Watsessing is a neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP)[5] located in Bloomfield Township, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

It is in the southwest corner of the township, bordered to the northwest by Glen Ridge, to the southwest by East Orange, to the southeast by the Ampere North part of Bloomfield, and to the northeast by the rest of Bloomfield.

The Garden State Parkway runs through the center of the community, on the southeast side of Watsessing Park, with access from Exit 148.

The NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton Line has two stops in the community: Watsessing Avenue in the southeast and Bloomfield in the northeast.

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