Section: Real Estate
Prudential Cancer Fundraiser A Success
The Prudential New Jersey Properties office at 538 Bloomfield Avenue held a document shredding day on May 12 to benefit the Sunshine Kids Foundation and nearly doubled the donations taken in during its previous shredding event. While Prudential offered the shredding available free of charge, it made it possible for those using the service to [...]
Real Estate For May 12-13
The big reveal of the renovated Hiram Cook Homestead–the home built by the man who gave Verona its park–is this afternoon, Saturday May 12, but the sneak peek on the real estate listing for the home suggests that it will be quite fabulous. When we first saw the house at 14 Manor Road in August [...]
Historic Cook Homestead Open House
The Hiram Cook house has been part of the Verona landscape since 1884, overlooking Verona Lake and Park. The Carpenter Gothic-style residence has recently been renovated by Lenny Shriber of Prudential Real Estate and the Verona Historical Society will host a special open house there on Saturday, May 12, from 2 to 5 p.m. Robert [...]
County Wins Grant To Expand Environmental Center
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced on Monday, April 30,h that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Essex County a $951,000 grant to install solar panels and develop interactive exhibits about energy, electricity and conservation at the Essex County Environmental Center. “Since its opening in 2005, the innovative curriculum, hands-on approach to teaching [...]
Durrell Development Inches Forward
The Verona Planning Board met for nearly four hours on Thursday night to hear plans for a townhouse complex on the site of the former Charles Bahr & Son lumber yard on Durrell Street. Lennar, a national home-building company, intends to fill the 3.6-acre property with 33 attached townhouses spread across six buildings. Each unit [...]
Bahr Redevelopment Meeting Thursday Night
It’s being billed as a regular meeting, but it is likely to be anything but: The agenda for tonight’s gathering of the Verona Planning Board will feature a hearing on a proposal to redevelop the former Charles Bahr & Son lumber yard into a townhouse complex. Lennar, a major national home builder, is looking to [...]
Get Help With Heating Bills
If you need help paying your utility bills, you should know that Monday, April 30, is the deadline to apply for PSE&G’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and for LIHEAP emergency assistance. LIHEAP provides assistance to families and individuals to help pay for home heating and medically necessary cooling costs. Homeowners should apply [...]
Cement Goes Down At Verona Pool
It’s beginning to look more like our pool again. Today, workers began applying a new liner to the Verona Pool. The process involves spraying on a compound made from marble dust and white cement, and then carefully smoothing it, inch by inch. Some of the workers even had sponges strapped to their shoes to aid [...]
Real Estate For April 14-15
After we posted our mid-week update on the improving real estate market in Verona, several more houses went under contract. So if you missed out on the home you had been hoping to buy, here’s what else is available in town, from lowest-priced to highest in each category. Open Houses 119 Grove Avenue: 3 beds, [...]
Verona Real Estate Market Brightens
No, it’s not just your imagination: Homes are selling quickly again in Verona. And, better yet, in more than a few cases, there are multiple offers on them when they go under contract. The home at 30 Birdseye Glen is among them. It came on the market in the last week of February and is [...]