Editing Rahway, New Jersey (section)

===Library and other media===
[[File:Binder20230301 10.jpg|thumb|The [[bookbinding|book bindery]] room at Quinn & Boden Company in Rahway in the early 1920s.]]
In September 1999, remnants of [[Hurricane Floyd]] swept across New Jersey and caused severe damage. The Rahway Public Library was on a flood plain and suffered over US$1 million in flood damage. The building was demolished in October 2001 and a new library was constructed and opened on March 22, 2004, behind the city's municipal building along a less flood-prone area of the Rahway River.<ref>Russell, Suzanne C. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130723201350/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/mycentraljersey/access/1851557451.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+14%2C+1999&author=SUZANNE+C+RUSSELL&pub=Home+News+Tribune&desc=RAHWAY+FEMA+action+closes+books+on+Rahway%27s+flood-damaged+library&pqatl=google "Rahway FEMA action closes books on Rahway's flood-damaged library"], ''[[Home News Tribune]]'', November 14, 1999. Accessed May 20, 2012. "The flood-damaged Rahway Public Library will never reopen at the St. Georges Avenue building because Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have deemed the damage too severe. Instead, a new library and technology center are planned by the city for the 40,000-square-foot SDI Technologies building on Main Street, Rahway officials said."</ref> The site of the former Rahway Public Library now contains [[tennis court]]s and a small playground. The new library opened in 2004.<ref>[https://www.rahwaylibrary.org/About.aspx#:~:text=A%20ribbon%20cutting%20was%20held,service%20on%20March%2022%2C%202004.] Accessed September 15, 2023.</ref>

Historian and Rahway native Eva Bridges opened the city's Black-owned bookstore, Bridges Book Center Afro-American Research Library & Museum, located at 1480 Main Street, in 1970.<ref>Ethel M. Washington, Union County Black Americans. Pg 52 (2004)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mycentraljersey/name/eva-bridges-obituary?id=11793570|title=Eva Bridges Obituary (1923 - 2017) - 94, Rahway, NJ - MyCentralJersey|website=Legacy.com}}</ref>