Rahway, NJ Homes for Sale

NJ Transit's Rahway Station is on Milton Avenue between Irving and Broad Streets, about half a mile west of Routes 1 & 9. It is served by the Northeast Corridor Line, whose stations include New York Penn Station and Trenton Transit Center, and by the North Jersey Coast Line, which splits from the Northeast Corridor just south of Rahway toward the Shore. NJ Transit lists it as an accessible station with three municipal parking lots, including a 512-space deck on Lewis Street. Rahway was designated an NJDOT Transit Village in 2002. NJ Transit bus 115 runs to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, and bus 48 runs to Elizabeth and Perth Amboy. U.S. Routes 1/9, Route 27 and Route 35 pass through the city, and the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike are each about two miles outside the city limits.

Union County Performing Arts Center (1601 Irving St.): the restored 1928 Rahway Theatre, about 1,300 seats, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, with its original Wurlitzer pipe organ; Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts (360 Hamilton St.): 199-seat UCPAC theater that opened in 2012; Rahway Arts District and Arts District Park (Central Ave. & Irving St.); Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum (1632 St. Georges Ave.): historic tavern building next to Rahway Cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; Rahway River Park (Union County park; running track, sports fields, tennis courts, picnic areas and the Walter E. Ulrich pool); Milton Lake Park (677 Madison Ave.; Union County park with fishing and a walking path); Rahway River Parkway: Union County greenway along the river, designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm, with bike paths along the Rahway River; Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway (865 Stone St.): acute-care hospital and state-designated primary stroke center; Merck & Co. global headquarters on its Rahway research campus (move completed 2024); Rahway Public Library (2 City Hall Plaza); The Watt Hotel (opened 2019 across from the train station); Veterans Memorial Field and the Rahway Recreation Center.

Rahway Public Schools serves pre-K through grade 12. Its schools are Rahway Preschool; four PreK-6 elementary schools (Grover Cleveland, Franklin, Madison and Roosevelt); the Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy (grades 7-8); and Rahway High School (grades 9-12, 1012 Madison Ave.).

The first settlers called the town "Spanktown," and in January 1777 rebels defeated British troops in the Battle of Spanktown. On April 23, 1789, George Washington was received in Rahway by troops from Elizabethtown and Newark on his way to New York City. Rahway was incorporated as a city on April 19, 1858.