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Roosevelt Park (Edison)
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Edison, New Jersey
Edison Township is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey. What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
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, at Parsonage Road and U.S. Route 1
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, just west of Menlo Park Mall
Menlo Park Mall
Menlo Park Mall is a two-level super regional shopping mall, located on U.S. Route 1 and Parsonage Road in Edison, New Jersey, United States. The mall has a gross leasable area of 1,232,000 ft² . Menlo Park Mall is currently owned by the Simon Property Group.-History:Menlo Park Shopping Center...
. It is owned and operated by the Middlesex County
Middlesex County, New Jersey
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 750,162 people, 265,815 households, and 190,855 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,422 people per square mile . There were 273,637 housing units at an average density of 884 per square mile...
government. It contains a number of picnic groves (with tables and BBQ grills) as well as fields and courts for baseball, soccer, basketball and tennis. The park also contains a facility designed to provide sporting opportunities for people with physical and other special needs. This facility is appropriately named, "The Level Playing Fields," and it offers no impediments to the athletes for whom it was built. Several sports can be accommodated at the facility including soccer and baseball (including a fully equipped artificial-turf diamond with backstop, dugouts, and grandstands for spectators). Adjacent to The Level Playing Fields is an ice skating rink that is opened in the winter. During the summer, this area is used for roller skating.
Other forms of recreation (hiking, walking and jogging) are also provided for, with miles of trails and a measured paved path that encircles a man-made lake.
In the summer, the county sponsors an annual outdoor theater festival called "Plays in the Park."
The Lakeview School and Rehabilitation Center for children with cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
is located within Roosevelt Park.
History
Roosevelt Park was a major part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress AdministrationWorks Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...
(WPA) projects, which provided jobs for the poor and unemployed during the 1930s. Among these jobs was the improvement of Roosevelt Park
