Union, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Union station on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line is at 900 Green Lane, off Morris Avenue (Route 82) and across from Kean University. NJ Transit lists it as accessible, with two parking lots. It opened on April 28, 2003. Trains run to Newark Penn Station. NJ Transit's weekday timetable 'as of 8/30/26' marks some trains, mainly midday and evening, as a one-seat ride to and from Penn Station New York with no transfer required. On other trains, including the weekday peak trains, you change at Newark Penn for New York, Secaucus or Hoboken. NJ Transit lists the closest stations on other lines as Elizabeth (Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line, about 2 miles), Maplewood (Morris & Essex Lines, about 4 miles), Millburn (about 5 miles) and Rahway (about 6 miles). Buses: NJ Transit lists routes 113, 114 and 117 to the Port Authority Bus Terminal at various stops in Union, and local routes 26 and 52 at Union station. Highways: the Garden State Parkway, Interstate 78, U.S. Route 22 and Route 82 (Morris Avenue).

Kean University main campus (the college moved to Union from Newark in 1958); its Liberty Hall Campus is across Morris Avenue; Liberty Hall Museum, 1003 Morris Ave, on Kean's Liberty Hall Campus: home of Gov. William Livingston, built 1772, a National Historic Landmark; Caldwell Parsonage, 909 Caldwell Ave: a 1782 house museum and headquarters of the Union Township Historical Society, with free admission; Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church, 888 Stuyvesant Ave at West Chestnut St: the congregation built its first church in 1730; British forces burned it in June 1780 and it was rebuilt after the war; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970; Union Center business district along Morris and Stuyvesant Avenues, served by the Union Center Special Improvement District (a 501(c)(3) formed in 1993); DMK Black Box Theater: a 160-seat venue that opened in 2025 at the Union Arts Center, 1980 Morris Ave, in Union Center; Kean Stage and Premiere Stages (performing arts at Kean University); Union Watersphere: a 212-ft water tower built in 1964 beside U.S. Route 22, Route 82 and the Garden State Parkway; Galloping Hill Golf Course: an 18-hole course run by Union County, covering 271 acres in Kenilworth and Union; Biertuempfel Park (1300 Winslow Ave); Alpine Park (2199 Halsey St); Anthony Terrezza Park (250 Tucker Ave); Veterans Honor Roll and Memorial Park (1000 Wewanna Ave), one of the township's historical-marker sites; Thomas Edison's experimental poured-concrete houses on Ingersoll Terrace.

Township of Union Public Schools (TUPS) serves PreK through grade 12. The district describes its elementary schools as kindergarten through grade 4 and names Battle Hill, Connecticut Farms, Hannah Caldwell, Livingston and Washington. Jefferson Elementary is its one grade-5 school. Burnet and Kawameeh Middle Schools cover grades 6-8, and Union High School covers grades 9-12. The TUPS PreK Center is at the Franklin school site, 1550 Lindy Terrace, and TUPS says preschool places for 2026-2027 are assigned by lottery. Kean University's main campus is in the township.

The area was settled in 1667 as Connecticut Farms. On June 7, 1780, during the Battle of Connecticut Farms, a shot fired through a bedroom window of the parsonage killed Hannah Caldwell, wife of Rev. James Caldwell. British forces then burned the parsonage and the Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church. An artist's version of her death appears on the official seal of Union County. The Township of Union was incorporated on November 23, 1808, from parts of Elizabeth Township, and became part of the new Union County in 1857.