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Edison, New Jersey
Township
Edison Tower
Edison station
JFK Medical Center
Little India
Menlo Park Mall
Roosevelt Hospital
Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge
Benjamin Shotwell House
St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Flag of Edison, New Jersey
Flag
Official seal of Edison, New Jersey
Seal
Nickname: 
"Birthplace of the Modern World"
Motto(s): 
"Let There Be Light"
"Birthplace of Recorded Sound"[1]
Location of Edison in Middlesex County highlighted in red (left). Inset map: Location of Middlesex County in New Jersey highlighted in orange (right).
Location of Edison in Middlesex County highlighted in red (left). Inset map: Location of Middlesex County in New Jersey highlighted in orange (right).
Census Bureau map of Edison, New Jersey Interactive map of Edison, New Jersey
Census Bureau map of Edison, New Jersey
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Interactive map of Edison, New Jersey
Edison Township is located in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Edison Township
Edison Township
Location in Middlesex County
Edison Township is located in New Jersey
Edison Township
Edison Township
Location in New Jersey
Edison Township is located in the United States
Edison Township
Edison Township
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 40°31′39″N 74°23′36″W / 40.5274°N 74.3933°W / 40.5274; -74.3933
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyMiddlesex
Settled1651
IncorporatedMarch 17, 1870 (as Raritan Township)
RenamedNovember 10, 1954 (as Edison Township)
Named forThomas Edison
Government
[6]
 • TypeFaulkner Act Mayor-Council
 • BodyTownship Council
 • MayorSamip Joshi (D, term ends December 31, 2025)[2][3]
 • AdministratorSonia Alves-Viveiros[4]
 • Municipal clerkCheryl Russomanno[5]
Area
[7]
 • Total30.69 sq mi (79.49 km2)
 • Land30.06 sq mi (77.86 km2)
 • Water0.63 sq mi (1.63 km2)  2.05%
 • Rank88th of 565 in state
4th of 25 in county[7]
Elevation
[8]
39 ft (12 m)
Population
 (2020)[9][10]
 • Total107,588
 • Estimate 
(2023)[9][11]
106,836
 • Rank6th of 565 in state
1st of 25 in county[12]
 • Density3,578.2/sq mi (1,381.6/km2)
  • Rank187th of 565 in state
14th of 25 in county[12]
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP Codes
08817, 08818, 08820, 08837, 08899[13][14]
Area code(s)732 and 908[15]
FIPS code3402320230[7][16][17]
GNIS feature ID0882166[7][18]
Websitewww.edisonnj.org

Edison is a township located in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Situated in Central New Jersey within the core of the state's Raritan Valley region, Edison is a commercial hub (home to Menlo Park Mall and Little India) and is a bedroom community of New York City within the New York metropolitan area.[19]

As of the 2020 United States census, the township was the state's sixth-most-populous municipality,[20] with a population of 107,588,[9][10] an increase of 7,621 (+7.6%) from the 2010 census count of 99,967,[21][22] which in turn reflected an increase of 2,280 (+2.3%) from the 97,687 counted in the 2000 census.[23]

What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway and Woodbridge Township. The township got its original name from the Raritan indigenous people. Portions of the township were taken to form Metuchen on March 20, 1900, and Highland Park on March 15, 1905. The name was officially changed to Edison Township on November 10, 1954, in honor of inventor Thomas Edison, who had his main laboratory in the Menlo Park section of the township.[24]

History

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Early history

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Stelton Baptist Church and Cemetery, the second oldest Baptist Church in New Jersey and the tenth oldest in the United States.[25][26][27]

The earliest residents of the area were the Raritan people of the Lenape Native Americans, who lived in the area and travelled through it to the shore. In 1646, Chief Matouchin led a group of 1,200 warriors.[28]

Edison Township, which was formed from sections of Piscataway and Woodbridge townships, was settled (by Europeans) in the 17th century. The earliest village was Piscatawaytown, which is centered around St. James Church and the Piscatawaytown Common, near the intersection of Plainfield and Woodbridge Avenues in South Edison.[29] The Laing House of Plainfield Plantation (listed on the National Register in 1988), the Benjamin Shotwell House (listed 1987) and the Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge (liste 1995), are buildings from the colonial era included in National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County.[30]

The community was previously known as "Raritan Township", not to be confused with the current-day Raritan Township in Hunterdon County.[24]

The Edison era

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Replica of Edison's lab where he invented the first commercially practical light bulb. Henry Ford, Edison's longtime friend, built it at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan.

In 1876, Thomas Edison set up his home and research laboratory in New Jersey on the site of an unsuccessful real estate development in Raritan Township called "Menlo Park", (currently located in Edison State Park). While there he earned the nickname "the Wizard of Menlo Park". Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1,093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent light bulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric light.[31]

The Menlo Park lab was significant in that was one of the first laboratories to pursue practical, commercial applications of research.[32] It was in his Menlo Park laboratory that Thomas Edison came up with the phonograph and a commercially viable incandescent light bulb filament. Christie Street was the first street in the world to use electric lights for illumination.[33] Edison subsequently left Menlo Park and moved his home and laboratory to West Orange in 1886.[34]

20th century

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Near Piscatawaytown village, a portion of the township was informally known as "Nixon", after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, Nixon established a massive volatile chemicals processing facility there, known as the Nixon Nitration Works. It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 people and destroyed several square miles of the township.[35]

In 1954, the township's name was changed to honor inventor Thomas A. Edison.[24][36] Also on the ballot in 1954 was a failed proposal to change the community's name to Nixon.[37]

In 1959, the Menlo Park Mall, a two-level super regional shopping mall, opened on U.S. Route 1.

21st century

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Menlo Park Mall

Edison has been one of the fastest-growing municipalities in New Jersey. As of the 2000 United States Census, it was the fifth most-populated municipality in the state, after the cities of Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, and Elizabeth.[38]

Edison is primarily a middle-class community with more than 75 ethnic communities represented. Edison has a large Jewish community next to Highland Park, with multiple synagogues located in Edison. Edison also has a growing Indian community and a number of temples serving the religious needs of the community. Reflecting the number of Edison's residents from India and China, the township has sister city arrangements with Shijiazhuang, China,[39] and Baroda, India.

