Editing Belleville, New Jersey (section)

==Places of interest==
[[File:Dutch Reform Ch military monument Belleville jeh.jpg|thumb|Military monument, Second River Dutch Church]]
* [[Clara Maass Medical Center]] is a 469-bed teaching hospital that is part of the [[Saint Barnabas Medical Center|Barnabas Health]] system, founded in 1868 as Newark German Hospital, and named for [[Clara Maass]], a nurse who died after volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever<ref>[http://www.barnabashealth.org/hospitals/clara_maass/aboutus/ About Us], [[Clara Maass Medical Center]]. Accessed August 21, 2013.</ref>
* [[Belleville Dutch Reformed Church|Reformed Dutch Church of Second River]] – The church's original building was constructed in 1697 and replaced in 1725. A new structure was erected in 1807 after a tornado destroyed the previous church building, and the current church dates to 1853. More than 60 [[Continental Army]] soldiers are buried in the cemetery that adjoins the church.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/08/11/105981860.pdf "A Church with a History"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 11, 1895. Accessed August 21, 2013.</ref><ref>[[Bill Pascrell Jr.]] [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r105:E10MR7-62: 300th Anniversary of the Belleville Reformed Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020120337/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r105:E10MR7-62: |date=October 20, 2013 }}. ''[[Congressional Record]] 105th Congress (1997–1998)'', page E419. March 10, 1997. Accessed August 21, 2013.</ref>
* Christ Church Cemetery & Mausoleum – This cemetery was originally the first Episcopal Church in the area, established in 1746 by a land grant signed by King George II. The original burial ground still exists today, accompanied by a newer mausoleum.<ref>[https://www.memorialproperties.com/cemeteries-nj/belleville/ Christ Church Cemetery & Mausoleum]</ref>

===Belleville locations in ''The Sopranos''===
* Episode 3 ("[[Denial, Anger, Acceptance]]"): [[Christopher Moltisanti]]'s "mock execution" is on the pier in the Passaic River used by [[Belleville High School (Belleville, New Jersey)|Belleville High School]]'s crew team.
* Episode 28 ("[[Proshai, Livushka]]"): Livia Soprano's funeral is held at the Irvine-Cozzarelli Memorial Home, across the street from Belleville Middle School on Washington Avenue.
* Season 4- Even though [[Furio Giunta]]'s house was stated to be in [[Nutley, New Jersey|Nutley]], its actual location was Belleville on Essex Street.
* Episode 55 ("[[Where's Johnny?]]"): [[Junior Soprano|Junior]] gets lost and tells the policemen who find him that he lives in Belleville.
* Episode 76 ("[[Cold Stones]]"): [[Rosalie Aprile]] briefly dates a much younger French motorcyclist named Michel, who hails from [[Belleville, Paris]]. Ro expresses a particular sense of kinship with Michel given his connection to a town with the same name as the New Jersey town where members of her inner circle live (e.g., Corrado Soprano) and do business (e.g., the Irvine-Cozzarelli Memorial Home).

===1996 Torch Relay===
On June 18, 1996, the [[Olympic Torch Relay]] came through Belleville. The relay entered Belleville from Rutgers, made a left onto Washington Avenue, passing the Belleville Town Hall, a right onto Belleville Avenue and stayed on Belleville into the township of Bloomfield. The torch relay ended at [[Atlanta]], Georgia for the [[1996 Summer Olympics]].<ref>Neeley, Dequendre; and Rojas, Diana. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/497858315/ "Aglow with the spirit of the Olympic Games; New Jerseyans carry flame that will end up in Atlanta"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', June 19, 1996. Accessed July 20, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]].</ref>