Edgewater, New Jersey Edgewater, New Jersey Edgewater, New Jersey in the foreground, overlooking Manhattan, New York City athwart the Hudson River in the background Edgewater, New Jersey in the foreground, overlooking Manhattan, New York City athwart the Hudson River in the background Official seal of Edgewater, New Jersey Map highlighting Edgewater's locale within Bergen County.
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Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Edgewater, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Edgewater, New Jersey State New Jersey Edgewater is a borough positioned along the Hudson River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Edgewater was incorporated as a municipality on December 7, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township as the Borough of Undercliff, based on the results of a popular vote that passed two days earlier. The borough was formed amid the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The borough's name was changed to Edgewater on November 8, 1899. The borough was titled for its locale on the Hudson River. The Lenape were a small-town tribe of Native Americans associated with the neighboring borough of Fort Lee. David Pietersz Devries (also transliterated as David Pietersen de Vries), the first European settler, bought 500 acres (202 ha) of territory from the Tappan tribe and established the settlement of Vriessendael in what is now Edgewater. A historical plaque placed in Veteran's Field by the Bergen County Historical Society names Vriessendael as the first known colony in Bergen County with a beginning date of 1640.
Vriessendael was finished in 1643 in Kieft's War by Indians reacting to foolish actions by the Director General of the Dutch West India Company, who lived athwart the river in New Amsterdam, as Manhattan was then known. In pioneer days, River Road was known as the Hackensack Turnpike, and Ox Hill Road was an meaningful route to the top of the Palisades Cliff. While Oxen Hill Road still exists as a thoroughfare, another Colonial hallmark and primary small-town trade has only recently disappeared: shad fishing.
The Undercliff section in the northern section of Edgewater was originally a colony of fishermen. In the 1980s there were still about 100 commercial fishermen in New Jersey harvesting shad from their annual spring run from the Atlantic Ocean up the Hudson River to spawn.
The ferry functioned as the link for supplies, knowledge and transit between Fort Lee on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River and Fort Washington on the New York side. In the century following the Revolutionary war, north Edgewater advanced into a resort region with large hotels assembled in the mid- and late 19th century. It was in the 19th century that Burdett's Landing became known as "Old Stone Dock", as cobblestones quarried from the Palisades Cliffs by Russell & Read were shipped athwart the Hudson to fill the demand for paving Manhattan streets. Concern over the destruction caused by quarrying operations led to the formation of the Palisades Interstate Park in 1900, which was effective in preserving the cliffs. Although the first chemical plant was established in 1843 in the south section of the borough, throughout the 19th century the town retained a bucolic character. Early in the 20th century the addition of landfill to the Hudson River changed the borough's appearance.
Transportation of factory goods was facilitated when the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway cut the Edgewater Tunnel through the Palisades in 1894 to connect the borough to its chief line. Edgewater was also well situated for shipping, with deep water piers on the Hudson River and access to abundant workforce from Manhattan. Generally, industrialized evolution occurred in the southern end of the borough, while the northern end remained residentiary. As industrialization increased in the borough, picnic grounds lost their appeal and resort hotels faded. By 1918, there were 8,044 workers working by Edgewater's manufacturing facilities, producing primarily chemicals, dyes, and confectionery products such as oils and sugars.
Prominent industries of Edgewater encompassed a Ford assembly plant, Alcoa, Valvoline, and the American Can Company. Railroad trains served various factories, traversing tracks laid in River Road. During the first 30 years of the century, Edgewater's populace quadrupled, and the transient workforce increased tenfold. Eventually the factories closed.
Joseph Mitchell's essay The Rivermen, which was presented in The New Yorker and is encompassed in his book The Bottom of the Harbor, provides an evocative portrait of life in Edgewater in the early 20th century. With the method of the factories, evolution initially came to Edgewater in the 1960s and interval exponentially in the early 1980s, as developers began projects to convert the industrialized sites that had historically led to Edgewater not being considered as an option for development. As condominiums were assembled along the Hudson where trade had formerly directed , the populace of Edgewater interval rapidly.
Because of the cost of buying property, some presently refer to Edgewater as part of the Gold Coast. A photographic history of Edgewater describes the populace and demographics change and its possible consequence this way: The River Walk in north Edgewater with a view of the Hudson River and George Washington Bridge in the background The borough borders Cliffside Park and Fort Lee in Bergen County; North Bergen in Hudson County; and the New York City borough of Manhattan athwart the Hudson River. As of March 2011 about 2,500 Japanese-Americans combined live in Edgewater and Fort Lee; this is the biggest concentration of Japanese-Americans in New Jersey. In the 2000 Census, 11.83% of Edgewater's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, which was the ninth highest in the United States and seventh highest of any municipality in New Jersey, for all places with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. 3.22% of inhabitants identified themselves as being of Japanese ancestry, which was the third highest of any municipality in New Jersey, behind Fort Lee (6.09%) and Demarest (3.72%). In the 2010 Census, those reporting Korean lineage had increased to 19.6% of the populace (2,258 residents), while the percentage of Japanese inhabitants had risen to 4.9% (560 residents). Veterans' Field is positioned on River Road (County Route 505) in the north section of Edgewater, lying along the Hudson River.
