serves downtown Basking Ridge which is the area around the Presbyterian Church and the Old Oak Tree. Cedar Hill School was built 1956. It is situated on land which was once the property of a succession of wealthy families: Owen, Lee, Bissell, and Astor. It was donated in the Mid 1950s by the Lees. It serves the area around William Annin Middle School and Ridge High School. Mount Prospect was built in 1999. The school was built because a new population rolled in by 2000. Basking Ridge was extended southward and a new subdivision was built: The Hills. Mount Prospect is the newest school in the district and serves the Hills. The former Maple Avenue School, a two-story, eight classroom structure, was demolished in the 1970s to make room for the current Basking Ridge Public Library. Transportation Trains NJ Transit's Gladstone Branch runs through Basking Ridge. There are two stations that residents can use to get to New York City and Hoboken Terminal: Basking Ridge: Built in 1912 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, it serves downtown and north Basking Ridge. Lyons: Built in 1931 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, it serves the Hills, and south Basking Ridge in addition to Liberty Corner. Lyons gets more passengers than Basking Ridge. Buses Lakeland Bus Lines (Route 78) provides service to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan during peak commuting hours. Roads and highways Two Interstates are located near Basking Ridge: Interstate 78: Travel west towards Pennsylvania or east towards New York City and Newark Interstate 287: Travel north towards upstate New York or south towards Edison. Notable people Lord Stirling’s Legacy and his grand Stirling Manor People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Basking Ridge include: John Jacob Astor VI (1912–1992), socialite, shipping businessman and member of the Astor family. J. C. Chandor (born 1974), Academy award-nominated writer/director of the 2011 film Margin Call. Chris Daggett (born 1950), former regional administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection who ran for Governor of New Jersey in 2009 as an independent. Scott Fischer (1955–1996), climber and guide who was the first American to climb Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world. He died on May 11, 1996 in an attempt to climb Mount Everest in the 1996 Everest Disaster. Patricia