Bloomfield

Bloomfield Township in Essex County, covering 5.3 square miles, had a population of 47,315, 18,387 households and 11,768 families as of the 2010 U. S. Census.  That's a population density of 8,920 people per square mile.  

The Bloomfield Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.  Bloomfield Tech High School is a regional magnet public high school that offers occupational and academic instruction for students in Essex County, as part of the Essex County Vocational Technical Schools   Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish School, which serves grades K-8, is operated under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Bloomfield College, a liberal arts college founded in 1868, is located in downtown Bloomfield near the town green. The college has approximately 2,000 students and is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.

The major New Jersey highway artery that serves Bloomfield is the Garden State Parkway. Its Essex toll plaza is located in the city, as well as two service areas.  Bloomfield is served by the New Jersey Transit Montclair-Boonton Line to Hoboken Terminal or on Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan via the Secaucus Junction.

Bloomfield is 7.5 miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and 28.8 miles from LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens.

Brookdale Park covers over 121 acres in Bloomfield and Montclair, making it the county's third-largest park. Watsessing Park, which is the county's fourth largest park, covers 69.67 acres split between Bloomfield and East Orange, and features sections of the Second River and Toney's Brook flowing through the park.  Both parks are administered by the Essex County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs.

 

 

Location
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
United States
40° 48' 24.3612" N, 74° 11' 13.0164" W
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