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is a borough in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,162.
Essex Fells was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 31, 1902, from portions of Caldwell Township (now Fairfield Township). In 1981, Essex Fells became a township to take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies. Effective January 1, 1992, it again became a borough.
magazine ranked Essex Fells as its 10th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.7 km
Grover Cleveland Park, the seventh largest park in the Essex County park system, is a heavily wooded park covering in the western section of the county along the Caldwell-Essex Fells border.