Edison was ranked the 28th most-livable small city in the United States by CNN Money magazine, and second in New Jersey in 2006 in Money magazine's "Best Places To Live".[40] In 2008, two years later, Money ranked the township 35th out of the top 100 places to live in the United States.[41] In the 2006 survey of America's Safest Cities, the township was ranked 23rd, out of 371 cities included nationwide, in the 13th annual Morgan Quitno survey.[42] In 2009, Edison was ranked as one of "America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up" by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings focused on low crime, strong schools, green spaces, and abundance of recreational activities.[43] In 2014, parenting.com ranked Edison as the top safest city in America.[44]

Geography

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Roosevelt Park in Edison

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 30.69 square miles (79.49 km2), including 30.06 square miles (77.86 km2) of land and 0.63 square miles (1.63 km2) of water (2.05%).[7][45]

Edison is on the east side of Raritan Valley (a line of communities in central New Jersey), along with Plainfield, and completely surrounds the borough of Metuchen, making it part of 21 pairs of "doughnut towns" in the state, where one municipality entirely surrounds another.[46] The township borders the municipalities of East Brunswick, Highland Park, New Brunswick, Piscataway, Sayreville, South Plainfield and Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County; Clark, Plainfield and Scotch Plains in Union County.[47][48][49]

Edison has numerous sections and neighborhoods.[50] Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Bonhamtown, Briarwood East, Camp Kilmer, Centerville,[citation needed] Clara Barton, Eggert Mills[citation needed], Greensand, Haven Homes, Lahiere, Lincoln Park, Lindenau, Martins Landing, Menlo Park, Millville, New Dover, New Durham, Nixon, North Edison, Oak Tree, Phoenix, Potters, Pumptown, Raritan Arsenal, Raritan Manor, Sand Hills, Silver Lake,[citation needed] Stelton, Stephenville, Valentine, and Washington Park.[50]

Edison is about halfway between Midtown Manhattan, and New Jersey's capitol, Trenton, being about 27 miles from both.

While the Township's topography is mostly flat, there are some hillier areas, especially along the Perth Amboy Moraine, which forms an arc across the township, left by the southern limit of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The highest point is on Grandview Avenue, which reaches a maximum elevation of about 220 feet. The lowest elevation in the township is on sea level on the Raritan River.

The Robinsons Branch of the Rahway River flows through Edison en route to the Robinson's Branch Reservoir.[51]

Climate

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Extreme temperatures in Edison have ranged from −17 °F (−27 °C), recorded in February 1934, to 106 °F (41 °C), recorded in July 1936 and August 1949. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Edison has a Humid Subtropical climate (Cfa) with abundant rainfall throughout the year although the late summer months tend to have more rain. Summers tend to be hot and humid with a lot of rain and Winters tend to be cool to cold with snow being an annual occurrence with snow falling multiple times every winter.

Climate data for Edison, New Jersey
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 73
(23) 		76
(24) 		88
(31) 		97
(36) 		99
(37) 		101
(38) 		106
(41) 		106
(41) 		105
(41) 		94
(34) 		86
(30) 		77
(25) 		106
(41)
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) 39
(4) 		42
(6) 		51
(11) 		62
(17) 		72
(22) 		81
(27) 		86
(30) 		84
(29) 		77
(25) 		66
(19) 		55
(13) 		43
(6) 		63
(17)
Daily mean °F (°C) 31
(−1) 		33
(1) 		42
(6) 		51
(11) 		61
(16) 		70
(21) 		75
(24) 		74
(23) 		66
(19) 		55
(13) 		45
(7) 		35
(2) 		53
(12)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) 23
(−5) 		25
(−4) 		32
(0) 		41
(5) 		50
(10) 		60
(16) 		65
(18) 		63
(17) 		56
(13) 		44
(7) 		36
(2) 		28
(−2) 		44
(6)
Record low °F (°C) −8
(−22) 		−17
(−27) 		1
(−17) 		18
(−8) 		29
(−2) 		37
(3) 		44
(7) 		40
(4) 		31
(−1) 		22
(−6) 		9
(−13) 		−7
(−22) 		−17
(−27)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 4.02
(102) 		3.02
(77) 		4.10
(104) 		3.94
(100) 		4.71
(120) 		3.97
(101) 		5.39
(137) 		4.34
(110) 		4.54
(115) 		3.80
(97) 		4.04
(103) 		3.76
(96) 		49.63
(1,261)
Source: [52]

Demographics

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Asian community

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Edison hosts one of the region's main centers of Asian American cultural diversity.[53][54][55] The township was 50.0% ethnically Asian by population as of the 2020 Census.[56]

Indian community

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Oak Tree Road is a South Asian-focused commercial strip in Middlesex County, the U.S. county with the highest concentration of Asian Indians.[57][58][59] The Oak Tree Road strip runs for about one-and-a-half miles through Edison and neighboring Iselin in Woodbridge Township, near the area's sprawling Chinatown and Koreatown, running along New Jersey Route 27.[60] It is the largest and most diverse South Asian cultural hub in the United States.[61][62] In Middlesex County, election ballots are printed in English, Spanish, Gujarati, Hindi, and Punjabi.[63] As part of the 2020 Census, 34.9% of Edison residents identified themselves as being Indian American, an increase from 28.3% in 2010.[64][21] In the 2000 Census, 17.75% of Edison residents identified themselves as being Indian American, the highest percentage of Indian-American people of any municipality in the United States with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.[65]

Chinese community

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Edison also has a significant Chinese population. The town contains several Chinese-language schools and cultural associations. The area near the borders with Highland Park and the Livingston Campus at Rutgers University in Piscataway, has a number of Chinese food establishments, including Kam Man Food, 99 Ranch Market, and various dim sum, dumpling, dessert, and tea shops as well as the pan-Asian Korean-founded supermarket, H Mart.[66][67] Other Chinese operations in Edison include Sino Monthly magazine and Chinese News Weekly.

