Clark, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Clark has no train station of its own. The nearest NJ Transit station is Rahway station on Milton Avenue in Rahway, about 2 miles from central Clark. It is served by the Northeast Corridor Line and the North Jersey Coast Line. Northeast Corridor Line trains run to New York Penn Station, as do most North Jersey Coast Line trains. Bus: NJ Transit route 112 (Clark–New York, timetable issued 7/1/26) stops in Clark, including at Terminal Avenue. It runs through Linden and Roselle, stops in downtown Elizabeth and at Elizabeth's rail station, and ends at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York. Roads: the Garden State Parkway runs through Clark, with Interchange 135 (signed Clark/Westfield) at the Clark Circle. The circle joins Central Avenue, Brant Avenue and Valley Road and has run on traffic lights since the NJ Turnpike Authority redesigned it in 2007–2009. Newark Liberty International Airport is about 11 miles away.

Dr. William Robinson Plantation Museum, 593 Madison Hill Road: a house built around 1690, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as the 'Seventeenth Century Clark House'. The town bought it in 1973. The Clark Historical Society raised the money to restore it in the early 1980s, and it is now open to the public as a museum.; Oak Ridge Park, 136 Oak Ridge Road: a 90-acre Union County park on the Edison border. It was the Oak Ridge Golf Course until it was converted in 2009. It has the Union County Archery Range (the county's only public range), a free disc golf course, and an athletic field opened in 2020 with an eight-lane track.; Homestead Farm at Oak Ridge: a farmstead inside Oak Ridge Park that reaches into Edison, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The oldest part of the house dates to about 1720–1740. The site, once known as Ash Swamp, played a part in the Battle of Short Hills on June 26, 1777.; Robinson's Branch Reservoir (Clark Reservoir): created in 1907 by damming the Robinson's Branch of the Rahway River. It is Union County's largest body of water. The county bought it in 2008 to keep as public open space and is planning its restoration.; Rahway River Parkway: a Union County greenway designed by the Olmsted Brothers and built in 1921–1929. In Clark it includes Bloodgoods Pond, Jacksons Pond and part of Rahway River Park, which is shared with Rahway.; Hyatt Hills Golf Complex, 1300 Raritan Road: a 9-hole golf course, a 50-station driving range and an 18-hole mini golf course. It sits on the former Hyatt Clark Industries plant site, which spans Clark and Cranford.; Esposito Park: a Union County-owned park in Clark; Clark Community Pool: the township's community pool; Clark Public Library, 303 Westfield Avenue; Clark Municipal Building, 430 Westfield Avenue.

Clark Public School District (pre-K through grade 12): Clark Preschool (pre-K), Frank K. Hehnly Elementary School (K–5, 590 Raritan Road), Valley Road Elementary School (K–5, 150 Valley Road), Carl H. Kumpf Middle School (6–8, 59 Mildred Terrace) and Arthur L. Johnson High School (9–12, 365 Westfield Avenue). Students from Garwood attend Arthur L. Johnson for grades 9–12 through a sending/receiving relationship. Private: Mother Seton Regional High School (1 Valley Road) is a girls' Catholic regional high school for grades 9–12 in the Archdiocese of Newark, founded in 1963.

When Rahway was incorporated as a city in 1858, the area that is now Clark became Rahway's 5th Ward. It was split off as a separate township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 23, 1864. It is named for Abraham Clark, a New Jersey signer of the Declaration of Independence, who is buried in Rahway Cemetery.