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Maplewood
FROM TRAIN TUNNEL
TO MUSEUM
Short Hills
MALL AT SHORT HILLS INSTALLS
9,000 SOLAR PANELS
Springfield
GILBERT GOTTFRIED
AT SCOTTY’S
PUB AND
OCTOBER
COMEDY
CLUB
19
7 & 9:30 P.M.
Even if you don’t put the
name with the voice, you
recognize the latter. Lifelong New Yorker
GILBERT GOTTFRIED has been a stand-up
comic since age 15, and was a cast member
of Saturday Night Live in 1980 (he had yet
to pioneer his signature nasal whine at the
time). He has voiced animated characters on
The Fairly OddParents, Ren and Stimpy and
the movie Aladdin (for the parrot Iago), and
made regular appearances on The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno. Gottfried’s Fifty Shades
of Grey reading for College Humor received
over 5 million views on YouTube. See —
and hear — him live at Scotty’s Pub
and Comedy Club. Tickets $30.
• 595 Morris Ave., (973) 376-3840,
scottyssteakhouse.com
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FALL 2019 MILLBURN & SHORT HILLS MAGAZINE
The next time you go to The Mall at Short
Hills, your way will be lit courtesy of the
sun. The mall has added nearly 9,000 SOLAR
PANELS to its campus, a system expected to
offset more than 1,900 tons of carbon dioxide
emissions annually, according to solar develop-
er Safari Energy. The solar panels span
225,500 square feet across the mall’s roof and parking deck; the 3.49-mega-
watt system will produce up to 4.2 million kilowatt-hours of clean energy
annually, enough to power roughly 403 homes for a year. Solar comprises the
bulk of renewable energy in New Jersey. However, renewables make up just
5 percent of the state’s power sector.
Millburn, Maplewood, South Orange
COMPOSTERS WHO COME TO YOU
Michelle and Java Bradley are making an offer
that is too good for people who care about the
environment to refuse: Their business, JAVA’S
COMPOST, provides odorless, animal-proof
buckets for your food waste; they’ll also teach
you how to compost. The company recently
added a food waste pickup service for apart-
ment-dwellers and businesses who can’t com-
post themselves, but want to keep their food
scraps out of the waste stream. Many custom-
ers have already signed up for weekly or bi-monthly pickups from their
Millburn, Maplewood and South Orange homes. Java first became interested in
composting while working as a teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School in
Newark, one of Michelle Obama’s “Garden Schools,” where students grow
food in their rooftop garden, cook it, and compost the waste.
• [email protected], (862) 205-5737, javascompost.com
COURTESY
In late September, the tunnel that connects the
Ricalton Square parking lot with the station on
Dunnell Road became more than just a place
to pass through. It is now home to nine paint-
ings mounted on large wooden frames depict-
ing images as varied as vocal artist and SOMA native SZA, and the work
shown here, “Ants at a Picnic” by Moss Freedman, a playful rendering
of Maplewood residents picnicking at Memorial Park. The artworks were cho-
sen from submissions by close to 100 applicants to the public art project “ART
IN MOTION,” for which the Maplewood Arts Council requested proposals last
winter. The selected winners were compensated through a GoFundMe cam-
paign that raised over $10,000 in generous contributions from many local citi-
zens and businesses, including The Able Baker, Michael Choy and Shannon
Moffett, Pollock Properties Group, and [words] Bookstore.