Elizabeth, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Elizabeth has two NJ Transit stations, Elizabeth (Midtown, 11 West Grand Street) and North Elizabeth (1180 North Avenue). Both are served by the Northeast Corridor Line and the North Jersey Coast Line. NJ Transit's current timetables (Northeast Corridor as of 8/30/26, North Jersey Coast Line as of 5/31/26) show trains from both stations running through to New York, via Newark Liberty International Airport station, Newark Penn Station and Secaucus Junction. On both lines, Elizabeth is two stops north of Rahway, with Linden in between. Not every train stops at Elizabeth, and the weekend Northeast Corridor timetable shows fewer trains stopping at North Elizabeth than at Elizabeth. NJ Transit reopened Elizabeth station's rebuilt eastbound platform and station house on September 12, 2023. Buses: four NJ Transit routes run to Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal: 111 (New York–IKEA–Jersey Gardens), 112 (Clark–New York), 113 (Dunellen–New York) and 115 (Rahway–New York). Local routes include 62 (Newark–Elizabeth, via Newark Liberty International Airport and Newark Penn Station) and 48 (Elizabeth–Woodbridge–Perth Amboy, which also serves Rahway). Highways: New Jersey Turnpike (I-95), I-278 over the Goethals Bridge to Staten Island, U.S. Route 1&9, and NJ Routes 27, 28, 81 and 439.

Boxwood Hall State Historic Site, 1073 East Jersey Street: a state-run house museum built about 1750. It is a National Historic Landmark as the home of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress in 1782–83.; Belcher–Ogden Mansion, 1046 East Jersey Street: built in 1742 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; Snyder Academy (formerly Elizabethtown Academy, founded 1767): attended by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and now a museum with a 250-seat theater; Mid-Town Historic District (National Register, 1995): the downtown business district, including the 1931 Art Deco Hersch Tower, the Elizabeth Public Library, the Ritz Theatre and Elizabeth station; Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church (Broad Street, built 1783–1793) and St. John's Episcopal Church (61 Broad Street, cornerstone dated 1706); Ritz Theatre & Performing Arts Center, 1148 East Jersey Street: built in 1926 and seats about 2,800; The Mills at Jersey Gardens outlet mall, opened October 21, 1999; Mattano Park: a Union County park in Elizabeth with a county-managed splash pad; Trinitas Regional Medical Center: part of RWJBarnabas Health, it runs two campuses in Elizabeth and was formed in 2000 from St. Elizabeth Hospital and Elizabeth General Medical Center; Elizabeth Public Library: the Main Library at 11 South Broad Street (originally a Carnegie library) plus the Elmora, LaCorte and Elizabethport branches; Goethals Bridge: carries I-278 across the Arthur Kill to Howland Hook, Staten Island. The replacement spans opened in 2017 and 2018..

Public schools are run by Elizabeth Public Schools, which serves Pre-K through grade 12. The district website lists 37 schools: 3 early childhood centers, 20 neighborhood schools, 6 magnet schools and 8 high school academies. The academies are Halsey Health and Public Safety, Alexander Hamilton Preparatory, Elizabeth High School Frank J. Cicarell, J. Christian Bollwage Academy of Finance, John E. Dwyer Technology, JVJ STEM, Thomas Jefferson Arts, and Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical. In-town private school: the Jewish Educational Center at 330 Elmora Avenue teaches nursery through 12th grade in three schools: JEC Lower School (nursery–grade 5), JEC High School (boys, grades 6–12) and Bruriah High School for Girls (grades 6–12).

English settlers founded the town in 1664 as Elizabethtown. It was named for Elizabeth, wife of proprietor Sir George Carteret, not for Queen Elizabeth I, and it served as New Jersey's first capital.