Englewood, New Jersey Englewood, New Jersey Downtown Englewood, New Jersey Downtown Englewood, New Jersey Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Englewood, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Englewood, New Jersey Englewood is a town/city located in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Englewood was incorporated as a town/city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of Englewood Township.
With the creation of the City of Englewood, Englewood Township was dissolved.
The improve had been called the "English Neighborhood", as the first primarily English-speaking settlement on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River after New Netherland was took in by England in 1664, though other sources mention the Engle family and the heavily forested areas of the improve as the derivation of the name. Other sources indicate that the name is derived from "wood ingle", meaning "woody nook", or that the name was coined anew. Englewood, like the rest of New Jersey, was populated by Lenape Native Americans before to European colonization.
When Henry Hudson sailed up what would turn into known as the Hudson River in 1607, he claimed the entirety of the watershed of the river, including Englewood, for the Netherlands, making the future region of Englewood a part of New Netherland.
However, the region remained largely unsettled under Dutch rule as the Dutch did little to encourage settlement north of undivided Hudson County, as the imposing New Jersey Palisades blocked expansion on the west bank of the Hudson. As of that date, customers of the ENglewood 3, ENglewood 4 and TEaneck 7 exchanges, who could already dial some exchanges in the New York City area, were able to dial 11 metros/cities athwart the United States by dialing the three-digit region code preceding the small-town number. Jackson Hole Diner in Englewood, New Jersey Beginning in 1980, Englewood switched from a Mayor-Council form of government to a modified Council-Manager plan of government in accordance with a Special Charter granted by the New Jersey Legislature. Under this charter, the mayor retains appointive and veto powers, while the council acts as a legislative and policy making body, with some power to appoint and confirm appointments.
The City Council is the legislative branch of government, deciding enhance policy, creating town/city ordinances and resolutions, passing the town/city budget, appropriating funds for town/city services, and hiring the City Manager.
As of 2016, the Mayor of Englewood is Democrat Frank Huttle, III, whose term of office ends December 31, 2018. Members of the City Council are Council President Wayne Hamer (Ward 4; D, 2016), President Pro Tempore Marc Forman (Ward 1; D, 2017), Charles Cobb (At-Large; D, 2018), Michael D.
The Englewood Fire Association, a volunteer business established in 1887 as the city's first organized fire protection service, assembled a firehouse on North Van Brunt Street, near the site of Englewood's current town/city hall.
Englewood is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 37th 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).
Johnson (D, Englewood). 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.
Students from Englewood Cliffs attend Dwight Morrow High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools. As of the 2014-15 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 3,185 students and 294.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 10.8:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are D.
Public school students from the city, 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 an alternative to regular enhance education, the town/city is home of the Englewood on the Palisades Charter School, which had an enrollment of 204 students in Kindergarten through fifth grade, as of the 2014-15 school year. Shalom Academy, a charter school with a focus on Hebrew language immersion, had prepared to open for grades K-5 in September 2011, serving students from both Englewood and Teaneck, but floundered to receive final approval from the New Jersey Department of Education. Dwight-Englewood School, homed in three separate divisions, had an enrollment of 872 students (plus 28 in Pre-K) and 105.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 8.3:1, as of the 2013-14 school year. Founded in 1930, Elisabeth Morrow School serves 460 students in preschool through eighth grade. Moriah School of Englewood, one of the county's largest, is a Jewish day school with an enrollment that had been as high as 1,000 students in preschool through eighth grade. Yeshiva Ohr Simcha serves students in high school for grades 9-12 and offers a postgraduate yeshiva program. Cecilia Interparochial School was closed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark at the end of the 2010-11 school year, with an expected student body of 85 students for K-8 in the following year constituting less than half of the number of students needed to keep the school financially viable.
Aerial view of the George Washington Bridge and Manhattan from above Englewood, New Jersey As of May 2010, the town/city had a total of 75.06 miles (120.80 km) of roadways, of which 64.30 miles (103.48 km) were maintained by the municipality, 8.39 miles (13.50 km) by Bergen County, 1.94 miles (3.12 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and 0.43 miles (0.69 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Route 4, Route 93, Interstate 95 (the New Jersey Turnpike), County Route 501, and County Route 505 also serve Englewood.
The New Jersey Turnpike travels through Englewood for 0.43 miles (0.69 km) near the city's southern border with Leonia, as Interstate 95 arches north from its intersection with Interstate 80 in Teaneck and heads toward the George Washington Bridge. The Northern Branch Corridor Project is a proposed NJ Transit (NJT) universal to extend the Hudson Bergen Light Rail along the line providing service to newly-built stations along the route. The line would stop near the intersection of Route 4 and Route 93, a new Englewood Town Center and terminate at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
A station stop at Depot Square is the city's much-preferred alternative to NJT's proposed new Englewood Town Center Station to the south. Englewood Mayor Frank Huttle III has worked together with Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop to promote on behalf of the universal and obtain the needed state and federal funding needed to proceed with the plan, with Huttle emphasizing the economic benefits from the universal and that the town/city wanted to host the terminus, which would include a parking garage near Englewood Hospital and additional parking near Palisade Avenue in the commercial center of the city. Main article: List of citizens from Englewood, New Jersey a b c d e 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: A LOOK AT NJSGA'S LOST FOUNDING CLUBS" New Jersey State Golf Association.
'The Englewood Golf Club, positioned in Englewood and Leonia in Bergen County, had the distinct honor of hosting both a U.S.
Just three years after the success of the Amateur, Englewood became the only New Jersey club other than Baltusrol to host the U.S.
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Our school serves Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, and our ground is the home of the biggest Interdistrict Public School Choice program in New Jersey, the Academies@Englewood." District knowledge for Englewood Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics.
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NJ Transit should advancement passenger convenience and station visibility by relocating the proposed new Englewood Town Center Station to the northern side of Palisade Avenue along Depot Square, between Bergen Performing Arts (PAC) and the former rail station.
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