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Edison is a city in , . The city is named after Thomas Alva Edison who carried out most of his life's work, including the invention of the phonograph and the lightbulb, here.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Edison station and Jersey Mike’s Arena.

Railway station
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Edison is a commuter railroad station in the of Edison, , , . Located at the intersection of Plainfield Avenue and Central Avenue, the station is served by New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line.

Sports venue
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Jersey Mike's Arena, commonly known as the Rutgers Athletic Center, is an 8,000-seat multi-purpose arena in on Rutgers University's Livingston Campus.

Museum
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The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in . The museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art from the acclaimed Dodge… is situated 2 miles southwest of Edison.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Highland Park and New Brunswick.

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The Borough of is a charming residential community in , . It lies between the county seat of and Edison Township and has an area of less than two square miles and a population of approximately 14,000 people.

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is a city in and the county seat of , in the U.S. state of . A regional commercial hub for Central New Jersey, the city is both a college town and a commuter town for residents commuting to within the .

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is a suburban borough in in the U.S. state of . The borough is a commuter town of , located in the heart of the within the New York Metropolitan area.

Edison

Latitude
40.5182° or 40° 31′ 5″ north
Longitude
-74.4114° or 74° 24′ 41″ west
Population
108,000
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
87G7GH9Q+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10158037804
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7257830
Wiki­data ID
Q746801
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Edison” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إديسون”
  • Azerbaijani: “Edison”
  • Basque: “Edison”
  • Bulgarian: “Едисън”
  • Catalan: “Edison Township”
  • Catalan: “Edison”
  • Cebuano: “Edison”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێدیسن، نیوجێرزی”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێدیسن”
  • Chinese: “Edison”
  • Chinese: “愛迪生”
  • Chinese: “爱迪生”
  • Czech: “Edison”
  • Dagbani: “Edison”
  • Danish: “Edison”
  • Dutch: “Edison”
  • Esperanto: “Edison”
  • Estonian: “Edison”
  • Finnish: “Edison”
  • French: “Edison”
  • French: “Menlo Park(New Jersey)”
  • German: “Edison Township”
  • German: “Edison”
  • Greek: “Έντισον”
  • Haitian: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Edison”
  • Hebrew: “אדיסון”
  • Hindi: “एडिसन,न्यू जर्सी”
  • Hungarian: “Edison”
  • Indonesian: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Indonesian: “Edison”
  • Indonesian: “Township Edison”
  • Irish: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Irish: “Edison”
  • Italian: “Edison”
  • Japanese: “エジソン”
  • Japanese: “エディスン”
  • Japanese: “エディソン”
  • Kazakh: “Édïson Tawnşïp”
  • Kazakh: “Эдисон Тауншип”
  • Kazakh: “ەدىيسون تاۋنشىيپ”
  • Kirghiz: “Эдисон Тауншип”
  • Korean: “에디슨”
  • Mazanderani: “ادیسون (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “ادیسون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Edison”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Edison”
  • Norwegian: “Edison”
  • Persian: “ادیسون، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “ادیسون”
  • Polish: “Edison”
  • Polish: “Gmina Edison”
  • Portuguese: “Edison”
  • Russian: “Эдисон”
  • Serbian: “Едисон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Edison”
  • Slovak: “Edison”
  • Slovenian: “Edison”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ادیسون، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Edison (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Edison”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Edison”
  • Swahili: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Edison”
  • Swedish: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Swedish: “Edison”
  • Tamil: “எடிசன் நகரியம்”
  • Tamil: “எடிசன், நியூ ஜெர்சி”
  • Tamil: “எடிசன்”
  • Turkish: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Edison”
  • Ukrainian: “Едісон”
  • Urdu: “ایڈیسن، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “ایڈیسن”
  • Uzbek: “Edison”
  • Vietnamese: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Vietnamese: “Edison”
  • Volapük: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Volapük: “Edison”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Edison”
  • Welsh: “Edison, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Edison”

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