There are numerous historical and contemporary neighborhoods in Sayreville, a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Sayreville has a total area of 18.704 square miles (48.442 km2), of which 15.842 square miles (41.030 km2) was land and 2.862 square miles (7.412 km2) was water (15.30%).[7] It is located on a peninsula shared with South Amboy, created by the Raritan River at the north, its tributary South River to the west, and the Raritan Bay to the east.[8] The original village of Sayreville has been known as Sayre's Village, Upper Sayreville, and Sayreville Proper.

Sayre and Fisher Reading Room

Sayreville was originally settled by Europeans in the colonial era and was part the South Amboy Township formed in 1684. It seceded and incorporated as a township on April 6, 1876. The newly formed Township of Sayreville was created out of approximately 14 square miles of south of today's South Amboy consolidating the settlements at Morgan, Melrose, Ernston, and Sayre's Village under one municipal government. The area around the village was then known as Wood's Landing was renamed Sayreville after Sayre and Fisher Brick Company. Fewer than 2,000 people resided in the new township. Several areas take their name from stations along the Raritan River Railroad.

Sayreville developed into an industrial town in the late 19th century when most of the land was owned numerous clay, sand, and brick companies such the Such Clay Company, the Furman Brick Company, the Crossman Sand & Clay Company, Whitehead Brothers, and the Sayre & Fisher Brick Company, once the largest brickworks in the world. With the coming of other industries at the turn of the century such as DuPont, Hercules, and National Lead, Sayreville promoted itself as the “Home of Nationally Known Industries.” On April 2, 1919, the township was reincorporated as the Borough of Sayreville and ratified by a referendum held on April 29, 1919.[9]

According to Joseph T. Karcher, an attorney, who wrote the post-war promotional The case for Sayreville, Middlesex County, New Jersey in 1947, the borough had seven residential districts, which were separated by the large industrial complexes throughout the borough.[10] After World War II, with the sale of former clay land holdings to housing developers. President Park, a suburban subdivision, was built just after the war.[11] Sayreville's population grew from 8,000 in 1945 to over 32,000 by 1970.

Much of Sayreville's housing was built in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.[12] In the 1950s many clay companies sold their land holdings and gave way new housing “developments”.[13] The largest, Laurel Park, became home to over 500 families. Other projects included Pershing Park, Deerfield Estates, Hope Homes, Parkway Homes, and Haven Village. In the 1960s more housing developments such as Woodside, Sayre Woods, and Oak Tree East and West were built.[14] In 1970s and 80s Sayreville transitioned from an industrial community to a suburb as its once vibrant industrial landscape gave way to housing developments, and as more residents commute to jobs outside of town it became more of bedroom community. By the 2000s, Sayreville's population surpassed 40,000 as brownfield land saw more housing construction.

