Upper Montclair, New Jersey

Upper Montclair is an unincorporated area and neighborhood within Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP code 07043. It is often misperceived, even by Montclair residents, to be a separate town from Montclair, perhaps aided by this postal designation.

As of the United States 2000 Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 07043 was 11,915. [ [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=86000US07043&_geoContext=01000US%7C86000US07043&_street=&_county=&_cityTown=&_state=&_zip=07043&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=860&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y Census 2000 Fact Sheet for Zip Code Tabulation Area 07043] , United States Census Bureau. Accessed May 17, 2007.]

Geography

Upper Montclair is northern Montclair, which is usually reckoned as everything north of Watchung Avenue. Upper Montclair takes up approximately one third of Montclair, New Jersey

Education

is in Upper Montclair.

Upper Montclair also is home to private schools. They include Lacordaire Academy,Lacordaire Academy Elementary Division,and [http://stcassianschool.org/ St. Cassian's School]

Parks

Upper Montclair is home to many parks and nature reserves. Within Upper Montclair there are Anderson Park, Yantacaw Brook Park, the Bonsal Nature Reserve, Mountainside Park, the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, and parts of Mills Reservation and Brookdale Park. In addition, Upper Montclair has the Mountainside Public Pool, which is one of the three public pools in Montclair, and is also the largest.

Upper Montclair also has Immaculate Conception Cemetery and Mount Hebron Cemetery.

Transportation

Upper Montclair is very well connected to the rest of New Jersey and New York City on account of its transportation infrastructure. The only types of public transportation in Upper Montclair are buses and trains, both provided by New Jersey Transit, although commuter bus service to Manhattan is provided by DeCamp Bus Lines.

Rail

. From 1889 to 1928, Valley Road, a major road, had an electric trolley line.

Bus

The area is also on NJ Transit's bus route 28, which goes from Montclair State University or Willowbrook Mall along Valley Road through Montclair, Glen Ridge and Bloomfield, to Downtown Newark. This bus route goes along Valley road for the great majority of its path in Upper Montclair, in some places on the route of Decamp's Number 66. Also, two DeCamp Bus Lines routes take commuters to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York. Some Number 33 buses go along Grove Street, on the Eastern side of the neighborhood, while number 66 goes on Valley Road, in the West, then the central Park Street.

Road

Upper Montclair has road connections to the rest of Montclair, Cedar Grove, Little Falls, Clifton, and Bloomfield. Just north of the neighborhood's border is U.S. Route 46

Gallery

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Presby Memorial Iris Gardens
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Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of Upper Montclair include:
*Buzz Aldrin (1930-), Astronaut, second man to walk on the moon
*Howard Krongard (1940-), head of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State. [ [http://oig.state.gov/about/c12822.htm Howard J. Krongard, Inspector General] , United States Department of State. Accessed September 20, 2007.]
*Dr. Leo Henryk Sternbach, chemist, invented precursor to Valium. [Pearce, Jeremy. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/health/01sternbach.html "Leo Sternbach, 97, Valium Creator, Dies"] , "The New York Times", October 1, 2005. Accessed October 17, 2007. "The couple lived in Upper Montclair, N.J., until last year, when they moved to Chapel Hill."] [ [http://www.rocheusa.com/newsroom/current/2005/pr2005092901.html Inventor of Valium and National Inventors Hall of Fame] , Roche, September 30, 2005. Accessed October 17, 2007. "A devoted family man, Sternbach lived with his wife, Herta, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, from 1943 to 2003..."]

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