Best African American towns in NJ (East Orange, Irvington: neighborhoods, schools, gated)

[Newarkbomb]

What do you think are the best highly populated African American towns in NJ are?
I mean i hear a lot of Irvington bashing (im guilty), but there is good highly populated African American towns in NJ too, let them be shown

Highly populated could mean 25% and up i guess.

I would say two are

Maplewood, NJ
Teaneck, NJ

[pbergen]

south orange
maplewood
montclair
teaneck
hackensack
englewood

[Busch Boy]

Montclair and South Orange are another two good examples.

[exit18b]

Teaneck, Montclair, Willingboro, Maplewood, South Orange, Vaux Hall have nice middle class black neighborhoods or pockets of middle class blacks throughout. Also, Englewood, Hackensack, Roselle, Rahway, Bloomfield.

[colleeng47]

Ewing Township.

[ccnj]

Asbury Park

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

Ewing Township.

Ewing was great until about five years ago.......schools are declining and gangs are moving in.

[zhelder]

Now here's another twist I'd like to add:

Are there any TRULY integrated towns with large African-American populations in NJ? Even in the towns mentioned, African-Americans and whites generally tend to live in separate sections of the town (Montclair, West Orange, Teaneck, etc.)

[Nauticadon]

Originally Posted by zhelder

Now here's another twist I'd like to add:

Are there any TRULY integrated towns with large African-American populations in NJ? Even in the towns mentioned, African-Americans and whites generally tend to live in separate sections of the town (Montclair, West Orange, Teaneck, etc.)

I used to live in Montclair. There is a predominately AA section close to the border with East Orange but blacks are spread out all over the town. The street I lived on was interspersed with blacks and whites.

A better question would be are there truly any intergated towns in America?

[Nauticadon]

I see no one mentioned Hillside. Nice town with lots of African Americans.