Roselle is a compact borough in Union County situated between Elizabeth, Linden, Cranford, Roselle Park, and Union Township. The community is primarily residential, with neighborhood businesses, schools, churches, parks, apartment buildings, and light industrial areas woven into an established street grid. Local roads provide quick access to Routes 1 and 9, the Garden State Parkway, Route 27, and nearby NJ Transit stations in Linden, Elizabeth, and Roselle Park. Warinanco Park lies along the borough’s eastern edge and provides athletic fields, paths, a lake, and year-round recreation for surrounding communities. Roselle has a notable place in electrical history because an early central power system demonstrated the practical use of electric street lighting in the borough during the nineteenth century. Housing includes older single-family homes, two-family residences, and multifamily buildings. Its location near several major employment and transportation centers gives Roselle close ties to both the urban communities around Newark and the suburban municipalities farther west.