Roselle Park, NJ Homes for Sale

Roselle Park station is on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line, on West Lincoln Avenue; some sources place it at Donald Place, with a second entrance from Locust Street. The line runs between High Bridge and Newark Penn Station, although most weekday trains start or end at Raritan. NJ Transit's weekday timetable (as of 8/30/26) marks some midday and evening trains that stop at Roselle Park as "One seat ride service to/from Penn Station New York. No transfer required." All weekday peak-period trains to and from New York require a change at Newark Penn Station. NJ Transit lists bus 113 (to the Port Authority Bus Terminal) and bus 94 at Roselle Park. It names Linden (3 miles away) and Rahway (4 miles away) as the closest stations on other NJ Transit rail lines. Route 28 (Westfield Avenue) runs through the borough, and the Garden State Parkway passes just beyond its western boundary. The borough says the State of New Jersey has designated it a "Transit Village."

Chestnut Street, which the borough calls its "cultural heart": a historic downtown shopping district known locally as "the Promenade"; Westfield Avenue (Route 28), which the borough calls a busy commercial corridor; Michael Mauri Gazebo Park, where the borough holds events such as its Multicultural and Heritage Music Festival; Herm Shaw Field complex; Acker Park; Casano Community Center, 314 Chestnut Street; Anthony Signorello Youth Center (Department of Recreation), 234 Chestnut Street; Roselle Park Veterans Memorial Library, 404 Chestnut Street; Roselle Park station (NJ Transit Raritan Valley Line); Roselle Park Borough Hall, 110 East Westfield Avenue.

The Roselle Park School District has three elementary schools: Ernest J. Finizio-Aldene Elementary (PreK-5), Robert Gordon Elementary (PreK-5) and Sherman Elementary (K-5). It also runs Roselle Park Middle School (grades 6-8) and Roselle Park High School (grades 9-12, 185 West Webster Avenue), whose teams are the Panthers. The district's website also lists The Roselle Park Preschool. No private or parochial school in the borough was confirmed.

Roselle Park was home to WDY, the first broadcasting station licensed in New Jersey. The station was licensed to RCA, then a subsidiary of General Electric, on September 19, 1921, and operated from GE's Aldene plant in the borough. It broadcast only from December 15, 1921 to February 17, 1922, and Eddie Cantor made his radio debut there in early February 1922. The borough itself was incorporated on March 22, 1901, from parts of Union Township.