Westfield, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Westfield station is on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line, between North and South Avenues at the foot of Summit Avenue. Trains run regularly to Newark Penn Station, and a limited number of off-peak trains run through to New York Penn Station. Other trips change at Newark. This is not Midtown Direct service, which runs on the Morris & Essex Lines. Bus: NJ Transit route 113 (Dunellen–New York) stops at the Westfield train station on North Ave at Elm St and runs to the Port Authority Bus Terminal on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Route 59 (Plainfield–Newark) is a local bus through town. Routes 114 and 117 run to New York along U.S. Route 22, just north of town. Roads: Route 28 runs about two miles through town beside the railroad. The Garden State Parkway is reached at Exits 135 and 137. U.S. Route 22 passes just north of town through Mountainside and Springfield and does not enter Westfield.

Downtown Westfield (Downtown Westfield Corp. won a Great American Main Street Award in 2004); Mindowaskin Park: 12.6-acre town park on East Broad Street with a large pond, gazebo, memorial trees and gardens, and an accessible playground; Tamaques Park: 106-acre town park on Lamberts Mill Road with a pond, 0.8-mile jogging path, tennis and pickleball courts, playing fields and playgrounds; Memorial Park on Scotch Plains Avenue, home of the Westfield Memorial Pool and Aquatic Complex; Lenape Park: 450-acre Union County park and wildlife reserve, part of the Rahway River Parkway, that stretches from Westfield into Cranford, Kenilworth and Springfield; Echo Lake Park: Union County park at 1028 Springfield Ave, Mountainside, which the county lists under both Mountainside and Westfield; Echo Lake Country Club: private, member-owned club at 515 Springfield Ave, founded in 1899, with a Donald Ross course finished in 1913; Miller-Cory House Museum: 1740 house at 614 Mountain Avenue, on the National Register since 1972; Stoneleigh Park: enclosed enclave of about 30 houses begun around 1904, listed on the National Register as a historic district in 1988; William Edgar Reeve House (Westfield Historical Society), 314 Mountain Ave, on the National Register since 2006; Westfield station's two historic depot buildings: the north building (1892) and the south building (built 1912 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey); Rialto Center for Creativity, 250 E. Broad St: a performance and arts venue being rebuilt on the historic Rialto site; its own site lists the opening as 2029.

Westfield Public Schools teaches pre-K through grade 12 in 10 schools. They are Lincoln Early Childhood Center (pre-K and kindergarten); six elementary schools for grades 1-5 (Franklin, Jefferson, McKinley, Tamaques, Washington and Wilson); Thomas Alva Edison and Roosevelt intermediate schools for grades 6-8; and Westfield High School for grades 9-12. Holy Trinity School is a Catholic pre-K-8 school in town. It is run by the Holy Trinity, St. Helen's and Our Lady of Lourdes parishes under the Archdiocese of Newark.

Cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family, was born in Westfield on January 7, 1912. A house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue are said to have inspired the Addams Family mansion.