Question: What was the population of the town in New Jersey that Peter Gadol was born in? 

The New Jersey and New York Railroad (NJ&NY) was a railroad company that operated north from Rutherford, New Jersey, to Haverstraw, New York beginning in the mid-to-late 19th century.  The line was originally chartered as the Hackensack and New York Railroad (H&NY) in 1856.  The H&NY would eventually run from Rutherford to Hackensack, New Jersey.  In 1866 under the leadership of David P. Patterson the company was rechartered as the Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad and it extended its line north of Hackensack.  It later reorganized as the New Jersey and New York Railroad.  The line reached the town of Haverstraw, New York by 1870, the village of West Haverstraw by 1873, and the village of Haverstraw by 1887.  The NJ&NY was in turn leased for 99 years by the Erie Railroad in 1896.  The NJ&NY continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.  In 1976 the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail.  In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to New Jersey Transit Rail Operations.  The segments of the two former railroad lines in New York: north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw and north of Nanuet to New City; are no longer in service. <SEP> Westfield is a town in Union County of New Jersey, United States.  As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 30,316, reflecting an increase of 672 (+2.3%) from the 29,644 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 774 (+2.7%) from the 28,870 counted in the 1990 Census.  According to a 2014 nationwide survey, Westfield is considered to be the 30th-safest city to live in the United States. <SEP> Peter Gadol is an American author.  He received an A.B. "magna cum laude" in English and American Literature from Harvard College in 1986.  While at Harvard, he studied writing with Seamus Heaney, wrote a thesis on Wallace Stevens under the supervision of Helen Vendler, edited the literary magazine "The Harvard Advocate", and was for two years a fiction intern at "The Atlantic".  Gadol was born on April 15, 1964 and grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. <SEP> Middlesex County is a county located in north-central New Jersey, United States.  As of the 2016 Census estimate, the county's population was 837,073, making it the state's second-most populous county, an increase of 3.4% from the 2010 United States Census, when its population was enumerated at 809,858, making it the second-most populous county in the state.  Middlesex is part of the New York metropolitan area, and its county seat is New Brunswick.  The center of population of the state of New Jersey is located in Middlesex County, in East Brunswick Township, just east of the New Jersey Turnpike.  The 2000 Census showed that the county ranked 63rd in the United States among the highest-income counties by median household.  The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 143rd-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the 10th-highest in New Jersey) as of 2009.  Middlesex County holds the nickname, "The Greatest County in the Land".