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In 2026, Murray Hill Square marks 50 years as one of New Jersey’s most distinctive places to live, gather, and belong.
What began as a thoughtfully designed specialty shopping center evolved into an unlike-anywhere-else condominium community, layered with stories, experiments, friendships, and everyday moments that never made the brochures. Its history lives less in official records and more in personal memory.
This public forum invites those memories. Residents past and present, shop owners, architects, neighbors, and visitors are invited to share stories, photographs, reflections, and recollections both big and small. What did Murray Hill Square mean to you? How did it shape your days, your sense of home, or your idea of community?
This is a collective remembering. A chance to capture the human history behind an architectural experiment that dared to be different and, in doing so, became something lasting.
Your voice is part of the square’s story.
I remember walking around there with my family in the 70s. We never went into any of the shops because they were "too expensive." The one I really wanted to go into was the dollhouse shop, but I could only look through the window. I now live just across the train tracks, and yes, I still like to look through the windows, though only in passing. I included the big, beautiful holly tree that used to be on Floral in one of my articles a few years ago.