๐บ๐ธ Wayne is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, located less than 20 miles (32ย km) from Midtown Manhattan, and is home to William Paterson University.
Points of interest include Willowbrook Mall, Wayne Towne Center, High Mountain Park Preserve, and Dey Mansion.
Wayne shares its borders with 11 neighbouring municipalities: Haledon, Little Falls, North Haledon, Pompton Lakes and Totowa in Passaic County; Franklin Lakes and Oakland in Bergen County; Fairfield and North Caldwell in Essex County; and Lincoln Park and Pequannock in Morris County.
1Neighbourhoods and lake communities Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Barbours Mills, Barbours Pond, Lower Preakness, Mountain View, Packanack Lake, Pines Lake, Point View, Pompton Falls, Preakness and Two Bridges.
Wayne has a number of lakes, with distinct communities and neighbourhoods located around them. These include Packanack Lake, Pines Lake, Lions Head Lake, Tom's Lake and Pompton Lake (half of which is in Wayne). The Passaic River also flows through a portion of Wayne and often floods near Willowbrook Mall and riverside neighbourhoods.
1Economy Wayne was home to the Toys "R" Us United States corporate headquarters, before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2017 and ceased to operate as an independent, publicly traded firm. Brands associated with the former toy-retailer firm were acquired by Tru Kids. The former Toys "R" Us headquarters at One Geoffrey Way is now home to medical device manufacturer Getinge, housing their United States sales, service and training operations. Wayne continues to host the headquarters of the Valley Bank (formerly Valley National Bank) corporate headquarters. JVC has their US office in Wayne and employ approximately 19,040.
Willowbrook Mall is a two-level indoor shopping mall in the township, the fourth-largest mall in the state, featuring 200 retail establishments and a gross leasable area (GLA) of 1,514,000 square feet (140,700ย mยฒ). The Willowbrook Mall went through a renovation in 2018โ2019 that saw new flooring, lighting, seating and a few new restaurants added. Sears was closed and a Sears Tire Center was demolished; a 12-screen state-of-the-art Cinemark movie theatre was built in its place. Adjacent to it is the Wayne Towne Center regional shopping centre, which features a movie theatre under the AMC brand.
Wayne Today is a local weekly magazine.
1Education William Paterson University, founded in 1855, has over 11,500 students in its undergraduate and graduate programs.
Passaic County Community College's Public Safety Academy (PSA) on Oldham Road offers training and facilities for fire fighting and emergency medical personnel. Adjacent to it is the Passaic County Police Academy, where police recruits and alternate route candidates are given basic police training.
1Transport: Road As of Mayย 2010, the township had a total of 229.48 miles (369.31ย km) of roadways, of which 180.59 miles (290.63ย km) were maintained by the municipality, 41.05 miles (66.06ย km) by Passaic County and 7.84 miles (12.62ย km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
Wayne is crisscrossed by several major roadways, including Interstate 80, U.S. Route 46, U.S. Route 202, Route 23, County Route 502, and County Route 504.
1Transport Wayne is served by NJ Transit at the Mountain View and Wayne Route 23 stations, offering service to Hoboken Terminal, with connections to Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan on the Montclair-Boonton Line. Wayne-Route 23 station opened in January 2008 and offers train service via the Montclair-Boonton Line. There is regular bus service into the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 194 Newfoundland-New York route and the 198 William Paterson University-New York route on weekends, with local service on the 748 Paterson-Willowbrook route (except Sunday).
NJ Transit provides bus service to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 191, 193, 194, 195 and 324; to Newark on the 11 and 28 (Saturday and Sunday only) routes, with local service provided on the 873, 704, 705, 712, 744, 748, 970 and 971 routes. In September 2012, as part of budget cuts, NJ Transit suspended service to Newark on the 75 line.
Wayne is 25.9 miles (41.7ย km) from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark / Elizabeth, and 30 miles (48ย km) from LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens.
1Wayne has a population of over 54,717 people. Wayne also forms one of the centres of the wider Passaic County which has a population of over 524,118 people.
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๐ฎ๐น Giugliano in Campania 40.929
๐ต๐น Santa Maria da Feira 40.933
๐บ๐ธ Bellefonte 40.9
๐บ๐ธ Hackensack 40.887
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๐บ๐ธ East Orange -74.217
๐จ๐ด Santa Marta -74.205
๐บ๐ธ Toms River -74.166
๐บ๐ธ Woodbridge -74.279
๐บ๐ธ Old Bridge -74.309
๐บ๐ธ Gloversville -74.35
๐บ๐ธ Plainfield -74.416
๐บ๐ธ Middletown -74.417
๐บ๐ธ Atlantic City -74.417
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Locations Near: Wayne -74.2572,40.9124
๐บ๐ธ Paterson -74.172,40.917 d: 7.2
๐บ๐ธ Clifton -74.16,40.862 d: 9.9
๐บ๐ธ East Orange -74.217,40.752 d: 18.1
๐บ๐ธ Parsippany -74.423,40.86 d: 15.1
๐บ๐ธ Irvington -74.233,40.724 d: 21.1
๐บ๐ธ Newark -74.173,40.724 d: 22.1
๐บ๐ธ Hackensack -74.043,40.887 d: 18.3
๐บ๐ธ Ramapo -74.111,41.111 d: 25.3
๐บ๐ธ Elizabeth -74.212,40.664 d: 27.9
๐บ๐ธ Morristown -74.488,40.794 d: 23.5
Antipodal to: Wayne 105.743,-40.912
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