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Rahway

city in Union County, New Jersey, United States of America

Key facts

Country: United States
State: New Jersey
County: Union
Incorporated: April 19, 1858
Type: Faulkner Act (mayor–council)
Body: City Council
Mayor: Raymond A. Giacobbe Jr. ( D , term ends December 31, 2026)
Business administrator: Matthew Pukavich
Municipal clerk: Heather Capone
Total: 4.04 sq mi (10.47 km )
Land: 3.90 sq mi (10.09 km )
Water: 0.15 sq mi (0.38 km ) 3.59%
Rank: 295th of 565 in state, 12th of 21 in county
Elevation: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Estimate 2023: 29,813
Density: 7,586.2/sq mi (2,929.0/km )
Time zone: UTC−05:00 ( Eastern Standard Time (EST) )
Summer dst: UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )

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Location map of Rahway from 1922. The present-day ride to New York by train is typically 38 minutes. An engraving from 1857 of Main Street in Rahway from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. The Rahway rail station as it was depicted by an artist in 1857. Flatt's carriage warehouse is at left and Degraw's Hotel is center. Elm Avenue, looking west, c. early 1900s Rahway (/ˈrɔːweɪ/) 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. The city is 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Manhattan and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Staten Island.

Built on the navigable Rahway River, it was an industrial and artisanal craft city for much of its history. The city has increasingly reinvented itself in recent years as a diverse regional hub for the arts and biological sciences, with a new global headquarters for Merck & Co.