New Providence is a borough on the northwestern edge of Union County, in the Watchung Mountains. It is generally described as lying on the western slope of the Second Watchung Mountain. It borders Berkeley Heights to the southwest and south and Summit to the east. To the north, across the Passaic River, it borders Chatham Township in Morris County. Much of the Murray Hill neighborhood is in New Providence, and the rest is in Berkeley Heights.
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Union County's borough profile describes an older housing stock that is mostly single-family detached homes lived in by their owners. Most homes, according to a 2008 local newspaper report, were built in the mid-1950s.
NJ Transit's Gladstone Branch of the Morris & Essex Lines stops at two stations in the borough. New Providence station is at 803 Old Springfield Ave., and its municipal lot is at Springfield Ave. & Pittsford Way. Murray Hill station is on Foley Pl. between Floral Ave. and Southgate Rd. Trains serve Hoboken Terminal, and NJ Transit confirms the branch has weekday Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station. For buses, NJ Transit lists its local route 986 and Lakeland Bus Lines at both stations. Lakeland's weekday Route 78 stops along Springfield Avenue on its way to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The main road is Springfield Avenue (County Route 512). No state or interstate highway runs through the borough, but the borough cites close proximity to I-78 and the Garden State Parkway.
Downtown New Providence along Springfield Avenue, including the shopping center at 1260 Springfield Ave. Its owner, Regency Centers, lists it as South Pass Village; it is also known as the Village Shopping Center.; New Providence Presbyterian Church, 1307 Springfield Ave (congregation founded 1737); Salt Box Museum (New Providence Historical Society), 1350 Springfield Ave; New Providence Memorial Library, 377 Elkwood Ave; Oakwood Park, 1 Roessner Place: turf baseball and soccer/lacrosse fields, nature trail, canoe launch, ice-skating pond, bocce court, playground; Lions Park/Playground, 190 Livingston Ave (playground on Constance Rd.); Veterans Memorial Park, South St. (across from Our Lady of Peace Church); Lincoln Field, 347 Elkwood Ave; Passaic River Parkway: Union County parkland along the Passaic River, part of the county park system envisioned by the Olmsted Brothers firm; Murray Hill station: 1890 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western station house, on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places since 1984; New Providence station: the original 1899 DL&W station building still stands; Nokia Bell Labs Murray Hill campus: mostly in Berkeley Heights. The borough says about 45 undeveloped acres are in New Providence, and Nokia is moving to New Brunswick by 2028..
The New Providence School District serves pre-kindergarten through grade 12. It has two K–6 elementary schools, Allen W. Roberts and Salt Brook, plus New Providence Middle School (7–8) and New Providence High School (9–12), which share a building at 1 Pioneer Drive. The Academy of Our Lady of Peace, 99 South St., is a Catholic Pre-K–8 school in the Archdiocese of Newark.
The settlement was first called "Turkey" because of the flocks of wild turkeys in the area. The Presbyterian church was formed by 1737, and in 1759 its crowded balcony collapsed with no one seriously injured. Residents took this as an act of providence, and the town became known as New Providence. It withdrew from New Providence Township and was incorporated as a borough on March 14, 1899.
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