Millburn New Jersey Real Estate

Welcome to this spotlight on Short Hills, New Jersey where you will find an introduction to Short Hills and gain insight into buying and selling a home in this lovely town. As a realtor in Short Hills, you will find that I have a comprehensive knowledge about the local neighborhoods, schools, market conditions, ordinances, etc. In addition, I grew up in Millburn/Short Hills and am now raising my own family here as well. You've come to the right place with Perri K. Feldman as your Neighborhood Expert in Short Hills, New Jersey.

The advent of NJ Transit's Midtown Direct Train line has brought tremendous growth in home values in Short Hills. Depending on your lifestyle, you will find single-family homes, garden apartments and condominiums, and detached homes. Currently there are two bedroom townhouses for sale from $375,000 up to a seven bedroom home priced at $7,650,000. The average selling price for a home in Short Hills/Millburn this past year was $1,350,000.

I look forward to helping you find your dream home in Short Hills and welcoming you to this fine community. If you want to sell your home in Short Hills, my twenty-five plus years of experience in marketing and sales will help expose your home to the maximum number of qualified buyers. I will provide you with an individualized marketing plan designed to sell your Short Hills home in a timely manner for top dollar utilizing the latest technologies online and in traditional media.

Millburn Township, with a population of nearly 20,000, is located in the southwest corner of Essex County and covers about ten square miles. It is 20 miles west of New York City thus commuters are less than 45 minutes away from Midtown and Wall Street. The southern border, adjacent to Summit and Springfield , is partially defined by Morris Turnpike, also called New Jersey Route 124. Maplewood lies to the east of Millburn ; West Orange and Livingston lie to the north; and Florham Park and Chatham to the west.

About half of Essex County 's 2,000-acre South Mountain Reservation lies within the Township. Other open spaces include three municipal parks, three golf courses, two water reserves, a reservoir and small parcels of undeveloped land. The Township is primarily a residential suburb, and many of its residents commute to work in New York City . Most live in single family houses. The Township has approximately 6,100 residential properties, 20 apartment buildings, more than 200 commercial buildings, and 32 industrial buildings.

The township was named "Millburn" in 1857, as a tribute to a local mill built on a stream, with "burn" being the Scottish name for "stream." Shortly after 1870, Stewart Hartshorn, inventor of the roller window shade, decided to make his home here and to enter the real estate business to establish an "ideal community." He purchased and resold much of the "short hills" area and adopted the Indians' name for his community. Today, Short Hills remains an area of Millburn Township.

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Short Hills is a part of Millburn Township. On the east and south is Millburn, with its suburban residential sections as well as Millburn Center. To the north and west lies Short Hills with its own post office and railroad station, but an integral part of the Township and one of the finest residential areas in the nation.

Millburn Township is a full-service community where most residents live in single family homes. Millburn is comprised of the historic Wyoming district, and South Mountain and Millburn Center areas. Short Hills contains the sections of Knollwood, Glenwood, Brookhaven, Old Short Hills Estates, Country Club, White Oak Ridge, Deerfield-Crossroads and Mountaintop.

Wyoming is an older section on the southeast of town. It includes many houses dating from the end of the 19th century. The streets, laid out in a grid pattern, are steep, narrow and high-crowned. The lots are zoned for one-third of an acre. The Victorian, Tudor, Colonial and historic farm houses are surrounded by mature trees and shrubs.

South Mountain is a flat area bounded by the east and west branches of the Rahway River and lies just behind the beautiful Taylor Park in the center of town. Seventy-five year old Tudor homes and English Colonials can be found among its winding tree-lined streets.

Millburn Center contains most of Millburn Township ’s commercial properties, with the exception of those located at The Mall at Short Hills. It also contains a residential section of older houses, some two-family dwellings, garden apartments, and several apartment houses.

Knollwood is an area that was built in the late 1920’s and is characterized by its narrow and winding streets that slope steeply down the “knoll.”

