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Township
Township of Nutley
Nutley Memorial Parkway
Location in Essex County and the state of New Jersey.
Census Bureau map of Nutley, New Jersey
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Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Essex
Incorporated	February 18, 1874, as Franklin Township
Reincorporated	March 5, 1902, as Nutley
Government
• Type	Walsh Act
• Body	Board of Commissioners
Area
• Total	3.42 sq mi (8.86 km2)
• Land	3.37 sq mi (8.74 km2)
• Water	0.05 sq mi (0.12 km2)  1.37%
Area rank	316th of 565 in state 13th of 22 in county
Elevation	52 ft (16 m)
Population  (2010 Census)
• Total	28,370
• Estimate  (2019)	28,434
• Rank	79th of 566 in state 10th of 22 in county
• Density	8,384.1/sq mi (3,237.1/km2)
• Density rank	43rd of 566 in state 7th of 22 in county
Time zone	UTC– 05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC– 04:00 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP Code	07110
Area code(s)	973
FIPS code	3401353680
GNIS feature ID	1729715

Nutley is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 28,434.

What is now Nutley was originally incorporated as Franklin Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1874, from portions of Belleville Township. Nutley was incorporated as a town on March 5, 1902, replacing Franklin Township. In 1981, the town was one of seven Essex County municipalities to pass a referendum to become a township, joining four municipalities that had already made the change, of what would ultimately be more than a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships in order take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater share of government aid to municipalities on a per capita basis.

Nutley derived its name from the estate of the Satterthwaite family, established in 1844, which stretched along the Passaic River and from an artist's colony in the area.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Nutley as its 38th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.

History

Former railroad station at Franklin Avenue

Annie Oakley performing at an amateur circus at Nutley in 1894, to raise funds for the Red Cross

Nutley grew slowly as Newark developed. The first European settler in the area, recorded in the minutes of a Newark town meeting in 1693, was a Dutch painter named Bastian Van Giesen. His house, known as Vreeland Homestead, still stands today on Chestnut Street and is the location of the Nutley Women's Club. John Treat and Thomas Stagg purchased lots adjacent to Van Geisen's in 1695 and 1698 respectively. The Van Riper House is another building from the era.

The first brownstone quarry in Nutley is believed to have been in operation by the early 18th century and was the town's first major industry. Jobs at the brownstone quarry in the Avondale section of Nutley provided work for many Italian and Irish immigrants. Mills situated along the Third River in the area now known as Memorial Park I became Nutley's second major industry.

John and Thomas Speer, Joseph Kingsland, and Henry Duncan all operated mills in the town during the 1800s. Current streets in Nutley are named after these mill owners. Henry Duncan built several mills throughout the town and established the village of Franklinville consisting of 30 homes and a few small businesses which later became the center of Nutley. One of Duncan's buildings has been modified and now serves as the town hall. Kingsland Manor is a national historic place.

During the late 1880s, painter Frank Fowler founded an artists' colony on The Enclosure, a dead-end street that is near the Third River, a stream that runs through the town's parks. Later artist residents of the street included Frederick Dana Marsh, Reginald Marsh and muralist Michael Lenson. Gary T. Erbe, a Trompe-l'œil painter, currently resides there.

Nutley's current town historian, John Demmer, is the author of the book in the "Images of America" series titled Nutley; Demmer is also part of The Nutley Historical Society, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serve the educational, cultural and historical needs of the community. The Nutley Historical Society manages the operation of The Nutley Historical Museum, housed in a former town schoolhouse at 65 Church Street.

Several other historical works on Nutley have been written by local historians, notably the late Ann Troy's Nutley: Yesterday - Today; "Nutley" by Marilyn Peters and Richard O'Connor in the "Then and Now" series; and books about the Nutley Velodrome. Local resident Chris Economaki wrote extensively about the Nutley Velodrome in his autobiographical racing history Let Them All Go! as the Velodrome was the first racetrack he had visited as a child.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 3.428 square miles (8.878 km²), including 3.384 square miles (8.764 km²) of land and 0.044 square miles (0.114 km²) of water (1.28%).

Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Avondale, Franklin, Glendale and Younticaw.

The township borders Belleville and Bloomfield in Essex County; Lyndhurst in Bergen County; and Clifton in Passaic County.

Demographics

Census 2010

As of the census of 2010, there were 28,370 people, 11,314 households, and 7,660 families residing in the township. The population density was 8,384.1 per square mile (3,237.1/km²). There were 11,789 housing units at an average density of 3,484.0 per square mile (1,345.2/km²)^*. The racial makeup of the township was 82.50% (23,405) White, 2.21% (628) Black or African American, 0.13% (36) Native American, 9.95% (2,824) Asian, 0.01% (4) Pacific Islander, 2.97% (842) from other races, and 2.22% (631) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.82% (3,354) of the population.