The township's Lunar New Year parade typically travels northbound from Division Street to festivities in Papaianni Park by the lake and township municipal building.[68][69]

Historical population

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Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
18703,460—
18803,7899.5%
18903,018−20.3%
19002,801*−7.2%
19102,707*−3.4%
19205,419100.2%
193010,02585.0%
194011,47014.4%
195016,34842.5%
196044,799174.0%
197067,12049.8%
198070,1934.6%
199088,68026.3%
200097,68710.2%
201099,9672.3%
2020107,5887.6%
2023 (est.)106,836[9][11]−0.7%
Population sources: 1870–1920[70]
1870[71][72] 1880–1890[73]
1890–1910[74] 1910–1930[75]
1940–2000[76] 2000[77][78]
2010[21][22][38] 2020[9][10]
* = Lost territory during previous decade.[24]

2020 census

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Edison, New Jersey – Racial and ethnic composition
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1990[79] Pop 2000[80] Pop 2010[81] Pop 2020[82] % 1990 % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
White alone (NH) 67,919 54,461 39,577 28,304 76.59% 55.75% 39.59% 26.31%
Black or African American alone (NH) 4,784 6,458 6,631 7,764 5.39% 6.61% 6.56% 7.22%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 95 85 186 219 0.11% 0.09% 0.19% 0.20%
Asian alone (NH) 11,983 28,541 43,092 57,687 13.51% 29.22% 43.11% 53.62%
Pacific Islander alone (NH) N/A 31 31 27 N/A 0.03% 0.03% 0.03%
Other race alone (NH) 60 263 202 629 0.07% 0.27% 0.20% 0.58%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) N/A 1,622 2,136 2,187 N/A 1.66% 2.14% 2.03%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,839 6,226 8,112 10,771 4.33% 6.37% 8.11% 10.01%
Total 88,680 97,687 99,967 107,588 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Map of racial distribution in Edison, 2020 U.S. census. Each dot is one person: ⬤ White ⬤ Black ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Multiracial ⬤ Native American/Other

2010 census

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Amboy Avenue in the Clara Barton neighborhood of Edison

The 2010 United States census counted 99,967 people, 34,972 households, and 26,509 families in the township. The population density was 3,339.0 per square mile (1,289.2/km2). There were 36,302 housing units at an average density of 1,212.5 per square mile (468.1/km2). The racial makeup was 44.10% (44,084) White, 7.05% (7,046) Black or African American, 0.23% (229) Native American, 43.19% (43,177) Asian, 0.04% (36) Pacific Islander, 2.72% (2,718) from other races, and 2.68% (2,677) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 8.11% (8,112) of the population.[21]

Of the 34,972 households, 36.4% had children under the age of 18; 62.3% were married couples living together; 9.6% had a female householder with no husband present and 24.2% were non-families. Of all households, 20.4% were made up of individuals and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.26.[21]

22.7% of the population was under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.1 years. For every 100 females, the population had 95.8 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 93.8 males.[21]

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $86,725 (with a margin of error of +/− $3,000) and the median family income was $100,008 (+/− $2,624). Males had a median income of $66,898 (+/− $4,094) versus $50,953 (+/− $1,462) for females. The per capita income for the township was $36,464 (+/− $1,184). About 3.5% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.6% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.[83]

2000 census

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As of the 2000 United States census[16] there were 97,687 people, 35,136 households, and 25,881 families residing in the township. The population density was 3,243.0 inhabitants per square mile (1,252.1/km2). There were 36,018 housing units at an average density of 1,195.7 per square mile (461.7/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 59.49% White, 29.27% Asian, 6.89% African American, 0.14% Native American, .04% Pacific Islander, 2.02% from other races, and 2.15% from two or more races. 6.37% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.[77][78]

There were 35,136 households, out of which 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living in them, 61.1% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.3% were non-families. 21.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.72 and the average family size was 3.19.[77][78]

In the township 22.9% of the population was under the age of 18, 7.8% was from 18 to 24, 34.0% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males.[77][78]

The median household income in the township is $69,746, and the median income for a family was $77,976. Males had a median income of $53,303 versus $36,829 for females. The per capita income for the township was $30,148. About 3.3% of families and 4.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.3% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.[77][78]

Economy

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Raritan Center is a 2,300-acre (930 ha) business park.

Manufacturing

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A number of production facilities in and around the area, included Edison Assembly, Ford Motor Company's production plant for Rangers, Mustangs, Pintos, Mercurys, and Lincolns. Other notable companies included Frigidaire's air-conditioner plant in Edison, Siemens in Edison.

Starting in the 2000s, manufacturing began to leave Central Jersey, and many facilities closed and moved overseas.[84][85][86] The Ford plant was demolished by 2008 and was replaced by Sam's Club, Topgolf and Starbucks.[87]

Corporate presence

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Majesco Entertainment, a video game company, has its corporate headquarters in Edison.[88] Other companies have warehouse operations within Edison. These companies include the Italian food producer and importer Colavita, an Amazon fulfillment center, as well as the regional hubs for FedEx, UPS, and Newegg. In addition Edison is home to the state's largest private convention center, the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, located within the Raritan Center Business Park.[89] Raritan Center itself is the largest industrial park on the east side of the Mississippi River. The United States headquarters of the international company Zylog Systems is located in Edison,[90] as is the headquarters of the e-commerce companies Boxed and Bare Necessities.[91]

Sports

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Plainfield Country Club is a private country club that has hosted the 1987 U.S. Women's Open and The Barclays golf tournament, the first PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoff event, in both 2011 and 2015.[92]

Parks and recreation

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Oak Tree Pond is the site of the Battle of Short Hills, a minor battle of the American Revolutionary War and whose conversion into a park ended a real estate development controversy.[93]

Roosevelt Park, located between Parsonage Road and Route 1, west of the Mall, covers 196 acres (79 ha), including the 8-acre (3.2 ha) Roosevelt Park Lake. The park was established in 1917, making it the oldest county park in Middlesex County.[94]

Edison State Park and Dismal Swamp are also located in the township.

Government

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Local government

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Edison Township operates within the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under the Mayor-Council form of government, which was implemented as of January 1, 1958, based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission.[95] The township is one of 71 municipalities (of the 564) statewide governed under this form.[96] Edison's governing body is comprised of the mayor and the seven-member Township Council. Members of the council are elected at-large in partisan elections held as part of the November general election to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three or four seats coming up for election in odd-numbered years, with the mayoral seat up for vote at the same time that three seats are expiring.[6][97][98]

As of 2024, the Mayor of Edison is Democrat Samip "Sam" Joshi, whose term of office ends December 31, 2025.[2] Members of the Township Council are Council President Nishith Patel (D, 2025), Council Vice President Margot Harris (D, 2025), Richard Brescher (D, 2027), Joseph Coyle (D, 2027), Ajay Patil (D, 2027) and John Poyner (D, 2025) and Asaf Shmuel (D, 2027).[99][100][101][102]

The first (and to-date, only) female mayor of Edison was Antonia "Toni" Ricigliano, whose term of office ended on December 31, 2013.[103][104]

