Murray Hill is an
unincorporated community located within portions of both
Berkeley Heights and
New Providence, located in
Union County in northern
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delawa ...
, United States.
It is the longtime central location of
Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mul ...
(part of
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...
since 2016), having moved there in 1941 from New York City when the division was still part of
Western Electric. The first working
transistor was demonstrated in Bell Labs' Murray Hill facility in 1947.
The neighborhood shares its
ZIP code 07974 with the neighboring borough of New Providence.
Murray Hill was named and founded by Carl H. Schultz, founder of a mineral water business once located at First Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets in the
Murray Hill district of
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
. Schultz purchased a large tract of land there during the 1880s where he built a residence for his family and donated land to be used for a train station with the condition that the area be known as "Murray Hill".
Corporate residents
*
C. R. Bard
C. R. Bard, Inc., headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, was a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical technologies in the vascular medicine, urology, oncology, and surgical specialty fields. C. R. Bard marketed its products and ...
, a manufacturer of surgical equipment.
*United States headquarters of
The Linde Group, (formerly
The BOC Group), the world's largest industrial gases company.
Transportation
Mass transit to Murray Hill is available via the
New Jersey Transit Gladstone Branch
The Gladstone Branch (also known as the Gladstone Line) is a commuter rail line operated by NJ Transit from Gladstone station, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, to either Hoboken Terminal or New York Penn Station. It is one of two branches of t ...
train line to the
Murray Hill or
Summit stations. Passengers heading to Nokia Bell Labs can take the
986 bus route to shuttle between the facility and the train station.
Directions to Bell Labs, Murray Hill
, Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel–Lucent S.A. () was a French–American global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter being a su ...
. Accessed June 1, 2012.
See also
* Passaic River Parkway
References
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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
New Providence, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in Union County, New Jersey
Unincorporated communities in New Jersey