Edison, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor Line stops at Edison station, at Plainfield and Central Avenues, half a mile west of Route 27 and east of Kilmer Road. The station is generally described as lying in the Stelton section of South Edison. NJ Transit marks the station as accessible and lists three lots with 797 standard spaces (182, 138 and 477) and 20 accessible spaces. Residents of North Edison may be closer to two other Northeast Corridor stations just outside town: Metropark (100 Middlesex Tpk., Iselin, off Garden State Parkway exit 131A, one block east of Route 27) and Metuchen (Main St. and Woodbridge Ave., Metuchen, also marked accessible). Northeast Corridor trains from Edison run north to Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station, and south to Trenton. Buses: NJ Transit route 48 to Elizabeth and local routes 801, 804, 805, 810, 813, 814 and 819 are listed as serving the township. Highways: about 5 miles of the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95), with Exit 10 in Edison; the southern end of I-287, where it meets the Turnpike; U.S. Route 1; and state Routes 27 and 440. The Garden State Parkway runs through neighboring Woodbridge Township rather than Edison.

Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park (museum and 1938 Edison Memorial Tower, 37 Christie Street); Edison State Park (36 acres; site of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory); Roosevelt Park (196-acre Middlesex County park with an 8-acre lake, at Parsonage Road and Route 1, just west of Menlo Park Mall); Dismal Swamp (about 650 acres of preserved wetlands, mostly in Edison and South Plainfield, with a small part in Metuchen); Oak Tree Pond (site of the Revolutionary War 'Oak Tree Engagement', part of the Battle of Short Hills); Oak Tree Road / Little India (Indian shops and restaurants; the corridor continues into Iselin in Woodbridge Township); Menlo Park Mall (Route 1 and Parsonage Road); JFK University Medical Center (65 James Street); Roosevelt Care Center (long-term and sub-acute care, just east of Roosevelt Park); Middlesex College (Woodbridge Avenue and Mill Road); Raritan Center business park and the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center; Stelton Baptist Church and Cemetery (congregation formed 1689); Piscatawaytown: St. James Church on Woodbridge Avenue and the Piscatawaytown Common; Laing House of Plainfield Plantation (1707 Woodland Avenue; on the National Register of Historic Places since 1988); Plainfield Country Club (private; in Edison despite the name; hosted the 1987 U.S. Women's Open and The Barclays in 2011 and 2015); Edison Public Library (Main Library at 340 Plainfield Ave; North Edison Branch at 777 Grove Ave; Clara Barton Branch at 141 Hoover Ave).

Edison Township Public Schools serves pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in 19 schools: two preschools (PreK-K), 11 elementary schools (mostly K-5; James Madison is split into a K-2 primary school and a 3-5 intermediate school), four middle schools (6-8) and two high schools. Edison High School serves the south of the township and J.P. Stevens High School serves the north. Middlesex County Magnet Schools runs Edison Academy Magnet School (grades 9-12) at 100 Technology Drive on the Middlesex College campus, and the K-8 Greater Brunswick Charter School also serves Edison students. Private and parochial schools in town include: Catholic schools under the Diocese of Metuchen (St. Thomas Aquinas High School, grades 9-12; St. Helena School and St. Matthew School, Pre-K-8); The Wardlaw+Hartridge School (PreK for age 3 through grade 12, founded 1882, 1295 Inman Ave); Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva (2 Harrison St., from age 2 through grade 8, founded 1945); the Edison boys' high school and Beis Medrash branch of Rabbi Jacob Joseph School; Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion (Pre-K-8); and Lakeview School, for students ages 3-21 with disabilities.

Thomas Edison opened his industrial research laboratory, which he called his 'invention factory', at Menlo Park in 1876. The phonograph and a commercially viable incandescent light bulb were developed there. The township says Christie Street, where the Edison Memorial Tower now stands, was the first street lit by incandescent lamps. The town was incorporated as Raritan Township on March 17, 1870, from parts of Piscataway and Woodbridge, and took Edison's name on November 10, 1954. A proposal on the same ballot to rename it 'Nixon' failed.