Murray Hill is an unincorporated area within portions of both Berkeley Heights and New Providence, located in Union County in northern New Jersey, United States.
It is the longtime central location of Bell Labs (now part of Alcatel-Lucent) and shares its ZIP Code 07974 with the neighboring borough of New Providence.
Local tradition has it that the area was named after the Bell Labs location in Murray Hill, Manhattan and when the facilities moved ...
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Murray Hill is an unincorporated area within portions of both Berkeley Heights and New Providence, located in Union County in northern New Jersey, United States.
It is the longtime central location of Bell Labs (now part of Alcatel-Lucent) and shares its ZIP Code 07974 with the neighboring borough of New Providence.
Local tradition has it that the area was named after the Bell Labs location in Murray Hill, Manhattan and when the facilities moved to New Jersey in 1941, workers continued to refer to the "Murray Hill Bell Labs", giving the area a new name. In fact the old Bell Laboratories Building (Manhattan) was at 463 West Street in Greenwich Village (now WestBeth artists housing) miles away from Murray Hill Manhattan.
Murray Hill, NJ was named and founded by Carl H. Schultz, founder of an immense mineral water business once located at First Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan . He purchased a large tract of land there during the 1880s where...
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