Cranford is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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.

Chapters are located in Montreal, Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto, New Jersey ( Woodbridge ), Quebec City, Atlanta, Calgary, Longueuil, Sandy Springs ( GA ), Cranford ( NJ ), Barrie, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Winnipeg, Canton ( GA ), Keowee ( SC ), and London ( ON )

Cranford High School is a four-year public high school located in Cranford, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cranford Township Public Schools.

The general contractor was the Percy Cranford Co., but the actual masonry work was done by the Samuel Miller Co. ( both companies were located in Washington, D. C .).

Route 28 continues east, intersecting Route 59 and the Garden State Parkway in Cranford before heading to Elizabeth, where it crosses Route 439 before ending at Route 27.

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

One episode was shot at Cranford's Orange Avenue Pool and another at Cranford High School and Brookside Place School.

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.

* Pictures from filming of Cranford at the Wiltshire Times

Roe was born at Low Leyton near Wanstead in Essex, the son of Sir Robert Rowe of Gloucestershire and Cranford, Middlesex, and his wife Elinor Jermy, daughter of Robert Jermy of Worstead, Norfolk.

The BBC TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford was partly filmed at West Wycombe Park, along with TV series Inspector Morse.

Growing at a nursery in Cranford, New Jersey.

The " major " event in the story is the return to Cranford of their long-lost brother, Peter, which in itself is only a minor portion of the work, leaving the rest of the novel at a low-key tone.

* Captain Brown – A poor captain, who comes to live at Cranford with his two daughters.

At his request the university decided to build a fine equatorial telescope for the instruction of his class and for purposes of research, a scheme which, as a result of Warren de la Rue's munificent gift of instruments from his private observatory at Cranford, expanded into the establishment of the new university observatory.

The argument was the result of Hose requesting time off to visit his mother who was ill. Alfred Cranford threatened to kill Hose and pointed a gun at him.

The SIRTRR connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad in Linden, New Jersey, the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Staten Island Junction in Cranford, New Jersey and the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Cranford Junction, also in Cranford.

From Navy experiments with the KGW-1 Loon, the Navy designation for the German V-1 flying bomb, Marine Captain Marian Cranford Dalby developed the AN-MPQ-14, a system that enabled radar-guided bomb release at night or in poor weather.

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

Using a jump shot patterned after what she saw in televised professional games, Blazejowski became one of the greatest scorers in the history of women's basketball, although she didn't begin serious competition until her senior year at Cranford High School in Cranford, New Jersey.

Dr. Clarence Cranford, his pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D. C. and President of the American Baptist Convention, to Moscow for a joint peace mission.

Lord Cranford, in his foreword to Captain Angus Buchanan's book on the war, writes, " At his strongest von Lettow probably mustered 25, 000 to 30, 000 rifles, all fighting troops ", with 70 machine guns and 40 guns.

Originally Colorado State Normal School occupied only one building, Cranford Hall and on 40 acres.

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

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 Garwood, the road heads through more commercial areas before intersecting Route 59 ( Lincoln Avenue ) on the border of Cranford.

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.

Cranford has long been considered a center of commerce.

The Cranford Business Park on the south side of town consists of a complex of office buildings housing a variety of major corporations and small businesses.

With neighboring communities seeing downtown development and a focus on either recruiting chain store or upscale small stores, Cranford has been debating the issue.

The recent focus of downtown Cranford has been to recruit more restaurants in to the downtown and allow for a nightlife to flourish.

Amongst the existing nightlife, Cranford holds a number of local restaurant / bars: The Office, The Riverside Inn, Cranford Hotel, The Kilkenny House, Ye Olde Rathskellar, among others.

On the south side of the community, the Cranford Crossings redevelopment project features retail space, apartments, and a new parking deck.

The DMC has used its budget for development projects, to recruit new businesses and to market shopping in Cranford.