What do you call your neighborhood in Maplewood? archived

Soba - South of Baldwin
Summit Heights
Summitsia

I call my neighborhood, "the neighborhood behind the middle school"...I never call it Golf Island.

The Jefferson area is what my neighborhood is called. I must like my neighborhood, because I have lived here 33 years.

Kendal Valley.

when i moved here, friends lived on yale st and it was known as "college hill" so as a joke we called my street diversity hill because it isn't as traditionally family oriented but mainly, because i lived on it...and that was really the big joke. i'm in that corner of maplewood between harvard and millburn aves, valley and springfield. is there a name for this area?

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Oldstone, we used to live in that area and right after I moved in (early 1996) a Neighbrhood Assoc. formed, calling it the Mill Ridge area.
More often than not though, I had heard it referred to as the Tuscan section.

I don't know if Maplewood Ave has a formal area name, but here are a few suggestions:

Talledagah - for all the drivers who think that is where they are.

Demolition Derby - in honor of all the brave souls whose lives have been involuntarily changed trying to negotiate the corner of Maplewood and Jefferson.

Land Barge Mooring - cause that's what it looks like during the weekday, along with the typical flotsam and trash you find floating in yacht basins. :angry:

shh, i like it ! the little kids go to tuscan school around here so i guess it's the mill ridge section of the tuscan district much like the college hill section.

I understand my area is called Maplecrest, but I don't hear people use the term.

The post office web site lists Maplecrest as the alternative name for 07040, i.e. the whole town. On some web sites where I put in my zip code, they think I live in a town called Maplecrest.

We call it, everywhere from Pool - Valley St - 5 - 10 grand taxes, Valley St. - Maplewood Ave. 10-15 grand in property taxes area, Maplewood Ave - Ridgewood Rd. - 15-18 grand in property taxes, Ridgewood Rd. - Wyoming Ave. 15-20k - Anywhere above Wyoming over 20 grand.

where we live, we call it "the best kept secret in Maplewood"!!!!!
....that would be a dead end street between Ridgewood Road and Kendal!!!!
;-)
b

I live on Kensington in the Kensington section which I moved to from the Kensington section of Brooklyn. It is over by the high school.

east of springfield ave = maplehood
between prospect and springfield ave = maplewood
west of prospect = maplegood

Such an original post lester. We all thank you from the bottom of our heart. Where ya livin now bub?

We live near the Maplewood Municipal Building and that's what I've always referred to it as. Have no idea if there's a different name, for I've never heard it used.

I never know what to call my area. It's Warren off Parker. Once in awhile I get a flyer for a neighborhood association (can't recall name) but at least at my end of the street we're pretty disconnected from the whole "neighborhood" feeling of which many posters speak.

We live in an area known as Midland Park, I think. Between Parker & Elmwood, and Summit & Boyden.

Cynical, I think you are in the Midland Park association, if I'm not mistaken (which I could very well be). That's where we are, as well.

And Lester, I think the original post already acknowledged and dismissed the standard nicknames. What's you real one?

People, this is the most ridiculous thread ever, you all live in MAPLEWOOD

I know how many Manhattan transplants their are to the area, but hate to break it to you, it's a TOWNSHIP, you all live in the same town.

You all have the same zip code -07040 and same area code 973

When we moved to MW in 1979 neighborhoods were usually identified by the local grade school; Jefferson, Clinton and Tuscan. The exception was the area east of SA which was always known as HIlton.

Over the years various neighborhood associations sprang up and named smaller sections to their interest such as Midland Park (actually the area was called Summt Park when it was sub-divided), Kensington (although I like "The Box" better), Berkshire Park (around Clinton School), Maplecrest, Ligtening Brook (a portion of Hilton), College Hill (although there is no college), etc.

Good or bad? I really don't know.

Between Ridgewood and Wyoming --- The good side of town.

Does anyone remember the classic New Yorker cover which carved up Manhattan into neighborhoods and named them after the characteristics of its inhabitants - like , Trumpistan, botoxia, gaymenistan, blahnickville etc. We have lots of artists here - maybe some enterprising soul could do that for Maplewood/South Orange.

I was just on Google Maps. It has the area east of Prospect and north of Parker labeled "Newark Heights." It's also the only neighborhood in MW that bears a name on Google.

David, I think the Newark Heights designation is carried over from some really old maps and may even be a cartographers error. Some maps call the area around Mountain Avenue and Clinton Avenue "Vauxhall", which I think is a similar situation.

"...College Hill (although there is no college), etc. '

BobK, you know of course that College Hill is named that because of it's street names, Yale, Bowdoin,Rutgers,Princeton,Harvard,Oberlin etc.

Yep of course, and you forgot Amherst. :devil:

Still I never heard that area called College Hill until a few years ago, which makes me wonder if it is an invention of an over caffinated real estate broker.

When, I moved in about 10 years ago the College Hill Neighborhood Association was active so it had to be around at least more than a few years. I think historically the whole area up until it was developed in the 1920's was part of the Courter Farm.