Cranford is located at ( 40. 656391 ,- 74. 30483 ).

Downtown Cranford is the main retail business district for the township.

The Riverfront redevelopment project is proposed on South Avenue to bring more business and housing into downtown Cranford.

In the 1980s, Cranford founded the first special improvement district in New Jersey, which allows for the downtown district to have a special tax on building and business owners for downtown development and marketing which is managed by the Cranford Downtown Management Corporation.

Cranford is governed under the Township form of government with a five-member Township Committee.

Union County Freeholder Bette Jane Kowalski is a Cranford resident and the first woman from Cranford to be elected to the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Cranford Township is in the 7th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 21st state legislative district.

Freeholder Bette Jane Kowalski is a Cranford resident.

The Cranford Township Public Schools are a comprehensive and successful public school system, which is governed by a nine-person elected Board of Education.

Saint Michael's School, located in downtown Cranford, is a major Roman Catholic parochial school which offers Nursery through Grade 8 and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

The main campus of Union County College, New Jersey's oldest community college dating back to 1933, is located in Cranford.

The Cranford Chronicle ( formerly the Cranford Citizen & Chronicle ) is a longtime newspaper serving the Township.

The Cranford Patch is a daily online news source dedicated strictly to local Cranford news.

Cranford also has its own channel, TV-35, which is available to cable and Verizon FiOS television subscribers.

Cranford. com is The Official Website of the Township of Cranford, NJ and has been in operation since the summer of 1996.

The Cranford station is to the lower right and offers commutation service to Manhattan and elsewhere.

Exit 136 is known as the " four corners ", where Clark, Winfield, Cranford and Linden meet.

Cranford was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 14, 1871, from portions of the Townships of Clark, Linden, Springfield, Union and Westfield.

Portions of the township were taken to form Cranford Township ( March 14, 1871 ) and Winfield Township ( August 6, 1941 ).

Portions of the township have been taken to form Rahway Township ( February 27, 1804 ), Plainfield Township ( April 5, 1847 ), Cranford Township ( March 14, 1871 ), Fanwood Township ( March 6, 1878, now known as Scotch Plains ), Mountainside ( September 25, 1895 ) and Hillside ( April 3, 1913 ).

Union County College, a community college headquartered in nearby Cranford, maintains a campus in downtown Plainfield.

Freeholder Kowalski was an unsuccessful candidate for Cranford Township Committee in 1999 and served as Union County Freeholder Chairwoman in 2007.

Berkeley Heights, New Providence, Westfield, Summit, Cranford, Kenilworth, Clark, Linden, Union, Springfield and Scotch Plains have a very high number of Italian American residents, as well as a large number of Irish Americans and residents of Northern European descent in general.

As of the January 2010 reorganization, Union County's Freeholders are Freeholder Chairperson Daniel P. Sullivan ( Elizabeth ), Freeholder Vice Chairperson Deborah P. Scanlon ( Union ), Angel G. Estrada ( Elizabeth ), Mohamed S. Jalloh ( Roselle ), Bette Jane Kowalski ( Cranford ), Alexander Mirabella ( Fanwood ), Rick Proctor ( Rahway ), Rayland Van Blake ( Plainfield ) and Nancy Ward ( Westfield ).

Union County College was founded in 1933 and has campuses throughout the county, in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield and Scotch Plains.

Kenilworth was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 13, 1907, from portions of Cranford and Union Township, based on the results of a referendum held on June 18, 1907.

The borough is bordered to the north and east by Union Township, to the southeast by Roselle Park, to the southwest by Cranford and to the northwest by Springfield Township.

In the late 1890s, the New Orange Industrial Association purchased land in Cranford and Union that was subdivided into building lots, and brought in several large industries and lured Upsala College from Brooklyn with a gift of free land for its campus.

New Jersey Transit provides bus service to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan in New York City and to New Jersey points, including the city of Elizabeth and nearby Union County College in Cranford.

* Rahway River Parkway through Rahway, Clark, Cranford and Kenilworth in Union County

* William Miller Sperry Observatory or Sperry Observatory, an astronomical observatory owned by Union County College and operated by Amateur Astronomers, Incorporated on Union County College on their Cranford, New Jersey campus

The two branches meet at Hobart Gap near Interstate 78, continuing south through the Union County communities of Springfield, Union, Cranford and Clark.

In September of 2012, Dr. Fryar will begin his tenure as the Professor of Philosopy and Sports Management at Union County College in Cranford, NJ.

Cranford High School now competes in the Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Cranford High School's baseball won the state championship in 1971, 1997 and 2010 the Union County Championship in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007 and 2010.

Westbound Route 28 in Cranford, New Jersey | Cranford. Upon crossing County Route 606 ( Hetfield Avenue ), Route 28 turns slightly mor east and enters Scotch Plains, where it passes homes to the south and businesses to the north.

In Cranford, Route 28 becomes a that passes homes before entering the commercial downtown area, where it intersects County Route 615 ( Springfield Avenue / Centennial Avenue ).

The Garden State Parkway passes through Cranford, with access at Exit 136 for County Route 607 and Exit 137 for Route 28.

There are fair-sized Jewish-American communities in Springfield, Scotch Plains, Elizabeth, Hillside, Cranford, Westfield and Summit, although not at the level of Essex County.

* Hanwell: Introduction, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington ( 1962 ), pp. 220 – 24.

Although set in the fictitious town of Stuckeyville, Ohio, the majority of the series was actually shot in various towns in northern New Jersey including Montclair, Hillsdale, Haworth, Westfield, Cranford, Nutley, Ridgewood, Harrington Park, Allendale and Northvale and Rockland County, New York ( Tappan, Nyack ).

Cranford was assistant chief of neurology at the Hennepin County Medical Center.