Essex Fells, N.J.: âItâs Very Norman Rockwellâ
With its highly regarded schools, grand old homes and close-knit community, the borough is one of Essex Countyâs most desirable areas.
Feb. 17, 2021
After spending much of her adult life working abroad, then moving to Brooklyn and starting a family, Christina PioCosta-Lahue discovered she
could go home again. Last summer, she moved back to Essex Fells, the tiny northern New Jersey suburb where she grew up.
Ms. PioCosta-Lahue, 42, and her husband, Emmett Williams, 58, who have a toddler son and another child on the way, traded a small apartment in the brownstone they own in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a stucco colonial on 1.26 acres, paying $1.087 million. They had also searched in Montclair, about five miles east, but found comparable houses more expensive and on smaller lots.
H. Peter Schaub Jr., 98, of Roseland, passed away on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.
Born in Orange in 1922, he lived in Essex Fells and Livingston before moving to Roseland in 1999.
A veteran of World War II, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard for three and a half years.
He joined Smith Barney, Inc. in 1979, having previously been president of Harry P. Schaub, Inc., one of the oldest and independent investment firms in New Jersey.
He attended Newark Academy and Dartmouth College. In 1981, he was designated a Certified Financial Planner by the College of Financial Planning in Denver.
He was also a trustee of the AAA New Jersey Club from 1977 to 1995 and chairman in 1991. Long active in the financing, management and operation of public and private toll bridges, he was president of the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge prior to its sale to the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission in 1959. He was also a director of the Detroit International Bridge Co. (Ambassador Bridge) for 16 years until 1979.