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Rahway
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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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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Rahway
- Population
- 29556
- Area
- 10.433594
- Elevation
- 7
- Official website
- www.cityofrahway.com
- Image
- MerchantsAndDrovers.jpg
- Households
- 11621
- Dialing code
- 732
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- postal code
- 07065
- Commons category
- Rahway, New Jersey
- water as percent of area
- 3.2569
- per capita income
- 40303
- date of incorporation
- 1858-04-19
- P12749
- Josef Ettlinger
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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.