Shopping: Nutley has several mom-and-pop establishments along Franklin Avenue, including the Stuffed Cupcake Place, a bakery, and Giovine Music, which sells musical instruments and karaoke equipment and has been in business since 1952.
Ralph's Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant, on Franklin, has been in business for 50 years. The Terrazza Ristorante and Bar is an upscale Italian restaurant with outdoor seating. The area has many Italian spots, including Mamma Vittoria, a bring-your-own-bottle trattoria with a weekday prix fixe lunch, and American Bistro, on Washington Avenue. Local private schools include the Good Shepherd Academy, a Roman Catholic school with around 250 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.ĭining: Several restaurants, most independently or family owned, line Franklin Avenue. The graduation rate in 2010 was 99.7%, with 73.6% of students reporting plans to attend four-year institutions. Shops and restaurants along Franklin Avenue in downtown NutleyĪt the high-school level in 2009-10, 93.6% were proficient or advanced in language-arts literacy and 81.6% in math, compared with 86.3% in language arts and 75.2% in math the previous year. Among eighth-graders in 2009-10, 90.7% were proficient or advanced in language-arts literacy, and 82.3% in math, compared with 94.6% in language arts and 93.1% in math the previous year. Walker Middle School, for seventh- and eighth-graders and Nutley High School.Īccording to state data, 62.7% of fourth-graders were proficient or advanced in language arts literacy in 2009-10, compared with 73.2% the previous year and 83.3% were proficient or advanced in math last year, compared with 80.4% the year before. Schools: Nutley has five elementary schools for kindergarten through sixth grade John H. The 121-acre Brookdale Park, a county park in nearby Bloomfield and Montclair, includes an interpretive trail and rose garden and hosts summer concerts. Yanticaw Park, a 29-acre Essex County park, runs through the township along the Third River and includes footbridges, ball fields and bocce and shuffleboard courts. Parks: The township has more than 100 acres of open space, including nine parks, 12 baseball fields, four soccer fields, tennis courts and a roller-hockey link. "It's a family-oriented town where you can walk." Of Coldwell Banker Franklin Realty, who grew up in Nutley. "We see a lot of young couples because they research and see what kind town it is, how easy it is to get around," says The Nutley Public Library, high school, middle school and athletic field, where high-school sports are a draw for many residents, are all located on or near that strip. Collections at the Nutley Museum, on Church Street, include Annie Oakley memorabilia.įranklin Avenue is the township's main drag, with locally owned shops and restaurants as well as a Starbucks and a longstanding ShopRite supermarket. It has several historic buildings, including the Vreeland Homestead, which was built in 1702 and occupied by British sympathizers during the Revolutionary War, and is now the home of the Nutley Junior Women's Club. Though only known as Nutley since 1902, the area has been settled for more than three centuries. "At one point you couldn't find anything under $400,000." Krisanne Johnson for The Wall Street Journal Memorial Park, shown near Maple Place and Vreeland Avenue, is one of nine township parks in Nutley.
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