Election 2017

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Former Edison Democratic Chair and Detective Keith Hahn ran for mayor as a Republican[105] against incumbent Mayor Thomas Lankey. Lankey was re-elected with 12,032 votes to Hahn's 8,574 votes.[106]

Election 2016

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In June 2016, the Township Council selected Joseph Coyle from a list of three candidates nominated by the Democratic municipal committee to fill the seat expiring in December 2019 that had been held by Robert Karabinchak, until he stepped down from office to take a vacant seat in the New Jersey General Assembly.[107] Coyle served on an interim basis until the November 2016 general election, when voters elected him to fill the balance of the term of office.[108]

Election 2005

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Running on a good government platform and a call to reform the Democratic Party, Jun Choi won the June 2005 primary by a 56–44% margin, defeating longtime incumbent Mayor George A. Spadoro, the first time in Edison history that a challenger won the Democratic primary.[109] An article in The American Prospect details aspects that Choi brought together in his 2005 mayoral campaign, including 1. attracting new voters into the process, 2. a good government message, 3. anti-Wal-Mart or economic justice theme and 4. an effective Internet-based progressive mobilization.[110] In the general election, Jun Choi declared victory, leading in unofficial results with a vote of 12,126 to 11,935; a recount effort was unsuccessful. On January 1, 2006, at age 34, Choi was sworn in by Governor Jon Corzine as the youngest mayor in Edison history.[111]

Recent politics in Edison have concerned plans for zoning the township to facilitate the creation of "walkable" communities that will attract businesses, while still maintaining open spaces and parks and easy access to commuter transit. This strategy is meant to encourage "Smart Growth".[112]

Politics in Edison since the 2005 mayoral election have been polarized by an attempt by retail giant Walmart to open a store in central Edison near the junction of Interstate 287 and New Jersey Route 27. Even though Jun Choi stated in his mayoral campaign that he would stop Walmart from being built, Walmart filed suit and won, and Choi was there to cut the yellow ribbon when the store was opened.[113]

Law enforcement

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The town is served by the full-time Edison Division of Police, led by Chief Thomas Bryan and employing 168 officers as of 2012, assisted by the Edison Auxiliary Police.[114] The department is striving to overcome a history of widespread officer misconduct.[115][116][117][118][119][120]

Federal, state, and county representation

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Edison is located in the 6th Congressional District[121] and is part of New Jersey's 18th state legislative district.[122][123][124]

For the 118th United States Congress, New Jersey's 6th congressional district is represented by Frank Pallone (D, Long Branch).[125][126] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027)[127] and George Helmy (Mountain Lakes, term ends 2024).[128][129]

For the 2024-2025 session, the 18th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Patrick J. Diegnan (D, South Plainfield) and in the General Assembly by Robert Karabinchak (D, Edison) and Sterley Stanley (D, East Brunswick).[130]

Middlesex County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners, whose seven members are elected at-large on a partisan basis to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election. At an annual reorganization meeting held in January, the board selects from among its members a commissioner director and deputy director.[131] As of 2024, Middlesex County's Commissioners (with party affiliation, term-end year, and residence listed in parentheses) are:

Director Ronald G. Rios (D, Carteret, 2024),[132] Deputy Director Shanti Narra (D, North Brunswick, 2024),[133] Claribel A. "Clary" Azcona-Barber (D, New Brunswick, 2025),[134] Charles Kenny (D, Woodbridge Township, 2025),[135] Leslie Koppel (D, Monroe Township, 2026),[136] Chanelle Scott McCullum (D, Piscataway, 2024)[137] and Charles E. Tomaro (D, Edison, 2026).[138][139]

Constitutional officers are: Clerk Nancy Pinkin (D, 2025, East Brunswick),[140][141] Sheriff Mildred S. Scott (D, 2025, Piscataway)[142][143] and Surrogate Claribel Cortes (D, 2026; North Brunswick).[144][145][146]

Politics

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As of March 2011, there were a total of 53,352 registered voters in Edison Township, of which 25,163 (47.2%) were registered as Democrats, 6,242 (11.7%) were registered as Republicans and 21,929 (41.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 18 voters registered to other parties.[147]

Presidential elections results
Year Republican Democratic Third Parties
2020[148] 37.4% 15,986 61.6% 26,335 1.0% 239
2016[149] 36.2% 13,483 61.0% 22,707 2.8% 1,031
2012[150] 36.3% 12,769 62.8% 22,104 1.0% 339
2008[151] 39.3% 14,986 58.8% 22,409 1.1% 418
2004[152] 43.1% 15,615 55.2% 20,000 0.6% 311

In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 62.8% of the vote (22,104 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 36.3% (12,769 votes), and other candidates with 1.0% (339 votes), among the 35,546 ballots cast by the township's 54,857 registered voters (334 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 64.8%.[153][154] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 58.8% of the vote (22,409 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 39.3% (14,986 votes) and other candidates with 1.1% (418 votes), among the 38,129 ballots cast by the township's 55,305 registered voters, for a turnout of 68.9%.[151] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 55.2% of the vote (20,000 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 43.1% (15,615 votes) and other candidates with 0.6% (311 votes), among the 36,205 ballots cast by the township's 52,308 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 69.2.[152]

Gubernatorial elections results
Year Republican Democratic Third Parties
2021[155] 39.7% 9,684 59.3% 14,484 1.0% 253
2017[156] 39.4% 8,382 58.5% 12,453 2.1% 451
2013[157] 58.6% 12,502 39.3% 8,373 2.1% 443
2009[158] 46.6% 11,230 44.5% 10,727 7.4% 1,792
2005[159] 38.3% 10,166 55.1% 14,636 3.8% 1,002

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 58.6% of the vote (12,502 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 39.3% (8,373 votes), and other candidates with 2.1% (443 votes), among the 21,877 ballots cast by the township's 55,392 registered voters (559 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 39.5%.[157][160] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 46.6% of the vote (11,230 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 44.5% (10,727 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 6.4% (1,549 votes) and other candidates with 1.0% (243 votes), among the 24,097 ballots cast by the township's 53,358 registered voters, yielding a 45.2% turnout.[161]

Education

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Edison Academy Magnet School
St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Middlesex County College