There were 11,314 households out of which 29.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.8% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.3% were non-families. 27.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the township, the population was spread out with 20.7% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 28.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.7 years. For every 100 females there were 88.9 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and old there were 86.0 males.

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $76,167 (with a margin of error of +/- $3,896) and the median family income was $98,042 (+/- $4,394). Males had a median income of $64,736 (+/- $4,840) versus $52,410 (+/- $3,558) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $37,706 (+/- $1,918). About 3.1% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.9% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.

Parks and recreation

Nutley's parks include Booth Park, DeMuro Park, Father Glotzbach Park, Msgr Owens Park, Flora Louden Park, Kingsland Park, Memorial Park I, II, III, Nichols Park, and Rheinheimer Park. They offer fields for baseball, football, basketball, lacrosse, roller hockey, and soccer among other sports. The township hosts a weekly Market Walk and Talk beginning and ending at the township farmer's market where participants take a one-hour loop through the local scenic parks.

Transportation

Roads and highways

View north along Route 21 in Nutley

As of May 2010^[update], the township had a total of 67.94 miles (109.34 km) of roadways, of which 57.00 miles (91.73 km) were maintained by the municipality, 7.71 miles (12.41 km) by Essex County, 2.45 miles (3.94 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 0.78 miles (1.26 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.

The Garden State Parkway clips the southwest corner of the township, entering in the south from Bloomfield before reentering Bloomfield in the north. Route 21 follows the township's eastern border.

Public transportation

NJ Transit provides bus service between the township and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 192 route, to Newark on the 13, 27, 72 and 74 routes, with local service on the 709 route.

Until 1966, the Newark Branch of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad served the township with stations at Walnut Street, Highfield Street and at Franklin Avenue. The Newark Branch tracks are now used for freight only, operated by Norfolk Southern.

Operation Nutley Cares

After Hurricane Katrina devastated the central gulf coast region on August 29, 2005, Mayor Joanne Cocchiola and Commissioner Carmen A. Orechio reached out to local residents who wanted to help victims of the devastation, and formed the Operation Nutley Cares Committee. A decision was made to adopt Bay St. Louis, Mississippi as a sister city, Bay St. Louis, population 8,500, which sits just northeast of New Orleans, and had at least 60% of the community completely destroyed by Katrina and another 20% condemned. Monetary donations are still being accepted to help fund efforts to assist Bay St. Louis.

Economy

Nutley had been the U.S. headquarters of Hoffmann-La Roche and was the site of the creations of the medications Valium and Librium, later becoming one of the major R&D sites for Roche, hosting major research areas in oncology, virology and inflammation. Roche announced in June 2012 that operations at the site would end in 2013, leading to the elimination of 1,000 positions at the company, and that the facility would be shuttered by year end 2015. Located in Nutley since 1929, the company had reached a peak of 10,000 employees on the site, and the $9 million paid by the company in local property taxes accounted for 9% of the township's tax revenues.

Education

The Nutley Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of seven schools, had an enrollment of 4,041 students and 323.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Lincoln School with 447 students in grades K-6, Radcliffe School with 341 students in grades K-6, Spring Garden School with 416 students in grades PreK-6, Washington School with 523 students in grades K-6, Yantacaw School with 461 students in grades K-6, John H. Walker Middle School with 651 students in grades 7-8 and Nutley High School with 1,143 students in grades 9-12. John H. Walker Middle School, formerly Franklin Middle School, was renamed in 2009 to honor John H. Walker who was a long-time educator and principal in the township.

