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Millburn (NJT Station)
Millburn is in active commuter railroad station in Millburn Township, Essex County, New Jersey. Serving trains of NJ Transit's Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch, trains operate from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal to points west, including Dover, Gladstone and Hackettstown. The next station to the west is Short Hills while the next station to the east is Maplewood. Millburn station contains two low-level side platforms with two office buildings fronting the structure, a colonial-style building built in 1962 on the westbound tracks and a modern office building on the eastbound tracks built in 1987. The station also has a ticket agency with a waiting room. The area known as Millburn gained railroad service on September 28, 1837 with the extension of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Orange to Madison. The original station building burned in 1874, replaced by the freight station until 1907, when the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built a new sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Route 527 (New Jersey)
County Route 527 (CR 527) is a County routes in New Jersey, county route in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends from Main Street (New Jersey Route 166, Route 166 and County Route 549 (New Jersey), CR 549) in Toms River, New Jersey, Toms River to Pompton Avenue (New Jersey Route 23, Route 23) in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, Cedar Grove. It passes through more counties (six) than any other county route in New Jersey. CR 527 is also the second longest List of 500-series county routes in New Jersey, 500-series county route in New Jersey after County Route 519 (New Jersey), CR 519. The county route traverses through the northernmost stretches of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Pine Barrens in South Jersey, much of the Raritan River, Raritan Valley and Rahway River, Rahway Valley regions in Central Jersey (providing access to Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Delaware and Raritan Canal State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Hills Station
Short Hills is a New Jersey Transit train station in Short Hills, New Jersey along the Morris & Essex Lines. History The presence of a railroad station at the present site dates from 1879, when Stewart Hartshorn, the developer of what became the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, built a station along the Morris and Essex Railroad line. He built the station at his own expense at a cost of US $2,520.00, took full responsibility for its maintenance (which included paying the salary of the station master), and persuaded the operators of the M&E (actually the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad) to serve his station with two train stops a day. (The United States Post Office operated a station of its own on the premises of Stewart Hartshorn's original station. The USPS' presence in Short Hills dates from that year.) The present facility dates from 1907 after Stewart Hartshorn's original station was demolished.Meisner, Marian. ''A History of Millburn Township.'' Millburn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star-Ledger
''The Star-Ledger'' was the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey. It is based in Newark, New Jersey. The newspaper ceased print publication on February 2, 2025, but continues to publish a digital edition. In 2007, ''The Star-Ledger''s daily circulation was reportedly more than the next two largest New Jersey newspapers combined, and its Sunday circulation was larger than the next three papers combined. It suffered great declines in print circulation in recent years, to 180,000 daily in 2013, then to 114,000 "individually paid print circulation," which is the number of copies being bought by subscription or at newsstands, in 2015. In July 2013, the paper announced that it would sell its headquarters building in Newark. In the same year, Advance Publications announced it was exploring cost-saving changes among its New Jersey properties, but was not considering mergers or changes in publication frequency at any of the newspapers, nor the elimination of home delivery. On Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John L
"John L" is a song by English rock band Black Midi, released in 2021 as the lead single from their second studio album, ''Cavalcade (Black Midi album), Cavalcade''. The song describes the story of a powerful leader, the titular John L, who is eventually betrayed and killed by his followers. It was released on March 23, with the B-side Despair and a music video directed by Nina McNeely. A 12-inch release for the single was made available for pre-order on the same day and released on April 9. The song is one of few on ''Cavalcade'' to have writing credits for guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, written before his departure from the band but recorded after. Composition and recording "John L" is an Avant-garde music, avant-garde progressive rock song described by ''Guitar World'' as "[featuring] dissonant piano chimes, weaving hypnotic vocals, a cacophony of string sounds, and an edge-of-the-seat dynamic range, spanning from complete silence to raucous, high-energy midsections." ''Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Elizabeth is a City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Union County, New Jersey, Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New Jersey County Map , New Jersey Department of State. Accessed December 1, 2022. As of the 2020 United States census, the city retained its ranking as List of municipalities in New Jersey, the state's fourth-most-populous city behind neighboring Newark, New Jersey, Newark, Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, and Paterson, New Jersey, Paterson,The Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships in 2010 in New Jersey: 2000 and 2010 New Jerse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union County, New Jersey
Union County is a County (United States), county in the northern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the county was the state's List of counties in New Jersey, seventh-most-populous countyTable1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022. with a population of 575,345, its highest United States census, decennial count ever and an increase of 38,846 (+7.2%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 536,499. Its county seat is Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey
Springfield Township is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is located on a ridge in northern- central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 17,178, the highest recorded at any decennial census, an increase of 1,361 (+8.6%) from the 2010 census count of 15,817, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,388 (+9.6%) from the 14,429 counted in the 2000 census. Springfield was formed as a township on April 14, 1794, from portions of Elizabeth Township and Newark Township, while the area was still part of Essex County, and was incorporated as one of New Jersey's first 104 townships by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. It became part of the newly formed Union County on March 19, 1857, with portions remaining in Essex County used to create Millburn. Other portions of the township have b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delaware, Lackawanna And Western Railroad
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad, was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with New York City, a distance of . The railroad was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1853, and created primarily to provide a means of transport of anthracite, anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Northeast Pennsylvania to large coal markets in New York City. The railroad gradually expanded both east and west, and eventually linked Buffalo, New York, Buffalo with New York City. Like most coal-focused railroads in Northeastern Pennsylvania, including Lehigh Valley Railroad, New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, and the Lehigh & New England Railroad, the DL&W was profitable during the first half of the 20th century, but its margins were gradually hurt by declining Pennsylvania coal traffic, especially following the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster and competition from trucks following the expansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Station (NJ Transit)
Madison station is a NJ Transit station in Madison, New Jersey. It is located on the Morristown Line. In 1984, the station was listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. The station was built in 1916 after the local government passed an ordinance for $159,000 () with the cooperation of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in the planning of the depot. Much of the road grading caused by the track elevation was funded by private contributions. History 19th century The rail line that currently runs through Madison, New Jersey was founded in 1835 with the Morris and Essex Railroad charter, which was approved by the New Jersey State Legislature on January 29. As part of an agreement during the surveying process, the Morris and Essex was required to stop all trains in Madison. The agreement was finalized in January 1836 by the local Presbyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Station (NJ Transit)
Orange is an active commuter railroad train station in the City (New Jersey), city of Orange, New Jersey, Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, New Jersey. One of two stops in the city (along with Highland Avenue station (NJ Transit), Highland Avenue), it is served by New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines: the Morristown Line to Hackettstown station, Hackettstown and the Gladstone Branch to Gladstone station (NJ Transit), Gladstone for trains from Pennsylvania Station (New York City), New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal. Orange station contains two low-level side platforms and three tracks. Orange station opened on November 19, 1836, with the opening of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Newark Broad Street Station, Newark to Orange. The station served as the western terminus of the line until September 28, 1837, when the railroad started operations west to Madison station (NJ Transit), Madison station. The curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
