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A local community center that offers tennis, basketball, soccer and other various family activities. Includes instructors that give lessons for tennis, dance, and swimming during the summer months. The center is mainly geared towards families, but the basketball court is frequently occupied by teenagers.
In 1887 Edison moved his laboratory from Menlo Park to West Orange. He worked there until his death in 1931. In West Orange he improved his phonograph and storage battery and did all of his work on motion pictures. His lab and home are now preserved by the National Park Service as Thomas Edison National Historical Park, which is 7 miles from downtown Newark, and accessible by public transport.
Historic 400+-acre park with trails, a 9/11 memorial, and NYC views.
Largest collection of cherry blossoms in the United States of America.