Kenilworth, NJ Homes for Sale

Kenilworth has no train station. The closest NJ Transit rail stop is Roselle Park station on the Raritan Valley Line, less than a mile from the Kenilworth border, and the Raritan Valley Line also stops in nearby Cranford and Union. NJ Transit says some weekday Raritan Valley trains run through to New York Penn Station in midday and evening hours. At other times, and on weekends and holidays, riders connect at Newark Penn Station. NJ Transit local bus 58 (Elizabeth–Kenilworth) serves the borough along Kenilworth Boulevard and descends from Kenilworth's early-1900s trolley route. For buses to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, NJ Transit lists route 113 at the Roselle Park and Cranford train stations and route 114 along Route 22 in Hillside, Union and Mountainside. By car, the Garden State Parkway crosses the borough with Interchange 138 at the Boulevard (County Route 509). Michigan Avenue (County Route 617) runs north to Union and U.S. Route 22 and south to Roselle Park and Route 28. Newark Liberty International Airport is about 9 miles away.

Galloping Hill Golf Course, 3 Golf Drive: public course owned by Union County and managed by KemperSports since 2010. It spans Kenilworth and Union Township and opened in 1928 to a design by Willard G. Wilkinson. The county turned it from a 27-hole layout into an 18-hole championship course (the Rees Jones renovation was completed in 2014), added a 9-hole practice facility called The Learning Center, and hosted the 2016 New Jersey State Open there.; Oswald J. Nitschke House, 49 South 21st Street: clapboard farmhouse from about 1880, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. In 2003 the Kenilworth Historical Society moved it 1,500 feet to save it from demolition. The society now runs it as a living-history museum with an heirloom teaching garden.; The Boulevard (County Route 509): Kenilworth's downtown runs along this 120-foot-wide street, which was created under early mayor Oswald J. Nitschke.; Lenape Park: 450-acre Union County wildlife reserve and park on the Rahway River Parkway. The county lists it in Cranford, Kenilworth, Springfield, Union and Westfield. A paved path of about 4.5 miles runs from Mountainside through Echo Lake, Lenape and Black Brook parks and ends near North Michigan Avenue in Kenilworth.; Black Brook Park, 329 North 15th Street: Union County park in Kenilworth with baseball, softball and soccer fields and fishing. Its fountain is pictured on the borough's website.; DiMario Park (listed among Kenilworth's parks in Union County's borough profile); Kenilworth Public Library, 548 Boulevard; Kenilworth Borough Hall, 567 Boulevard.

Kenilworth Public Schools serves Pre-K through grade 12. Its schools are Warren G. Harding Elementary School (426 Boulevard), David Brearley Middle School (grades 6–8) and David Brearley High School (grades 9–12); the middle and high schools share the campus at 401 Monroe Avenue. A two-story addition finished by September 2025 moved sixth grade into the Brearley building, and the middle and high schools became separate schools that month. Winfield Township students attend Brearley High School under a sending/receiving relationship. On November 2, 1999, the district was approved as one of New Jersey's first ten districts in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. St. Theresa School, founded in 1955, is a Roman Catholic school of the Archdiocese of Newark for preschool through grade 8.

In the late 1890s the New Orange Industrial Association bought farmland in Cranford and Union and developed the area as New Orange. Because that name was confused with The Oranges in Essex County, the borough took the name Kenilworth when it was incorporated from parts of Cranford and Union Township on May 13, 1907. The name came from the Kenilworth Club, a local literary society named for Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel. Much later, the former Schering-Plough campus in Kenilworth became Merck & Co.'s global headquarters around 2015. In 2020 Merck announced it would move its headquarters to Rahway by the end of 2023, and the company is now based in Rahway.