Public schools

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The Edison Township Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.[162] The district's two high schools separate the south and north ends of Edison. In the Edison High School zone to the south, there are six K–5 elementary schools and two 6-8 middle schools, while in the J.P. Stevens High School zone to the north there are five K–5 elementary schools and two 6-8 middle schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of 19 schools, had an enrollment of 16,268 students and 1,215.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1.[163] Schools in the district (with 2021-22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[164]) are Edison Early Learning Center[165] (53 students; grades PreK-K), Franklin D. Roosevelt Preschool[166] (124; PreK-K), Benjamin Franklin Elementary School[167] (602; K-5), Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School[168] (618; K-5), Lincoln Elementary School[169] (900; K-5), Lindeneau Elementary School[170] (444; K-5), James Madison Primary School[171] (455; K-2, who then move on to James Madison Intermediate) James Madison Intermediate School[172] (521; 3–5), John Marshall Elementary School[173] (736; K-5), Menlo Park Elementary School[174] (796; K-5), James Monroe Elementary School[175] (521; K-5), Washington Elementary School[176] (589; K-5), Woodbrook Elementary School[177] (902; K-5), John Adams Middle School[178] (980; 6–8, from James Madison Intermediate and MLK Jr.), Herbert Hoover Middle School[179] (911; 6–8, from Franklin, Lincoln, Monroe, and some Lindeneau), Thomas Jefferson Middle School[180] (868; 6–8, from Lindeneau, Marshall and Washington), Woodrow Wilson Middle School[181] (1,163; from Menlo Park and Woodbrook), Edison High School[182] (2,243; 9–12, from Hoover and Jefferson) and J.P. Stevens High School[183] (2,643; 9–12, from Adams and Wilson).[184][185]

J.P. Stevens was the 80th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 65th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed, while Edison High School was ranked 174 in 2012 and 169 in 2010.[186] According to U.S. News & World Report in 2016, J.P. Stevens ranked 41st within New Jersey and 905th nationally, while Edison H.S. ranked 59th and 2,015th.[187][188]

The community is also served by the Greater Brunswick Charter School, a K–8 charter school serving students from Edison, Highland Park, Milltown and New Brunswick.[189] As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 399 students and 32.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1.[190]

Eighth grade students from all of Middlesex County are eligible to apply to attend the high school programs offered by the Middlesex County Magnet Schools, a county-wide vocational school district that offers full-time career and technical education at Edison Academy Magnet School in Edison and at magnet schools in Woodbridge Township, East Brunswick, Perth Amboy and Piscataway. There is no tuition charged to students for attendance.[191][192] Middlesex College is home to the Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies, an engineering-based high school, which is part of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools. The high school is covered by tax dollars and so there is no additional cost for all Middlesex County residents, but admission is based on a test, past grades, and other academic and extracurricular activities. About 160 students, 40 per grade from around the county attend the academy.[193]

Private schools

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St. Thomas Aquinas High School (9–12), St. Helena School (Pre-K–8) and St. Matthew School (Pre-K–8) operate under the supervision of Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen.[194] Jewish schools in the township, which all operate independently, include Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva (Pre-K–8, founded in 1945)[195] and Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion (Pre-K–8, opened in 1992).[196]

Other private schools in Edison include Lakeview School (for children ages 3–21 with disabilities),[197] Our Lady of Peace School and Wardlaw-Hartridge School (Pre-K–12, founded in 1882).[198]

In 1998, the Huaxia Edison Chinese School, which teaches in Simplified Chinese on Sunday afternoons, was established in Thomas Jefferson Middle School, subsequently relocating to Herbert Hoover Middle School. Huaxia currently resides in Edison High School. However, many families from Taiwan send their children to Edison Chinese School, located at John Adams Middle School, or Tzu Chi, located at Woodrow Wilson Middle School. These schools both teach Traditional Chinese. J.P. Stevens High School offers Mandarin Chinese and Standard Hindi as an elective language for students who are interested in learning it.

Colleges

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Lincoln Tech is a for-profit vocational school located in Edison.[199] Lincoln Tech offers various programs in Nursing and in medical and computer applications.

Middlesex College is a public, two-year community college located in Edison at the intersection of Woodbridge Avenue and Mill Road.[200]

Rutgers University's Livingston campus is located on the former Camp Kilmer, partially located in Edison.[201]

Libraries

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Edison has three public library branches: The Main Branch, North Edison Branch and the Clara Barton Branch.[202]

Infrastructure

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Transportation

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Roads and highways

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View south along the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) in Edison

Edison is a transport hub, with an extensive network of highways passing through the township and connecting to major Northeast cities, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Trenton and Washington, D.C..[203] Edison is located about 25 miles (40 km) from Newark Liberty International Airport, a 30 to 45 minute drive.

As of May 2010, the township had a total of 307.05 miles (494.15 km) of roadways, of which 257.31 miles (414.10 km) were maintained by the municipality, 29.78 miles (47.93 km) by Middlesex County and 14.75 miles (23.74 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 5.21 miles (8.38 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.[204]

State roads include Route 27[205] and 440,[206] both of which are state-maintained. U.S. Route 1 also passes through the township.[207] Interstate 287 passes through Edison, where it houses its southern end at I-95.[208] The municipality also houses about a 5-mile (8.0 km) section of the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95).[209] Exit 10 is located in Edison, featuring a 13-lane toll gate and a unique interchange design.[210] When the "dual-dual" setup of the turnpike was created, it first started in Edison and continued north to Exit 14 in Newark. It wasn't until 1973 that the "dual-dual" was extended south of 10 to Exit 9 in East Brunswick Township (and then extended further south in 1990 to Exit 8A in Monroe Township).

Since Interstate 287 connects to Interstate 87 (the New York State Thruway), Exit 10 (of the turnpike) is one of the busiest interchanges to be used by tractor-trailers as it connects the New Jersey Turnpike to the New York Thruway. For truck drivers, it is the only direct limited-access road connection they have from the Turnpike to the Thruway as the Garden State Parkway, which has its northern terminus at the Thruway, prohibits trucks from using the roadway north of Exit 105.

