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New Providence
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town in New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Union
- Incorporated
- March 14, 1899
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Allen B. Morgan ( R , term ends December 31, 2026)
- Administrator
- Bernadette C. Cuccaro
- Municipal clerk
- Denise Brinkofski
- Total
- 3.71 sq mi (9.61 km )
- Land
- 3.69 sq mi (9.55 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km ) 0.57%
- Rank
- 307th of 565 in state, 14th of 21 in county
- Elevation
- 217 ft (66 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 13,488
- Density
- 3,701.2/sq mi (1,429.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- New Providence
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Union County
- Population
- 13650
- Area
- 9.49202
- Elevation
- 66
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Summit
- Official website
- www.newprov.org
- Image
- New Providence NJ public park with pergola and benches.jpg
- Households
- 4844
- Dialing code
- 908
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- Commons category
- New Providence, New Jersey
- postal code
- 07974
- water as percent of area
- 0.6705
- per capita income
- 75462
- date of incorporation
- 1899-03-14
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Encyclopedic overview
New Providence is a borough on the northwestern edge of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located on the Passaic River, which forms the county boundary with Morris County bordering Chatham Township. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 13,650, an increase of 1,479 (+12.2%) from the 2010 census count of 12,171, which in turn reflected increase of 264 (+2.2%) from the 11,907 counted in the 2000 census.
The borough is home to much of the Murray Hill neighborhood with the remainder lying in neighboring Berkeley Heights. Service on the NJ Transit is available at the New Providence and Murray Hill stations. More than 9% of New Providence's land is publicly-owned and protected parkland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Providence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.