easterly border with the town/city of Orange and Montclair.
The West Orange Public Library is positioned on Mount Pleasant Avenue in this section, just west of Main Street.
Downtown West Orange has the most urban character of the township's neighborhoods, while the Valley is home to a burgeoning arts precinct and a momentous African American community.
West of Downtown, the neighborhoods of West Orange turn into increasingly suburban as one ascends the steep hill of the First Watchung Mountain along Northfield, Mount Pleasant, or Eagle Rock Avenue.
The Victorian enclave of Llewellyn Park, one of America's first prepared residentiary communities, is also positioned on the First Mountain, having been created in 1853 as a site for nation homes for the wealthy from New York City. Many blocks on the First Mountain have sweeping views of the Newark and New York City skylines.
West Orange Municipal Building, Main Street & Mount Pleasant Avenue West Orange is governed by Plan B of the Mayor-Council fitness of municipal government pursuant to the Faulkner Act, as implemented on July 1, 1962, by direct petition. Each member of the Council is propel to a four-year term of on a staggered basis, with either three council seats or two seats and the mayoral seat up for election every even-numbered year.
Township elections are nonpartisan, with all seats chosen on an at-large basis. In December 2013, the Township Council allowed an ordinance that shifted municipal elections from May to the November general election, citing savings from the combined elections estimated as much as $100,000 per cycle. As of 2016, the Mayor of West Orange is Robert Parisi, whose term of office ends December 31, 2018. Members of the Township Council are Michelle Casalino (2016; appointed to serve an unexpired term), Victor Cirilo (2018), Jerry Guarino (2016), Joe Krakoviak (2016) and Susan Mc - Cartney (2018). West Orange is split between the 10th and 11th Congressional Districts and is part of New Jersey's 27th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, West Orange had been split between the 8th Congressional District and the 10th 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. In the redistricting that took effect in 2013, 18,122 inhabitants in the easterly third of the township were placed in the 10th district, while 28,085 inhabitants in the portion of the township were placed in the 11th District. New Jersey's Tenth Congressional District is represented by Donald Payne Jr.
(D, Newark). 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). Timberlake (District 3 - East Orange, Newark's West and Central Wards, Orange and South Orange; East Orange) Freeholder Vice President Brendan W.
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.
Main article: West Orange Public Schools The West Orange Public Schools serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Edison Central Six School (6; 475), Liberty Middle School (7&8; 551) and Roosevelt Middle School (7&8; 464) and West Orange High School (2,141) for grades 9-12. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 114.54 miles (184.33 km) of roadways, of which 89.63 miles (144.25 km) were maintained by the municipality, 19.45 miles (31.30 km) by Essex County and 5.46 miles (8.79 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The township offers a jitney service that operates on weekdays, offering service to the Orange and South Orange train stations. WFME (AM) on 1560k - Hz and licensed to New York City, WFME-FM on 106.3m - Hz and licensed to Mount Kisco, New York and ethnic tv station WNYJ-TV Channel 66 licensed to West Milford, New Jersey maintains their studios and bureaus on Mount Pleasant Avenue.
Verizon Communications, going as far back as the mid to late 1950s and early 1960s when it was New Jersey Bell, directed an analog central office and later fiber optics facilities on Prospect Avenue near the Essex Green Shopping Center and a fiber optics and satellite transmitter facility which was originally owned and directed by MCI Inc.
See also: Category:People from West Orange, New Jersey.
People who were born in, inhabitants of, or otherwise closely associated with West Orange include: Martin Brodeur (born 1972), ice hockey goaltender in the NHL with the New Jersey Devils. Brendan Byrne (born 1924), Governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982. Joan Caulfield (1922-1991), movie, theatre, tv actress of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s who was born in East Orange, moved to West Orange amid childhood and lived here until her high school graduation from a private school in Orange. Richard Codey (born 1946), State Senator who served as Acting Governor of New Jersey in 2002 and as Governor from 2004 until 2006. (Now resides in neighboring Roseland) Degnan (born 1944), Attorney General of New Jersey from 1978 until 1981 who was chosen as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Charles Edison (1890-1969), United States Secretary of the Navy 1940, Governor of New Jersey 1941 to 1944 and son of Thomas Edison. (born 1979), former Mayor of Orange, New Jersey. Mc - Clellan (1826-1885), Major General and briefly general-in-chief of the Union Army amid the Civil War who ran as a Democrat against Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864 and went on to turn into Governor of New Jersey (1878 1881). Mc - Keon (born 1958), member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 27th Legislative District who served as Mayor of West Orange from 1998 to 2010. Joseph Minish (1916-2007), represented New Jersey's 11th congressional precinct in the United States House of Representatives. Ranked #4 on the Sports Illustrated list of The 50 Greatest New Jersey Sports Figures. Edwin Stern (born 1941), lawyer and judge who served as acting justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Edison's tinkering in Menlo Park, the same reason why a newer slogan for Essex County's West Orange Edison later lived there is 'Where Invention Lives'." a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Brendan Byrne, 90 Years Old and Still in the Mix; New Jersey's Oldest-Living Governor Makes the Rounds with a New Biography", The Wall Street Journal, December 19, 2014.