In 2009, the New Jersey Department of Transportation selected Edison as one of the first communities to have a red light camera enforcement system. The program was ended by the state in December 2014, despite a more than 30% drop in accidents at the three camera-controlled intersections in the township.[211]

Public transportation

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Edison station

Edison station, located in South Edison, is served by NJ Transit northbound trains to Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station, and southbound to the Trenton Transit Center via the Northeast Corridor Line, with connecting service to Amtrak, and SEPTA.[212][213] Some passengers in North Edison are closer to, and may prefer to use, the Metropark station (near neighboring Iselin in Woodbridge Township) or Metuchen station.[214][215]

NJ Transit bus service is provided on the 48 route to Elizabeth, with local service available on the 801, 804, 805, 810, 813, 814, and 819 routes.[216]

The Taiwanese airline China Airlines provides private bus service to John F. Kennedy International Airport from the Kam Man Food location in Edison to feed its flight to Taipei, Taiwan.[217]

Healthcare

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JFK Medical Center

JFK Medical Center, located on James Street off Parsonage Road is a 498-bed hospital founded in 1967.[218]

Roosevelt Care Center is a long term/sub-acute care facility located just east of Roosevelt Park. The facility was original constructed in 1936 under the auspices of the Work Projects Administration.[219]

Edison is served by the Raritan Valley Regional EMS. The squad consists of three sub-squads, Edison First Aid Squad #1 (established in 1935), Edison First Aid Squad #2 (since 1936) and Clara Barton First Aid Squad (since 1951). The three squads merged in 2009 to better provide residents of Edison with more comprehensive care. RVREMS receives support from paramedics out of JFK Medical Center. The squad consists of approximately 50 volunteer EMTs.[220]

Telecommunications

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Edison is served by area codes 732 and 848 and 908. Area Code 848 is an overlay area code that was created so that a split was not needed.

Edison has five Verizon Central offices serving the Township:

  • Central Office Rahway (Switch ID: RHWYNJRADS5) (Area Code 732): Serving from Wood Avenue North to Roxy Avenue on the west side of the Street inward to New Dover Road.
  • Central Office Plainfield (Switch ID: PLFDNJPFDS5) (Area Code 908): Serving Roxy Avenue heading north into South Plainfield on both sides of Inman Avenue.
  • Central Office Metuchen (Switch ID: MTCHNJMTDS5) (Area Code 732): Serving Edison, Metuchen and Iselin (Technically Iselin Numbers that have 732–283 and 732–404 are routed out of the Woodbridge Office Switch ID: WDBRNJWDDS5).
  • Central Office Edison (Switch ID: EDSNNJEDDS5): Serving South Edison with phone numbers that come up as "New Brunswick" – 732–339, 732–393, 732–572, 732–777, 732–819, 732–985, and Exchanges for "Metuchen" that are 732–248, 732–287, 732–650.
  • Central Office Fords (Switch ID: FRDSNJFRDS5): Serving Eastern Edison area and Raritan Center areas with 732–225, 732–346, 732–417, 732–512 and Perth Amboy Exchanges 732–661, 732–738.

In 1982, the BPU and New Jersey Bell, after receiving thousands of complaints from both North and South Edison residents, made an exception that any calls originating and terminating in the Township would be considered a local call. This was due to the new home construction in Edison where existing cables that belonged to the Rahway central office were assigned to give new phone service to over 400 homes.

In 1997, mandatory ten-digit dialing came to Edison with the introduction of Area code 732. Edison residents living on Roxy Avenue once again were in the spotlight in the news, with one side of the street served by the Rahway central office (Area code 732) and the other side of the street is served by the Plainfield central office (Area Code 908). Residents complained to the BPU and Bell Atlantic that it would be easier to yell across the street than dial a ten-digit number to call their neighbor across the street.

Edison has Cablevision's Optimum cable television service. Before Cablevision, there was TKR, which was so poorly run that many FCC and BPU complaints about programming and many town hall meetings eventually forced change. TKR was bought out by Cablevision.

Sister cities

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Notable people

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See also: Category:People from Edison, New Jersey

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Edison include:

