Rahway
Rahway is a city in southern Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A bedroom community of New York City, it is centrally located in the Rahway Valley region, in the New York metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 27,800 residents
- Description: city in Union County, New Jersey, United States of America
- Also known as: “Bridgetown”, “Leesville”, “Nawakwa”, “Rahwack”, “Rahway, New Jersey”, “Rahway, NJ”, “Raway”, “Rjawau. Spanktown”, and “Spanktown”
- Postal code: 07065
- Neighbors: Clark, Linden, and Woodbridge
Places of Interest
Highlights include Union County Performing Arts Center and Rahway station.
Union County Performing Arts Center
Theater building
Photo: PeterMac13, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Union County Performing Arts Center, formerly the "movie palace" known as the Rahway Theatre, is a non-profit performance venue in Rahway, New Jersey, a small city west of Staten Island that was recently named "#2 Best Small Town Arts Scene" in the country by USA Today.
Rahway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rahway station is an NJ Transit train station in Rahway, New Jersey. It is served by the Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line. Rahway is just northeast of the Perth Amboy Junction, where the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines split at Union Tower.
East Jersey State Prison
Prison
Photo: Jackie Finn-Irwin, CC BY 2.0.
East Jersey State Prison is a maximum security prison operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections in Avenel, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. It was established in 1896 as Rahway State Prison, and was the first reformatory in New Jersey, officially opening in 1901.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Linden and Clark.
Linden
Photo: General Magnaplate, CC BY 3.0.
Linden is a city of 42,000 people in New Jersey. Linden is a regional hub of Polish immigration and features a significant number of establishments featuring the food and culture of Poland.
Clark
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Clark is a city in Union County, New Jersey. It is a suburban town of around 16,000 that is 13 miles from Newark. The town was founded in 1864 when the residents of the 5th ward of Rahway city decided to break away to establish the city.
Colonia
Suburb
Colonia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP's population was 18,609.
Rahway
- Categories: city in New Jersey and locality
- Location: City of Rahway, Union County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.6082° or 40° 36′ 29″ northLongitude
-74.2776° or 74° 16′ 40″ westPopulation
27,800Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
US RAHOpen location code
87G7JP5C+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 158836766OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rahway” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راهواي”
- Basque: “Rahway”
- Catalan: “Rahway”
- Cebuano: “Rahway”
- Chechen: “Равей”
- Chinese: “Rahway”
- Chinese: “拉威”
- Chinese: “拉韋”
- Chinese: “罗威市”
- Chinese: “罗韦”
- Chinese: “羅威市”
- Chinese: “羅韋”
- Czech: “Rahway”
- Danish: “Rahway”
- Dutch: “Rahway”
- French: “Rahway”
- German: “Rahway”
- Gilaki: “راوی (نيۊجرسي)”
- Gilaki: “راوی”
- Haitian: “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Haitian: “Rahway”
- Hebrew: “ראהווי”
- Irish: “Rahway”
- Italian: “Rahway”
- Japanese: “ニュージャージー州”
- Japanese: “ラーウェイ”
- Japanese: “ローウェイ”
- Kazakh: “Raxvzý”
- Kazakh: “Рахвзй”
- Kazakh: “راحۆزي”
- Kirghiz: “Рахвзй”
- Korean: “라웨이”
- Korean: “로웨이”
- Ladin: “Rahway”
- Lombard: “Rahway”
- Mazanderani: “راوی (نیوجرسی)”
- Mazanderani: “راوی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rahway”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rahway”
- Norwegian: “Rahway”
- Persian: “راوی، نیوجرسی”
- Persian: “راوی”
- Polish: “Rahway”
- Portuguese: “Rahway”
- Russian: “Ровей”
- Scots: “Rahway”
- Serbian: “Ровеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rahway”
- Slovenian: “Rahway”
- South Azerbaijani: “راهوای، نیوجرسی”
- Spanish: “Rahway (Nueva Jersey)”
- Spanish: “Rahway”
- Swahili: “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Swahili: “Rahway”
- Swedish: “Rahway”
- Tatar: “Равей”
- Turkish: “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Rahway”
- Ukrainian: “Равей”
- Uzbek: “Rahway”
- Volapük: “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Volapük: “Rahway”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rahway”
- Welsh: “Rahway, New Jersey”
- Welsh: “Rahway”
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