Watsessing is a neighborhood and
census-designated place (CDP) in
Bloomfield Township,
Essex County,
New Jersey, United States. It is in the southwest corner of the township, bordered to the northwest by
Glen Ridge, to the southwest by
East Orange, to the southeast by the
Ampere North part of Bloomfield, and to the northeast by the rest of Bloomfield.
Watsessing Park is in the center of the community, in the valley of the
Second River or Watsessing River, part of the
Passaic River
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watershed.
The
Garden State Parkway runs through the center of the community, on the southeast side of Watsessing Park, with access from Exit 148. The parkway leads north to
Clifton
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and south through East Orange to
Irvington. The
NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton Line has two stops in the community:
Watsessing Avenue in the southeast and
Bloomfield in the northeast.
Watsessing was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
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Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Essex County, New Jersey
Census-designated places in New Jersey
Bloomfield, New Jersey
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