Notable places

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See also

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  230. ^ Al Chez – Brass Consultant, The Bushwackers, backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 6, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2017. "When the family moved to Edison N.J. his father helped start up a local drum corps called The Saints."
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  242. ^ Konick, Emery Jr. "Stevens grad receives coaching honor", Home News Tribune, July 3, 2003. Accessed April 14, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Greg Gigantino of Hofstra has been honored as an AFLAC National Assistant Football Coach of the Year, an honor he accepts with a sense of humility.... For 26 years the Edison native has served as a graduate assistant, assistant or associate head coach at five different colleges."
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  244. ^ Olivier, Bobby. "N.J. pop star Halsey was magnetic in her largest home-state concert yet" Archived October 15, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 28, 2017. Accessed February 8, 2018. "Before she was Halsey, the Grammy-nominated alt-pop songstress who sold out Madison Square Garden last summer and scored her first No. 1 album this past June, she was Ashley (Halsey being an anagram) Nicoletta Frangipane, born Sept. 29, 1994 at JFK Medical Center in Edison, to parents who had met and married at Fairleigh Dickinson University."
  245. ^ Bauwens, Erica. "South Jersey Justice", South Jersey Magazine, August 2013. Accessed August 28, 2024. "I was raised in Edison, and when we were deciding where we could live, the chance to come back to Jersey was something I couldn’t turn down."
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  249. ^ Jordan, Chris. "R&B singer Pamela Long tells the Total story", Asbury Park Press, March 26, 2012. Accessed March 28, 2013. "'(Today) everybody's jumping back on and piggy backing on what the next person is doing,' said Long, a native of Edison."
  250. ^ Moriarty, Thomas. "Trump will name this Christie ally from Jersey to federal judgeship" Archived January 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, April 10, 2018, updated January 30, 2019. Accessed January 21, 2021. "Matey, a 47-year-old who was born in Edison and raised in Rahway, spent four years under Christie at the U.S. Attorney's Office before joining him in Trenton."
  251. ^ Cartoonist Patrick McDonnell Archived September 22, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, PBS, July 9, 2010. Accessed September 17, 2017. "The world of all those characters mirrors his own world in Edison, New Jersey, one acre of tranquility where deer often graze and a cat sleeps on a nearby window sill—reminders, says McDonnell, of this stillness all around and that true happiness is found in simple things."
  252. ^ Staff. "Earl Schenck Miers Dies at 62; Wrote on Civil War and Lincoln" Archived September 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, November 19, 1972. Accessed September 17, 2017. "Edison, N.J. Nov. 18 – Earl Schenck Miers, an author and editor best known for his writings on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, died yesterday at his home. His age was 62."
  253. ^ Victor Mitchell Archived May 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Project Vote Smart. Accessed March 22, 2012.
  254. ^ Akash Modi Archived December 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, USA Gymnastics. Accessed August 11, 2019. "Birthplace: Edison, NJ USA Hometown: Morganville, NJ USA Name of High School: High Technology High School High School Graduation Year: 2013"
  255. ^ Brittany Murphy – Interview, Interview, May 2000. "Breathy and infectious, Murphy, an only child raised by her mom in Edison, New Jersey, was in a bind the night we talked in a Manhattan apartment."
  256. ^ Emling, Shelley. "Stand-up Comic Jim Norton, a New Jersey Boy, Returns to the Wellmont", Verona-CedarGrove Patch, March 3, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 19, 2011. Accessed September 17, 2017. "Although he now lives in New York City, he grew up in Edison and says he's still a Jersey boy at heart."
  257. ^ My story Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Margie Palatini. Accessed March 22, 2012. "As Zoey Zinevich would say, 'here's the spill.' I grew up in Edison, New Jersey. Yup. It's named after Thomas you-know-who, (He invented the light bulb, phonograph, movie camera, etc. etc. – lots of etc.) and his first laboratory was in Edison, then called Menlo Park."
  258. ^ Armstrong, Lois. "In the Kitchen With ... Robert Pastorelli; After Leaving Murphy Brown, the Man Who Played Eldin the Painter Returns to a Familiar Role (well, Sort Of) as a Celebrity Chef" Archived April 25, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, People, June 27, 1994. Accessed April 4, 2016. "His mom provided the recipe for zucchini parmigiana, one of Bobby's favorites when he was growing up in Edison, N.J."
  259. ^ Zach Perez Archived April 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, William Paterson Pioneers. Accessed October 10, 2019. "Hometown: Edison, N.J. ... as a captain and was named the team's Most Valuable Player as a junior at Rutgers Prep ... Won a Greater Middlesex County title at Edison H.S. during his freshman campaign"
  260. ^ Jeffers, Glenn. "Shutout In Relief Better Than Shut-Eye", Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1997. Accessed March 22, 2012. "Marc Pisciotta got the call around 11:45 Thursday night. The right-handed pitcher was going to Chicago. ... 'I had to go into the clubhouse for some coffee,' said the Edison, NJ, native, who turned 27 Thursday."
  261. ^ Caiazza, Tom. "Five million miles and one heck of a view: Astronaut returns after space flight; township names day in his honor" Archived December 12, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Woodbridge Sentinel, May 9, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2017. "Polansky, an Edison native and graduate of J.P. Stevens High School, returned to his alma mater Monday after commanding STS-116, the space shuttle mission to the International Space Station last December."
  262. ^ Jordan, Chris. "Drummer Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie has kept the time to your life", Asbury Park Press, October 4, 2013. Accessed October 5, 2013. "Purdie eventually moved to Jersey — Teaneck and Edison before settling in Springfield."
  263. ^ Feuer, Ryan. "Comedian Retta talks Jersey roots, Parks and Rec and Geeks Who Drink", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 16, 2015. Accessed October 8, 2024. "'Growing up in Jersey makes you a little bit ballsier, a little more outspoken,' says the comedian/actress, who was born in Newark and raised in Edison and Cliffwood Beach."
  264. ^ Foster, Stella (July 3, 2008). "Goode times". Chicago Sun-Times. p. 39.
  265. ^ King, Hope. "The $2.5 billion high school" Archived January 19, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, CNN, August 31, 2015. Accessed March 11, 2022. "Chieh Huang, Matt Salzberg, and Ken Chen graduated just a few years before me.... We grew up in central New Jersey. We went to J.P. Stevens, a public high school in Edison."
  266. ^ Thomas, Bob via Associated Press. "Film Was Revelation For Susan Sarandon" Archived February 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, The Palm Beach Post, April 24, 1981. Accessed October 9, 2013. "The new film Atlantic City displays the underside of that reviving New Jersey resort, and it's a world that actress Susan Sarandon has visited. She grew up in Edison, N.J., an hour's drive distant, but before the movie, she had never seen Atlantic City, old or new."
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  269. ^ "Always Too Much and Never Enough: How a New Yorker found her authentic self through veganism and juicing" Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, New York Daily News, March 4, 2016. Accessed November 26, 2019. "Like many of us, Jasmin Singer had a complicated relationship with food growing up, which she details in her memoir, Always Too Much and Never Enough. The Edison, N.J., native found comfort in junk food while dealing with the divorce of her parents."
  270. ^ Staff. "B-Mets Plan 'Giant' Event For Chris Snee Day" Archived July 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, OurSportsCentral.com, April 15, 2008. Accessed October 16, 2011. "After high school, the son of Montrose residents Diane & Ed Snee earned a full scholarship to Boston College. After redshirting his first year, the Edison, NJ-born lineman evolved into a three-year starter for the Eagles and an All Big East performer before making himself eligible for the NFL Draft in January 2004."
  271. ^ Chang, Kathy. "Edison's TV station marks 20 years of broadcasting" Archived September 22, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, Edison Sentinel, September 21, 2011. Accessed September 17, 2017. "Then, in 1994, with Mayor George Spadoro's vision, the township sent its tapes to TKR Cable and began airing a segment called Focus on Edison as well as Township Council meetings and specials."