His father, Francis, spent 50 years in small-town politics in West Orange, a suburb 20 miles from New York City." "It was 1997 and despite the region's revved-up economy, West Orange looked as if it were sliding into the abyss.Perched at the edge of New Jersey's most distressed urban places, this classic postwar suburb of 45,000 citizens faced a welter of seemingly intractable problems." Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011.
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"On November 4, 1980, the communities of West Orange and Montclair voted a change to their township classification beginning in entitlement reconstruction13 (Oct.
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"Under the Federal system, New Jersey's portion of the revenuesharing funds is disbursed among the 21 counties to problematic three 'money pools.' The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945.
"NEW JERSEY HOUSING; A Haven of Anachronistic Calm", The New York Times, December 21, 1980.
The West Branch, begins in West Orange and flows south through South Mountain Reservation and directly through downtown Millburn." Areas touching West Orange, Map - It.
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"Clarion Partners Acquires Essex Green in New Jersey", Shopping Center Business, March 8, 2016.
"Clarion Partners has acquired Essex Green, a six-building, 350,000-square-foot shopping center positioned in West Orange, no-charge and clear of existing debt.
"But the Eastern Professional Hockey League is nevertheless set to debut this weekend in four markets in the Greater New York area, with one of the league's squads based in northern New Jersey.
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3 with a majority vote of 4-1.", West Orange Patch, December 7, 2013.
Mayor Robert Parisi initiated the change last month and recommended the election be moved for various reasons, including trying to save the taxpayers cash and keeping the inhabitants and students of the West Orange School District safe." Township Council, Township of West Orange.
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"Mark and Scott Kelly, who 44 years ago transferred into the second undertaking at Pleasantdale Elementary, returned to West Orange, New Jersey for the renaming of their alma mater.
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"WEST ORANGE: Mike Austin (b.
"New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur honored by General Assembly and Senate", The Star-Ledger, June 18, 2009.
"Brodeur, who lives in Codey's precinct in West Orange, pointed out that he may be a Canadian from Quebec but 'New Jersey is all I've known my whole adult life.'" "Anna Easter Brown Born: Easter Sunday, April 13, 1879, West Orange, NJ" Byrne - another native of West Orange - left office January 1982." "James Chapin was born in West Orange, New York." Manuscript Group 123, Jemima Condict (1754-1779), New Jersey Historical Society.
State landed its third commitment for the Class of 2005 when Brandon Costner, a 6-foot-8, 210-pound power forward from West Orange, N.J., picked the Wolfpack on Wednesday." "'NAUGHTY' GUYS ARE ARRESTED ON GUN CHARGES", New York Daily News, June 14, 1997.
"'Yes, I can,' said Cullen, a slightly built, 46-year-old West Orange native who did not look at the judge or the 21 citizens who addressed him as he sat at the defense table in Somerset County's Historic Courthouse." Degnan, New Jersey Attorney General.
Degnan was born on October 6, 1944 in West Orange, New Jersey." "Webster and Miss Duenkel Gain Diving and Swimming Gold Medals for U.S.; JERSEY GIRL SETS 400-METER MARK She Captures Free-Style in 4:43.3 -- Webster Rallies From 6th in High Diving", The New York Times, October 18, 1964.
"Bob Webster, a 25-year-old diving perfectionist from Santa Ana, Calif., and Ginny Duenkel, a free-style swimmer from West Orange, N.J., won gold medals today for the United States." New Jersey Governor Charles Edison Archived December 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., National Governors Association.
"Charles Edison, the fifty-eighth governor of New Jersey, was born in West Orange, New Jersey on August 3, 1890." Edison, an inventor, surroundingalist and philanthropist who was the last surviving child of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, died on Tuesday at his home in West Orange.
