Woodbridge, NJ Homes for Sale

Rail: Metropark station in Iselin (100 Middlesex-Essex Turnpike) is on NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor Line. Amtrak also stops there, and Amtrak lists Acela, Northeast Regional, Keystone Service and Silver Meteor/Palmetto trains. Avenel station (Avenel Street) and Woodbridge station (Pearl Street between Main and Green Streets) are on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line. NJ Transit timetables marked 'as of 9/8/19' show trains on both lines to New York Penn Station, and some Coast Line trains to Hoboken. Buses: NJ Transit 115 (Rahway–New York) and 116 (Perth Amboy–New York) go to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Route 48 runs Elizabeth–Woodbridge–Perth Amboy. Local routes include 801–805 (Metropark), 810 (New Brunswick–Woodbridge Center), 813 (Perth Amboy–Middlesex County College) and 815 (New Brunswick–East Brunswick–Woodbridge Center). Highways: the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95, Exit 11) and the Garden State Parkway (Exits 127–132) meet in the township. US Routes 1 and 9 also run through it and merge as Route 1&9 north of town, along with Routes 27, 35, 184 and 440. The Parkway's Driscoll Bridge and Route 9's Edison Bridge cross the Raritan River to Sayreville.

Downtown Woodbridge (Main Street business district), with Town Hall at 1 Main Street; Barron Arts Center, 582 Rahway Avenue, in the 1877 Barron Library building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Avenel Performing Arts Center, 150 Avenel Street, opened in 2019 near the Avenel train station; Woodbridge History Museum, run by the Historical Association of Woodbridge Township and open Sundays 1–4 p.m.; Parker Press Park, Woodbridge Proper: James Parker's restored building with an old working printing press, and a summer concert series. Parker set up New Jersey's first permanent printing house in Woodbridge in 1751.; Cross Keys Tavern, where George Washington spent the night of April 22, 1789, on his way to his inauguration. The building still stands; it was moved to the north side of James Street.; Jonathan Singletary Dunham House, built near the site of New Jersey's earliest gristmill; Woodbridge Community Center, 600 Main Street: NHL-size ice rink, roller rink, 25-yard pool, batting cages and Skyline Mini Golf; Ernest L. (Ernie) Oros Wildlife Preserve, dedicated in 2013, covering 67 acres along the Woodbridge River; Woodbridge River Park, about 40 acres downstream of Port Reading Avenue; Heards Brook Park, in the center of Woodbridge; Merrill Park, a Middlesex County park on Fairview Avenue in Colonia, along the South Branch of the Rahway River; Middlesex Greenway, a 3.5-mile rail trail from Metuchen through Edison to Girl Scout Park in the Fords/Keasbey section; part of the East Coast Greenway; Woodbridge Township Marina, Cliff Road, Sewaren; Woodbridge Center mall, at Route 1 and Route 9; Oak Tree Road ('Little India'), a South Asian commercial strip in Iselin that continues into Edison; Metropark office district in Iselin; Woodbridge Public Library: Main Library plus the Fords, Henry Inman and Iselin branches; St. James Catholic Church, founded in 1860.

Woodbridge Township School District serves pre-K through grade 12. It has 16 elementary schools for grades K–5 (Kennedy Park School #24 also has pre-K) and five middle schools for grades 6–8: Avenel, Colonia, Fords, Iselin and Woodbridge. Its three high schools, all grades 9–12, are Colonia High School, John F. Kennedy Memorial High School in Iselin and Woodbridge High School, plus the RISE (Reaching Individual Student Excellence) program for grades 9–12. Middlesex County Magnet Schools runs Woodbridge Academy Magnet School (grades 9–12) in the township, and eighth graders anywhere in Middlesex County may apply.

Woodbridge is the oldest original township in New Jersey. It was settled in the autumn of 1664 and received a charter from King Charles II on June 1, 1669. It is named for the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Massachusetts.