Communities
The adjacent township of Highland Park and the southwest part of Edison are home to several large Jewish communities and synagogues. With the cooperation of the Verizon telephone company, a continuous wire is strung on utility poles around Highland Park and part of Edison, forming an Eruv, a symbolic wall which allows Orthodox Jews to treat the entire area enclosed under the wire as their home for purposes of observation of the Sabbath.
Along Oak Tree Road from Edison into Iselin, some of the tremendous number of immigrants who have arrived from South Asia in the past quarter century or so have their businesses, including many fascinating grocery stores, specialty shops, and restaurants.
In the neighborhoods of Edison Hollow South and Blueberry Village, just blocks from Edison Station and its New Jersey Transit rail connections to New York City and Trenton, New Jersey, erstwhile New Yorkers have begun to make their homes.
Lincoln Park, on the south end of town, is one of the first of America’s post-war, planned suburbs, is now regarded as a historic neighborhood. This area dates from the late 1940s and has as its central point, Lincoln Elementary.
Population inside the city limits: 97,687
Elevation: 187 feet above sea level
Area inside city limits: 30.1 square miles
Average daily temperature in January: 29.8 degrees Fahrenheit
Average daily temperature in July: 73.9 degrees Fahrenheit