  272. ^ Joel Stein – Columnist Archived May 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times. Accessed October 9, 2013. "Joel Stein is desperate for attention. He grew up in Edison, N.J., went to Stanford and then worked for Martha Stewart for a year."
  273. ^ McFadden, Robert D. "Robert T. Stevens, Former Army Secretary, Dies At 83" Archived March 9, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, February 1, 1983. Accessed March 8, 2018. "Robert T. Stevens, a former Secretary of the Army who became a major figure in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings that led to the condemnation of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the collapse of his anti-Communist campaigns, died Sunday at his home in Edison, N.J."
  274. ^ Isaac, Dave. "Edison's Stolarz to be first NJ goalie to play in NHL" Archived October 1, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, Courier-Post, November 26, 2016. Accessed March 7, 2023. "Anthony Stolarz has been thinking about Sunday for a long, long time.... Selected in the second round of the 2012 draft, the Edison-born player will be the first goalie from New Jersey to play in an NHL game."
  275. ^ Jim Stoops Archived July 30, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, The Baseball Cube. Accessed December 3, 2019. "Born Date: June 30,1972 [47.156] Place: Edison, New Jersey"
  276. ^ Questionnaire For Judicial Nominees: Jennifer Sung Archived December 25, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Accessed October 14, 2021. "Birthplace: State year and place of birth. 1972; Edison, New Jersey"
  277. ^ Haley, John. "Q and A session with Marques Townes of St. Joseph (Met.), what sport will he play in college?" Archived October 1, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, The Star-Ledger, January 28, 2014. Accessed March 26, 2018. "So that was the first thing I addressed with Townes, who grew up in Rahway, moved to South Amboy in the fifth grade and who now lives in Edison."
  278. ^ Haley, John. "Karl Towns of St. Joseph (Met.) is The Star-Ledger boys basketball state Player of the Year, 2013-14" Archived October 4, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The Star-Ledger, March 30, 2014. Accessed April 23, 2017. "When a New York City television station was following around a political figure who was visiting newborn babies at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, the crew was immediately drawn to Towns. He was the biggest kid in the nursery, weighing 10 pounds, measuring 25 inches in length with huge feet."
  279. ^ Chang, Kathy. "Vallely brings skating stunts home to Edison: Many come out to enjoy pro skateboarding tour stop" Archived September 22, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, Edison Sentinel, August 11, 2010. Accessed September 17, 2017. "edison — After about a dozen times attempting a 360-degree knee flip-and-grab trick on his skateboard, Mike Vallely, a professional skateboarder and township native, threw his hands up. ... Vallely's hometown was the 13th of 24 stops on the inaugural Glory Bound Skatepark Tour."
  280. ^ Friend, Tad. "V-Va-Va-Voom!" Archived March 31, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The New Yorker, June 7, 2010. Accessed August 30, 2023. "He thumped his heart. 'I was born in the Soviet Union, and we were poor when we came here' — to Edison, New Jersey — 'so it's incredible to me that that many people are interested.'"
  281. ^ King, Wayne. "Legislators Vote to Ban Photo Radar For Speeders" Archived August 29, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, June 12, 1992. Accessed August 29, 2019. "Another sponsor of the bill, Assemblyman Jeffrey Warsh, Republican of Edison, called the device 'nothing less than a full, frontal assault on the system of American jurisprudence' that would overturn 'the tradition that we are innocent until proven guilty.'"
  282. ^ Staff. "Darrin A. Winston, 42, of Clarksburg in Millstone Township", Asbury Park Press, August 17, 2008. Accessed September 4, 2008. "Darrin A. Winston, 42, of Clarksburg in Millstone Township, passed away Friday, Aug. 15, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold Township. Born in Passaic, he lived in Edison before moving to Millstone Township 10 years ago."
  283. ^ Sullivan, William J. "Edison native Jeremy Zuttah making impact on O-line for Bucs" Archived July 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Star-Ledger, November 10, 2008. Accessed October 16, 2011. "Jeremy Zuttah was a sturdy presence during his Rutgers career, starting 40 of 44 games in his four seasons on the offensive line for the Scarlet Knights. Now, the Edison native has quickly made his presence felt in the NFL as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers."
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  285. ^ Chang, Kathy; and Kesten, Karen L. "Birth of a town" Archived September 22, 2023, at the Wayback Machine Edison Sentinel, December 30, 2009. Accessed September 17, 2017. "The Bonhamtown section of Edison was named after Nicholas Bonham, a freeholder from 1682 to 1683. In his book Welcome to Edison – An Enlightening Community, David C. Sheehan writes that Bonhamtown at the time was 'a hamlet town [of few homes], which is said to have been the site of an old Indian Village and later a Continental Army camp and battleground during the Revolution.'"
  286. ^ Camp Kilmer Archived September 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, National Archives at New York City. Accessed March 22, 2012. "Toward the end of 1941, with the threat of war imminent, the War Department chose a site between Edison and Piscataway, New Jersey as a staging area for troops."
  287. ^ Dismal Swamp Archived June 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Sierra Club. Accessed March 22, 2012. "The Dismal Swamp (located in Edison, Metuchen, and South Plainfield) is 660 acres and is designated a 'priority wetland' by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."
  288. ^ McFadden, Robert D. "Explosion In Edison: The Overview; New Jersey Pipeline Explosion Sets Off Panic, Chaos and Fear" Archived September 22, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, March 25, 1994. Accessed March 22, 2012. "About 100 people suffered burns or were felled by smoke, 2,000 residents of Edison and nearby Metuchen were evacuated and about 300 lost their homes and all their possessions in the blast of undetermined origin. It occurred just before midnight Wednesday in a buried, 36-inch pipeline that supplies natural gas from Texas to much of New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area."
  289. ^ Staff. "State Orders Edison Landfill Shut" Archived November 5, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, June 28, 1977. Accessed November 4, 2018. "The State Department of Environmental Protection ordered today that Kin-Buc Inc. in Edison Township stop accepting solid waste and close its land-fill operation within 30 days."
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  291. ^ Caiazza, Tom. "DEP finds hazardous materials in ILR landfill: Contaminants were found on site of proposed 500K-sq.-ft. warehouse" Archived September 22, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, Edison Sentinel, March 7, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2017. "The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a pair of violations to Industrial Land Reclaiming Inc., owners of the landfill of the same name, for hazardous waste that was found in the soil outside of the landfill wall."
  292. ^ Superfund Site: Kin-Buc Landfill; Edison Township, NJ Archived April 5, 2023, at the Wayback Machine, Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed September 17, 2017. The Kin-Buc Landfill Superfund Site is located in Edison Township, New Jersey. The 220-acre Site is composed of an inactive landfill that operated from the late 1940s to 1976. From 1971 to 1976, the Site was a State-approved landfill for industrial and municipal wastes, both solid and liquid. The Site accepted hazardous waste during this period, until the State revoked its permit in 1976 due to the violation of several environmental statutes."
  293. ^ Dudley, William L. The Story of the Friends in PlainfieldIncludingA History of Early Quaker Families Archived July 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Rahway & Plainfield Friends (Quaker) Meeting, March 29, 1929. Accessed March 24, 2015. "The Laing family composed a prominent part of the first permanent settlers in this neighborhood. John Laing, the progenitor of this long line in East Jersey, came over from Craigforth, Aberdeen County, Scotland, August 1685, landing in Amboy, near which place for a few years he lived with his wife Margaret and his children, John, Abraham, William, Christiana and Isabel. In 1698 he moved to 'the Plains' near where South Plainfield now is. His son John married, in 1708, Elizabeth Shotwell, a direct descendent of the original Abraham Shotwell. His daughter Isabel, in 1700, married Joseph Fitz Randolph, son of Nathaniel."
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