Glen Ridge is located on a ridge on the east side of the First Mountain of the Watchung Mountains. The town stretches from north to south and a maximum of six blocks wide from east to west, and it is only three or two blocks wide in "the Panhandle" north of Bay Avenue.McLoughlin, Mary Lou. "Gaslights Remind Glen Ridge Of Past", The New York Times, November 5, 1972. Accessed April 21, 2012. "Large Victorian and turn-of-the-century homes predominate in the borough, only two miles long and a few blocks in width at its widest point."
