Berkeley Heights, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Berkeley Heights station (161 Sherman Avenue) is on NJ Transit's Gladstone Branch, between Gillette and Murray Hill stations. Murray Hill station is in the Murray Hill section of neighbouring New Providence. Most Gladstone Branch trains start and end at Hoboken Terminal, and a few weekday Midtown Direct trains run directly to New York Penn Station. NJ Transit's Portal cutover notice says weekday Midtown Direct service on the Gladstone Branch will be diverted to Hoboken from Sunday 11 October to Saturday 14 November 2026. The regular schedule resumes on Sunday 15 November, subject to safety testing. Bus: NJ Transit lists NJT bus 986 and Lakeland Bus Lines at Berkeley Heights. The 986 serves Plainfield and Summit, and Lakeland runs commuter buses to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Roads: Interstate 78 runs through the township. Newark Liberty International Airport is about 18 miles east.

Watchung Reservation: a Union County park, part of the county park system designed by the Olmsted Brothers. About 305 acres of it lie in Berkeley Heights. It also includes Lake Surprise, and the Trailside Nature & Science Center is in its Mountainside section.; Deserted Village of Feltville/Glenside Park (9 Cataract Hollow Road, in the Watchung Reservation): on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The grounds are open every day, dawn to dusk.; Littell-Lord Farmstead & Farmhouse Museum (31 Horseshoe Road): the farmhouse was built around 1760. The 18-acre property is owned by the township and houses the Berkeley Heights Historical Society and its museum. On the National Register since 7 March 1979; restoration work began August 2026.; Free Acres: a single-tax community founded in 1910 by Bolton Hall, on the Berkeley Heights–Watchung border.; Nokia Bell Labs Murray Hill campus: the transistor was invented here. The township says Nokia Bell Labs will relocate from the campus to the HELIX Innovation District in New Brunswick by 2028.; Columbia Park (Plainfield Avenue): the largest municipal park, with tennis courts, two baseball fields, basketball courts and a large children's play area.; Passaic River Park: athletic fields on Springfield Avenue.; Berkeley Heights Municipal Complex, 29 Park Avenue (completed December 2020)..

Berkeley Heights Public Schools runs six schools: Mary Kay McMillin Early Childhood Center (pre-K–2), William Woodruff (K–2), Thomas P. Hughes and Mountain Park elementary schools (3–5), Columbia Middle School (6–8) and Governor Livingston High School (9–12, 175 Watchung Blvd.). Mountainside students join Berkeley Heights students at Governor Livingston for grades 9–12. Private options in town include FlexSchool (34 Russo Place), which serves gifted and twice-exceptional students in grades 2–12+. Preschools include Westminster Nursery School, Union Village Montessori School, Diamond Hill Montessori School and Primrose School of Berkeley Heights.

The township was incorporated as New Providence Township by the New Jersey Legislature on 8 November 1809. It later changed its name to Berkeley Heights by referendum, to end confusion with the neighbouring Borough of New Providence. The name is believed to come from a local area already called Berkeley Heights, which in turn is thought to come from Lord John Berkeley, co-proprietor of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674. The township stayed a farming and resort community until AT&T built its Bell Laboratories research facility there in the early 1940s. The transistor was later invented on that campus.