Notable people

• Alaa Abdelnaby (born 1968), former NBA basketball player.
• Dorothy Allison (1924–1999), psychic
• Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895–1977), socialite, amateur singer and aunt of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; featured along with her daughter, also named Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, in the 1975 documentary film Grey Gardens
• Julian Bigelow (1913–2003), pioneering computer engineer
• Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994), architect and feminist
• Julian "Bud" Blake (1918–2005), cartoonist (Tiger)
• Robert Blake (born 1933), actor (Baretta)
• Carol Blazejowski, (born 1956), general manager of the WNBA's New York Liberty
• Ray Blum (1919–2000), speed skater who represented the United States at the 1948 Winter Olympics
• Anthony Bowens, professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling
• Alan Branigan (born 1975, class of 1993), Ivorian-born professional soccer player
• Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896), novelist
• Barbara Buono (born 1953), New Jersey State Senator who has represented the 18th Legislative District since 2002
• Jane Burgio (1922–2005), member of the New Jersey General Assembly who served as secretary of state of New Jersey
• Tina Cervasio (born 1974), sportscaster, best known for her work as the Boston Red Sox sideline reporter on NESN telecasts
• P. C. Chang (1892–1957), Chinese academic, philosopher, playwright, human rights activist, and diplomat
• Clams Casino (born 1987 as Mike Volpe), hip hop producer
• Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. (born 1952), county executive of Essex County since 2003
• Doug Edert (born 2000), college basketball player for the Saint Peter's Peacocks of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
• Gary T. Erbe (born 1944), self-taught oil painter, best known for his trompe-l'œils, who maintains his studio in Nutley
• Ken Eulo (born 1939), Eugene O'Neill Award-winning writer and bestselling author whose novels have collectively sold over 13 million copies worldwide.
• Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954), British painter of figure subjects, mural decorations in fresco and occasional landscapes in watercolour and pastel
• Philip Sargant Florence (1890–1982), economist
• Frank Fowler (1852–1910), painter
• Ron Fraser (1933–2013), "Wizard of College Baseball", Baseball coach at University of Miami
• Garry Furnari (born 1954), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate and in New Jersey Superior Court and was Mayor of Nutley from 1996 to 2003
• Paul Goldberger (born 1950), Pulitzer Prize winner and architecture critic for The New Yorker
• Frances Goodrich (1890–1984), dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett
• Al Haig (1922–1982), jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop
• Ben Hawkins (1944–2017), professional American football wide receiver who played in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns, and for the Philadelphia Bell of the World Football League
• Christine E. Haycock (1924–2008), nurse and surgeon who served as a colonel in the United States Army Reserve and as a professor of surgery and Director of Emergency Services at the New Jersey Medical School
• Lloyd Huck (1922–2012), business executive, philanthropist and aviation enthusiast, who was chairman of pharmaceutical firms Merck & Co. and of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
• John V. Kelly (1926–2009), served in the New Jersey General Assembly and elected as Mayor of Nutley in 1988
• Frank Kirkleski (1904–1980), football player who played in the early years of the National Football League
• Frank Lautenberg (1924–2013), United States senator
• Michael Lenson (1903–1971), painter and muralist
• Anne Steele Marsh (1901–1995), painter and printmaker whose watercolors, oil paintings and wood engravings were widely exhibited
• Frederick Dana Marsh (1872–1961), illustrator
• Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter
• Frank McDonald (born c. 1933), football player who played as an end for the Miami Hurricanes football team
• Abram Molarsky (1880–1955), Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter best known for his landscapes
• Annie Oakley (1860–1926), sharpshooter
• Carl Orechio (1914–1991), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1972 to 1982
• Carmen A. Orechio (1926–2018), President of the New Jersey Senate who spent 40 years as a commissioner in Nutley
• Carlo Jackie Paris (1926–2004), jazz singer and guitarist
• Andrew Pecora (born 1957), hematologist and oncologist who has been involved in the research on the use of stem cells and oncolytic viruses to treat diseases, including cancer
• William Pène du Bois (1916–1993), author, artist
• Stephen Petronio (born 1956), choreographer
• Eileen Poiani, mathematician who was the first female mathematics instructor at Saint Peter's University
• Mark Radice, singer, musician, and producer
• Kevin J. Ryan (born 1969), former member of the New Jersey General Assembly
• Frederick Scalera (born 1958), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2003 to 2011 and serves on the Board of Education of the Nutley Public Schools
• Connie Siskowski, activist for young people who are caring for ill, disabled, or aging family members
• Raphael Sonenshein (born 1949), executive director of the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission and chairman of the political science department at California State University, Fullerton
• Frederic Dorr Steele (1873–1944), illustrator
• Martha Stewart (born 1941 as Martha Helen Kostyra), author, magazine publisher and television personality
• Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902), writer, best known for his short story "The Lady or the Tiger?"
• Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst, born Alix Sargant-Florence, translated Sigmund Freud's works into English
• Sharon Van Etten (born 1981), singer-songwriter.
• Geerat J. Vermeij (born 1946), professor of geology at the University of California, Davis
• Frank Vincent (1937–2017), actor who played prominent roles in the HBO series The Sopranos and in several films for director Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995)
• Nick Zano (born 1978), actor
• Eli Zaret (born 1950), sports broadcaster and journalist

Images for kids

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  Former railroad station at Franklin Avenue

See also

In Spanish: Nutley (Nueva Jersey) para niños