Garwood, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Garwood station is on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line, on Center Street between North and South Avenues. NJ Transit lists one ticket vending machine in the eastbound shelter, no ticket agent, and bike racks. NJ Transit's weekday timetable (as of 8/30/26) shows fewer trains stopping at Garwood than at Westfield or Cranford. Most Garwood trains require a change at Newark Penn Station for New York. Several midday and evening trains are marked "One seat ride service to/from Penn Station New York," but none of the early-morning eastbound Garwood trains carry that mark. Buses: NJ Transit route 113 (Dunellen to New York Port Authority Bus Terminal) lists Garwood among the towns it serves. NJ Transit route 59 (Plainfield to Newark) has a Garwood stop at South Ave. at Center St. Both timetables were issued 7/1/26. Roads: Route 28 (North Avenue) is the main highway through Garwood and connects east to Cranford and west to Westfield.

Garwood station (NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line), Center Street between North and South Avenues; Garwood Sports and Recreation Complex, 140 Myrtle Avenue. Opened December 2014, with a field house, multi-purpose field, basketball court, playground, covered pavilion and picnic area, and walking track.; Unami Park, a Union County park on the south side off Hickory Avenue, with baseball, softball and soccer fields, tennis courts, picnic areas, a playground and restrooms; Hartman Park, 400 block of Second Avenue, with a basketball court, picnic area and playground; Georgiana Memorial Park, corner of Walnut Street and Fourth Avenue, with a gazebo and benches; Garwood Public Library, 411 Third Avenue; Borough administrative offices, 403 South Avenue; Former Aeolian Company factory on North Avenue. Its castle-like front section is being kept as part of a rental-housing redevelopment.; Church of St. Anne, 325 Second Avenue (built 1926); Garwood Presbyterian Church, 341 Spruce Avenue (construction began 1905); Liquid Church of Garwood, 213 Center Street. The congregation was founded in 1907 as St. Paul's, and the building was bought by Liquid Church in 2016.; Crossroads, an independent live-music venue at 78 North Avenue that opened in 1996; The Westwood, a family-owned banquet and event venue at 438 North Avenue. It began in 1962 on the grounds of the former Hotel Scandia..

The Garwood Public School District (Garwood Public Schools) runs Lincoln School at 400 2nd Avenue, which serves pre-kindergarten through grade 8. The district offers universal preschool to selected 3- and 4-year-olds, and holds a lottery only when applications exceed the available spots. Students in grades 9–12 attend Arthur L. Johnson High School in neighboring Clark under a sending/receiving relationship with the Clark Public School District. Garwood students can also apply to the Union County Vocational-Technical Schools. No private or parochial school currently operating in town was found. St. Anne's parish school was erected in 1951 and demolished in 2014.

Garwood broke away from Cranford and Westfield and became a borough on March 19, 1903. Residents had complained about unreliable roads, fire protection and school arrangements, and about paying taxes without self-government. The borough's history page says independence was celebrated with the Aeolian band playing on the schoolhouse steps, lit buildings, bonfires and fireworks. The town is named for Samuel Garwood, who in 1891 formed the Garwood Land and Improvement Company with Central Railroad of New Jersey president John Rogers Maxwell.