Goregaon

Goregaon (pronounced as Goregaanv) is a locality situated at the north of Mumbai. It is a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Line.

Bracketed on either side of the railway line by the Western Express Highway and the Linking Road, Goregaon was primarily a middle-class residential neighbourhood. However, the area is now turning into a wealthy suburb. Famous film studios such as Filmistan and Film City are located here.

Goregaon has three major bus depots. The Bus Depot is located in Goregaon East and the Goregaon Bus Station is located at Goregaon West, and is next to the railway station. Goregaon Bus Depot is further away and closer to Oshiwara Bus Depot.

Until the late 1970s, the suburb was sparsely populated with residential localities which sprung up in Nagars such as Unnat Nagar Vibhag 1 to 4, Jawahar Nagar, Motilal Nagar, Bangur Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Lokmanya Tilak Nagar Road 1 to 6, Siddharth Nagar, BEST Colony, Piramal Nagar, Mahesh Nagar in the West and wadis like Pandurang wadi and Jaiprakash Nagar on the East and Manzil like Madina Manzil on the west.

The eastern boundary of the suburb was effectively the Western Express Highway, which separated Goregaon from Aarey Milk Colony.

The housing boom of the 1980s saw expansion in terms of real estate and population density. On the East, newer areas such as Dindoshi, Gokuldham, Yashodham, Saibaba Complex, Film City Road, etc. and on the West, Bangur Nagar, Lokhandwala Complex (now considered a separate suburb) and Link Road were the development hubs. The rail and road infrastructure was stretched as it did not expand.

Besides the above, Goregaon (E) also is home to the recently developed area known as New Dindoshi consisting of the Nagari Nivara Parishad (NNP), a housing scheme for the lower middle class. There are more than 30,000 people living at NNP, distributed between two zones.

Goregaon is the home of Gokuldham High School.