List of sections and neighborhoods

NeighborhoodImageZip Code[15]CoordinatesNotesReferences
Crossmans 08872, 08879 40°29′06″N 74°19′17″W / 40.485°N 74.321389°W / 40.485; -74.321389 From Crossman's Clay, the section Crssmans was near Parlin and ran to the banks of the Raritan River[16]
Ernston 40°27′22″N 74°18′38″W / 40.456111°N 74.310556°W / 40.456111; -74.310556 near Madison Park at Old Bridge border [2][5][4][3][1][17][18]
Gillespie 08872, 08879 40°27′07″N 74°21′22″W / 40.451944°N 74.356111°W / 40.451944; -74.356111 T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant
La Mer In the Parlin section [19]
Laurel Park 40°27′25″N 74°18′49″W / 40.456944°N 74.313611°W / 40.456944; -74.313611 In the Ernston section near Madison Park section at Old Bridge Township border
Lower Sayreville Once a separate enclave on the Sayreville Branch
MacArthur Manor 40°27′30″N 74°22′09″W / 40.45833°N 74.36917°W / 40.45833; -74.36917 At the southern end of Sayreville Proper. Developed in the 1970s, many homes destroyed in Hurricane Sandy were removed from the flood zone.[20][21][22] [23][2][5][4][3]
Melrose 08879 40°29′27″N 74°17′49″W / 40.490833°N 74.296944°W / 40.490833; -74.296944 At the foot of Victory Bridge and Edison Bridge abutting South Amboy on either side of Route 35. [16][24]
Morgan 08879 40°28′00″N 74°16′06″W / 40.46667°N 74.26833°W / 40.46667; -74.26833 East of Route 35 on Raritan Bay [2][5][4][3][25]
Morgan Heights 08879 East of Route 35 on Cheesequake Creek and Raritan Bay near Morgan Draw to Laurence Harbor
Old Bridge 40°25′07″N 74°21′45″W / 40.418717°N 74.3625627°W / 40.418717; -74.3625627 Historical residential enclave along a meander of South River across from town of South River at west of Bordentown Avenue (CR 615), the border with Old Bridge Township. [26][27]
Parlin 08859 40°27′43″N 74°20′18″W / 40.461944°N 74.338333°W / 40.461944; -74.338333 also Old Bridge Township [28]
Phoenix 40°28′40″N 74°18′47″W / 40.47778°N 74.31306°W / 40.47778; -74.31306 At Main Street and Main Street Extension. Once part of the RRR, now a point on Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CRCX) [29][30]
Presidents Park 40°28′18″N 74°18′30″W / 40.471586°N 74.3083817°W / 40.471586; -74.3083817} Early suburban development along US Route 9 between Melrose and Parlin [13][11][31]
Riverton Spit of land where Edison Bridge and Driscoll Bridge cross the Raritan. Once the site of National Lead, maker of Dutch Boy Paint. Proposed large-scale mixed use project. .[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
Runyon 40°26′03″N 74°19′56″W / 40.434167°N 74.332222°W / 40.434167; -74.332222
Sayre-Woods/Oak Tree East 40°27′40″N 74°17′29″W / 40.461111°N 74.291389°W / 40.461111; -74.291389 Along US Route 9 and Garden State Parkway
Sayreville 40°28′16″N 74°21′19″W / 40.471111°N 74.355278°W / 40.471111; -74.355278 aka Sayre's Village, Sayreville Proper or Upper Sayreville
Sayreville Junction 40°27′55″N 74°19′50″W / 40.46528°N 74.33056°W / 40.46528; -74.33056 Originally from Raritan River Railroad [40]
Sayreville Station 40°28′22″N 74°21′14″W / 40.47278°N 74.35389°W / 40.47278; -74.35389 Originally terminus of Raritan River Railroad's Sayreville Branch [41]
Tangletown part of Sayreville Proper/Upper Sayreville [13][42]
Townelake 40°28′43″N 74°21′17″W / 40.478611°N 74.354722°W / 40.478611; -74.354722 around Towne Lake in near Sayreville Proper
Winding Woods 40°25′42″N 74°21′00″W / 40.4282742°N 74.3500168°W / 40.4282742; -74.3500168 [11][43]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Middlesex" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
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  12. ↑ Cheslow, Jerry (November 7, 2004). "As Manufacturing Fades, Commuters Fill the Gap". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2015. The oldest neighborhood is Tangletown, off Main Street, where narrow two- and three-bedroom colonials built for factory workers a century ago are tightly packed along narrow, crooked lanes. Nearly half of the borough's approximately 15,500 housing units were built from 1940 to 1969.
  13. 1 2 3 Cappuzzo, Jill P. (January 2, 2011). "Long on Space, Water and Industry". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  14. ↑ "Sayreville Historical Society". Retrieved 2 June 2015. 1947: The postwar housing boom begins as borough attorney Joseph Karcher actively promotes the benefits of Sayreville, proclaiming that "the people prosper where industry prospers." With breakneck speed, the vast tracts of industrial land that separate Sayreville's seven neighborhoods are sold to housing developers. As America quickly became a suburban nation, for the first time, Sayreville's land itself became more valuable than the clay within...1950s: A great number of new housing "developments" are built throughout the sprawling borough as clay companies sell their land holdings, which had depreciated in value with the growing housing boom. Laurel Park, the largest of these developments, becomes home to over 500 families. Other new housing projects include Pershing Park, President Park, Deerfield Estates, Hope Homes, Parkway Homes, and Haven Village....1960s: More housing developments, such as Woodside, Sayre Woods, and Oak Tree East and West, raise Sayreville's population to 32,508 by the end of the decade.
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  16. 1 2 "Crossmans & Melrose Sayreville, NJ 08872, Neighborhood Profile - NeighborhoodScout". www.neighborhoodscout.com.
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  21. ↑ "FACT SHEET - South River, Raritan Basin, NJ".
  22. ↑ http://www.sayreville.com/documents/PRESENTATION%20FOR%20INTERNET.pdf. Archived 2016-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ↑ "MacArthur Manor". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  24. ↑ Gabrielan, Randall (2012). Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster. The History Press. ISBN 9781609495176. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24.
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  26. ↑ "There's No Easy Way Out for Sandy Survivors Looking to Move On with Their Lives". NJ Spotlight. August 7, 2013.
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  34. ↑ Morris, Sebastian (January 4, 2020). "City Officials Approve $2.5 Billion Waterfront Development in Sayreville, New Jersey".
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  37. ↑ Hurdle, Jon (8 March 2016). "A Project Reclaims an Abandoned Stretch of New Jersey Coast". The New York Times.
  38. ↑ "$2.5B, 418-acre Sayreville development to be announced". 13 November 2017.
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