South Orange
WHY LIVE IN SOUTH ORANGE?
If you watch old movies on television on AMC or TCM, movies from the 30’s or 40’s, films starring Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy or classics like It Happened One Night or The Best Years of Our Lives, there is always a constant feature in the background: the perfect town. It is a clean and sunny village that has a river running through it, a tranquil place that is both prosperous and tidy, with a tree-lined main street filled with friendly merchants, a courthouse square dotted with gaslights, and wooded neighborhoods with fine houses on ample lawns, all within a couple of minutes of the post office, the library, and the stores. You might think that this ideal town is an American fiction, a dream or a memory from days gone by, something that exists only in Leave it to Beaver or Mister Smith goes to Washington, but how surprised you would be if you entered the Township of South Orange.
Okay, maybe Jimmy Stewart isn’t the mayor and you don’t see Mickey Rooney riding his bike, slinging newspapers on to front lawns or delivering groceries, or Fred Mac Murray the high school principal, but it is certainly a village devoted to small-town ideals, without commercial squalor from one end to the other. And yes, South Orange has a river running through it and more operating gaslights than any other community in the United States. It also has a Division 1 university, Seton Hall, sixty-two acres of parkland, five baseball diamonds, 15 lighted tennis courts, a soccer field, duck pond, playgrounds, Baird Community Center and a fine outdoor pool complex and a favorite sledding hill. Plus a local school system that is considered one of the best in the state. Homes currently for sale in South Orange, New Jersey.
South Orange Parking Permits.
Come on. Don’t you want to walk to the train every morning? It’s great exercise.
No.
Ok. Well here’s the info on getting a parking permit in South Orange.
South Orange- Parking Permits are available at the Parking Authority Office, Second Floor of Village Hall, (973) 378-7715. Residential commuter permits (6am -10 pm) are available monthly [...]
Searching for James Betelle.
Sometimes places and people from our past come rushing back to us like fireballs scorching our cerebrospinal fluid — cutting the memory line and getting all in our face.
James Betelle was a noted architect of many schools in New Jersey. His firm Guilbert & Betelle was responsible Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey among [...]
South Orange Jitney. Gettin’ People to the Midtown Direct.
So, you’re thinking of moving to South Orange, New Jersey. Great choice. It’s a happening place with a wide variety of housing options. Some of these homes are close to South Orange Train Station — others not so close. For those in the “not so close” areas, South Orange has a wonderful Jitney that shuttles [...]
Leave a comment | Keep Reading»Maplewood / South Orange Rubber Duck Race.
Ready - Set - Float. The infamous Memorial Day Duck Races will be happening in Memorial Park this Monday from 11:00AM to 12:00 PM.
Sponsored my the South Orange / Maplewood Kiwanis, the duck races are always huge crowd pleaser. This will be my first time attending, so I’m totally psyched.
By the way, there will [...]
Midyear Housing Market Update From the National Association of Realtors.
I just received this video link. It has a positive outlook on the housing market. It’s NAR’s Chief Economist Lawrence Yun being interviewed by NAR President Elect Charles McMillan.
I hope this is true.
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Midtown Direct Train to Manhattan.
Ever wonder what it might look like from the front car on the Midtown Direct train?
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Live like American Royalty in Seven Oaks.
In almost every state there special places, little microcosms, areas that even long time residents have never seen. Case in point — “Seven Oaks.” Located on the South Orange border, this small area of Orange New Jersey was once home to American royalty such as the Colgates.
With a wide array of grand old homes, [...]
Leave a comment | Keep Reading»Grocery Shopping without losing your mind. Try Pathmark in South Orange, New Jersey.
For the past six months I have found it almost impossible to go shopping with my two year old son. He wants everything off of every shelf. And if he doesn’t get it — watch out.
Well, Thank god for Pathmark in South Orange. They have shopping carts with little cars for children attached to the [...]
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