SHORT HILLS, N.J. — In taking office early last year, Mayor Lester E. Taylor III of East Orange, N.J., inherited all the problems known to gritty cities like his, from a deficit and blight to unemployment and crime. But he had one additional difficulty not shared by most of his mayoral peers: a golf course.
Not just any golf course, either, but a course in the rarefied Short Hills section of Millburn, 10 miles and a world removed from the urban streets just outside East Orange City Hall. A course that few of the city’s residents ever see, much less play.