Borough Hall, the Binghamton Ferry and the Edgewater Public Library are listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. Constructed in 1904, Borough Hall was granted $406,000 by Senate and General Assembly of New Jersey in August 2009 for restoration of the building. Among other renovations, the missing gargoyles were returned to the 1902 edifice. The Binghamton Ferry, permanently anchored at the Binghamton Shopping Plaza, was assembled in 1904 1905 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry dock Company, Newport News, Virginia The only double-ended Steam powered ferry boat still on the Hudson River, the Binghamton ferried passengers from New Jersey to Barclay Street in Manhattan for many years and was retired in 1967. The last remaining of 15 Carnegie libraries in New Jersey assembled with $15,000 in funds from the Carnegie Foundation, the Edgewater Free Library was dedicated on February 8, 1916. Edgewater opened its library in 1910, before to the donation from the Carnegie Foundation, with 817 books on its shelves. In addition to these sites, the Eleanor Van Gelder School is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. These small, green parrots have lived in Edgewater since at least 1980 and were numbered at 200 to 230 in a 2008 article in The New York Times. They are easily seen in Memorial Park and its vicinity at River Road and Route 5.
Edgewater is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.
The Borough Council consists of six members propel to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The Borough form of government used by Edgewater, the most common fitness used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie.
As of 2016, the mayor of Edgewater is Democrat Michael Mc - Partland, whose term of office ends December 31, 2019. Members of the Edgewater Borough Council are Council President Anthony Bartolomeo (D, 2018), Duane Fischetti (D, 2016; propel to serve an unexpired term), Michael H.
The Edgewater administrative offices and police department moved from 916 River Road to the new Borough Hall, 55 River Road, in 2011, with a dedication ceremony on October 16.
Edgewater is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 32nd state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Edgewater had been in the 38th state legislative district. New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District is represented by Bill Pascrell (D, Paterson). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Jimenez (D, West New York) and Vincent Prieto (D, Secaucus). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Bergen County is governed by a directly propel County Executive, with legislative functions performed by a seven-member Board of Chosen Freeholders. As of 2015, the County Executive is James J.
Tedesco III (D, Paramus; term ends December 31, 2018). The seven freeholders are propel at-large in partisan elections on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election each year, with a Chairman, Vice Chairman and Chairman Pro Tempore chose from among its members at a reorganization meeting held each January. Bergen County's Freeholders are Freeholder Chairwoman Joan Voss (D, 2017; Fort Lee), Vice Chairman Steve Tanelli (D, 2015; North Arlington) Chairman Pro Tempore John A.
For seventh through twelfth grades, 380 enhance school students from the borough are sent to the Leonia Public Schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Schools in the precinct attended by Edgewater students (with 2013-14 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Leonia Middle School for grades 7 and 8 (which had 482 students in grades 6 - 8), and Leonia High School which had 696 students in grades 9 - 12. Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are eligible to attend the secondary education programs offered by the Bergen County Technical Schools, which include the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, and the Bergen Tech ground in Teterboro or Paramus.
As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 11.19 miles (18.01 km) of roadways, of which 6.38 miles (10.27 km) were maintained by the municipality, 4.03 miles (6.49 km) by Bergen County and 0.78 miles (1.26 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Several ferries directed in Edgewater in the past, with the old Edgewater Ferry Terminal historically positioned about 100 yards from the current ferry terminal.
The last ferry in the 20th century crossed the river in 1950. The Borough was also site of the Trolley terminal for various electric lines in New Jersey. Situated athwart River Road from the old Ferry Terminal, it met passengers arriving from Manhattan.
See also: Category:People from Edgewater, New Jersey.
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When she's not playing 12-hour Sims marathons at her home in Edgewater, New Jersey the tony suburb that is also home to Tyson Beckford and Q-Tip she's working on writing her own Lord of the Rings style series." "She presently resides with her husband Ashkan, and their daughter, Farahnaz V, in the 'small' borough of Edgewater NJ, positioned along the Hudson River (7 minutes from Manhattan via NY Waterway)." "He says now that he was mainly tired after the rigors of competition, and homesick from being away from his Edgewater, New Jersey, home." "Person-to-Person: Edgewater's Harris Faulkner of Fox News is a self-described news junkie", (201) Magazine, January 2013.
"The Fox News senior correspondent owns two homes in the 26-acre Edgewater Colony, where inhabitants own their homes but share ownership of the land....
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"With the fury and excitement of the 48th Super Bowl just a several miles away in Giant Stadium in East Rutherford, it brings to mind the superb athletic accomplishments of an Edgewater man who was born in Edgewater Feb.
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