Fernandi lived in West Orange before moving to Millington four years ago." "In fact, it would be safe to say that if he had not started cutting school to hang out in the skate spots of New York the 28-year-old might still be living in his small working-class hometown of West Orange, New Jersey." I was a senior at West Orange Mountain High School in West Orange, New Jersey." "The NJUnderground tipped me to this new video from West Orange's GDP.
"An Act_to change the name of Thomas Frost Haskell: BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly the State of New Jersey, That the name of Thomas Frost Haskell, of the township of West Orange, in the county of Essex, be and the same is hereby changed to Llewellyn Frost Haskell...
"Hawkins, 34, says he's a lifelong West Orange resident who lived in Orange for roughly seven years, including his four years as mayor." "Hayes, from West Orange, rather than her Penn State longterm position with 71 goals and 21 assists in 89 games (80 starts) and had 17 game-winning goals." "The Giants signed Hill, a native of West Orange, New Jersey, in 2012 as a no-charge agent." "Kern was raised in West Orange, NJ and graduated from West Orange High School." "New Jersey's Magic Moments", The New York Times, October 30, 2005.
Emerson began: 'Jerry Goffin and Carole King, at that time a married couple, moved from Brooklyn to West Orange.
"Mason, whose birth name was Georgia Mavropoulos, was born in West Orange, New Jersey, on March 16, 1910, the middle of three daughters of Greek immigrants Peter and Bessie Mavropoulos." "Mc - Clellan House to Go In West Orange, N.J.", The Christian Science Monitor, January 6, 1938.
Minish, Ex-New Jersey Congressman, Dies at 91", The New York Times, November 26, 2007.
Newkirk, I know you were born in Orange, New Jersey on the 12th of June, 1928.
"During the years 1955 and 1956, petitioner's home was in West Orange, New Jersey.
"Onaodowan interval up in West Orange with his parents and five sisters, and attended Gregory Elementary School, Roosevelt Middle School, and West Orange High School, graduating in 2005, school officials said." "Hometown: West Orange, New Jersey" "HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire:' A Dramatic Getaway - New Series Brings Prohibition-Era Atlantic City, N.J., to Life with Historical Accuracy, Lavish Detail", CBS News, September 19, 2010.
Reilly, a native of New York City who later moved to West Orange, N.
"Rizzuto, who would have been 90 in September, died Tuesday from pneumonia after living his last a several years in declining community at a West Orange, N.J., nursing home." "Long jubilated as the earliest Rutgers alumnus, the West Orange resident also was believed to be the most long-lived New Jerseyan and the third-oldest man in the United States, as stated to the Gerontology Research Group, a California organization that tracks the world's most venerable citizens ." "Crown Heights brawl fact, fiction, and plenty of blame", New Jersey Jewish News, June 8, 2006.
Although he has lived in West Orange since 1969, where he and his wife, Daryl, belong to Congregation Ohr Torah and Congregation Ahawas Achim B'nai Jacob and David, metros/cities fascinate him." "Local scholar organizes conference on history of Modern Orthodoxy", New Jersey Jewish News, June 1, 2006.
"Alfredo Silipigni, a conductor and specialist in lesser-known Italian operas who established the New Jersey State Opera and ran it for four decades, died on Saturday in Livingston, N.J.
He was 74 and lived in West Orange, N.J." "Eve Slater was born in 1945 in West Orange, New Jersey." The 50 Greatest New Jersey Sports Figures, Sports Illustrated, December 27, 1999.
"Residence: Raised in South Orange; lived in West Orange; presently lives in Monroe, Middlesex County" "He was really Albert Vilar, not Alberto, from West Orange, New Jersey although he was born to Cuban parents." "The glamorous, dark-haired Ward, a native of West Orange, N.J., began her longterm position as a Roxyette at New York's famed Roxy Theatre in the early 1940s, then headed for Broadway." "JURY TO GET TAX CASE; Judge Holds Jersey Panel Must Pass on Zwillman Charges", The New York Times, February 28, 1956.
"Jersey Man in Abscam Case Is Experienced With Inquiries; Conspiracy Charges Dismissed Two Other Directors From Jersey Started as Tire Salesman Need for Advice Questioned Bid-Rigging Indictment Message Termed Death Threat", The New York Times, March 9, 1980.
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