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East Orange

East Orange, city (1990 pop. 73,552), Essex co., NE N.J.; settled 1678, separated from Orange and inc. 1863. A residential city adjacent to Newark, it also has various manufactures. Upsala College, here since 1893, closed in 1995.

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