Glenwood was also built in the late 1920’s, but this area of town is flat and has mainly center hall Colonials. Its close proximity to the Short Hills train station makes it convenient for commuters.

Brookhaven is just beyond Glenwood with Colonial and Dutch Colonial houses developed in the 1940’s.

Old Short Hills is the largest residential area in Millburn Township . It contains many large homes, including Queen Anne Victorian mansions, on substantial properties. A number of older houses, including those built by Stewart Hartshorn, founder of Short Hills, are located in this section. The tree-lined streets wind their way through this Federal Historic Landmark area. There are smaller sub-sections that include Nottingham , Beechcroft as well as others.

The Country Club section was developed in the 1950’s. Its variety of homes on approximately one-third of an acre lots are found on wide gently sloping streets with well manicured lawns and hedges.

The newer areas of Short Hills (post 1940’s) include The White Oak Ridge and Poet’s sections; Deerfield-Crossroads and Mountaintop. These mostly half acre lots are filled with homes with more modern characteristics of the 20 th Century.

The Township of Millburn provides all the services usually found in any well-managed suburban municipality of its size. These include full-time paid police and fire departments, a Township-operated refuse collection service, a sanitary sewer system, a separate storm sewer system, and a health department. The recreation department has an active program including a swimming pool and a par 3 golf course. Additional public works department services include shade trees, the maintenance and repair of streets and public buildings, building inspection and zoning enforcement. The Township also maintains an out-standing free public library service.

The Mall at Short Hills, located in the northwest corner of the Township, is an unusually beautiful regional shopping center housing more than 170 fine shops, restaurants and department stores including branches of Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue , Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Macy's. More than 1000 businesses and professionals are located in the Township.

The community is also home to a $50 million Five Diamond Hotel and Office complex opposite the Mall. The 240,000 square foot office complex with a 300-room Hilton Hotel with conference and banquet facilities opened in 1988.

Millburn has two weekly newspapers: The Independent Press, distributed free, and The Item.

Transportation
Buses and trains provide easy access to New York City --both mid-town and lower Manhattan --as well as to businesses in Hoboken , Newark and Jersey City . Commuter parking lots are available for residents. Trains stop in both Millburn and Short Hills, and buses pick up commuters at various points in town. In addition, Millburn-Short Hills is a quick 15 to 20 minutes from Newark Airport and is close to major highways.

Education
The school district is made up of five elementary schools, a middle school with grades six through eight and a four-year high school. Millburn parents, teachers and school administrators work together to ensure that the community provides its students with an excellent academic program. The Millburn school district stresses individualized instruction and a full spectrum of academic and extracurricular activities.

Millburn High School offers a full program of studies featuring eighteen Advanced Placement courses and a wide range of academic electives. Approximately 80 percent of parents are college graduates with one or more degrees and, for the past ten years, over 95 percent of each high school graduation class have attended post secondary institutions.

Cultural Activities
Founded in 1934, Paper Mill Playhouse, located on Brookside Drive in Millburn , is a professional Equity theatre seating 1,200 and attracts approximately 425,000 theatre-goers each season. Paper Mill offers a full range of cultural events including musicals, plays, and children’s programs along with New Jersey Ballet’s Nutcracker during the holiday season. Paper Mill is proud to be one of the few theatres in the country to be fully accessible to people with disabilities, serving over 4,000 people annually. Group, Senior, and student discounts are available.

The Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary , located on Forest Drive in Short Hills, was created from undeveloped woodlands by its former owners, the Hartshorns. It is now owned and maintained by the Township, but operated by the Arboretum Association. Within its 16 acres are hundreds of varieties of birds, wild flowers and trees. The Arboretum sponsors classes, lectures, workshops and field trips in nature study and crafts.

The Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society was formed in 1975 in conjunction with the celebration of the United States Bicentennial to stimulate interest in the history, architecture and genealogy of the Township.

Short Hills At A Glance

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Short Hills At A Glance

Homes in Short Hills

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