Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee, New Jersey Borough of Fort Lee Fort Lee, New Jersey in the foreground, connected by the George Washington Bridge to Upper Manhattan, New York City athwart the Hudson River, in the background.
Fort Lee, New Jersey in the foreground, connected by the George Washington Bridge to Upper Manhattan, New York City athwart the Hudson River, in the background.
Map highlighting Fort Lee's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Map highlighting Fort Lee's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Fort Lee, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Fort Lee, New Jersey Named for Fort Lee / General Charles Lee The George Washington Bridge, connecting Fort Lee (above) in Bergen County athwart the Hudson River to New York City, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge. One of two 47-story residentiary high-rise buildings, Bergen County's tallest, is seen under assembly near the gateway to the bridge in December 2013. Fort Lee is a borough at the easterly border of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, situated up on the Hudson Palisades.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's populace was 35,345, reflecting a diminish of 116 ( 0.3%) from the 35,461 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3,464 (+10.8%) from the 31,997 counted in the 1990 Census. The borough is the end of the George Washington Bridge and is positioned athwart the Hudson River from the Manhattan borough of New York City.
Given its evolving cosmopolitan ambiance and adjoining adjacency to Manhattan, Fort Lee is one of Northern New Jersey's Hudson Waterfront communities that has been called New York City's Sixth Borough, Established residentiary high-rises are a prominent feature of the borough of Fort Lee, with a several over 300 feet tall.
Fort Lee is titled for General Charles Lee after George Washington and his troops had camped at Mount Constitution overlooking Burdett's Landing, in defense of New York City.
Fort Lee was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1904, from the remaining portions of Ridgefield Township. With the creation of Fort Lee, Ridgefield Township became defunct and was dissolved as of March 29, 1904. The Fort Lee Police Department was formed under borough ordinance on August 9, 1904, and originally consisted of six marshals. The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee was the motion picture capital of America.
New Jersey offered territory at costs considerably less than New York City, and the metros/cities and suburbs on the North River (Hudson River) and Hudson Palisades benefited greatly as a result of the phenomenal expansion of the film trade at the turn of the 20th century. Film-making began attracting both capital and an innovative workforce, and when the Kalem Company began using Fort Lee in 1907 as a locale for recording in the area, other filmmakers quickly followed.
In 1909, a forerunner of Universal Studios, the Champion Film Company, assembled the first studio. They were quickly followed by the rest who either assembled new studios or who leased facilities in Fort Lee.
In the 1910s and 1920s, film companies such as the Independent Moving Pictures Company, Peerless Studios, The Solax Company, Eclair Studios, Goldwyn Picture Corporation, American Melies (Star Films), World Film Company, Biograph Studios, Fox Film Corporation, Pathe Freres, Metro Pictures Corporation, Victor Film Company, and Selznick Pictures Corporation were all making pictures in Fort Lee.
With the offshoot businesses that sprang up to service, the film studios, for nearly two decades Fort Lee experienced unrivaled prosperity.
However, just as the evolution of Fort Lee manufacturing facilities were gaining strength, Nestor Studios of Bayonne, New Jersey, assembled the first studio in Hollywood in 1911. Nestor Studios, owned by David and William Horsley, later consolidated with Universal Studios; and William Horsley's other company, Hollywood Film Laboratory, is now the earliest existing business in Hollywood, now called the Hollywood Digital Laboratory.
Since 2000, the Fort Lee Film Commission has been charged with celebrating the history of film in Fort Lee, as well as attracting film and tv manufacturing companies to the borough. The Fort Lee lane closure scandal, also known as Bridgegate, was a political scandal that occurred as a result of the concerns about the actions taken by the staff of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his Port Authority appointees to problematic a traffic jam in Fort Lee when dedicated toll lanes for one of the Fort Lee entrances to the upper level on the George Washington Bridge were reduced from three to one from September 9, 2013, to September 13, 2013. One of the reasons suggested for these actions was to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, for not supporting the Republican Chris Christie in the 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial election.
Another theory was that Christie or his aides sought to punish New Jersey Senate majority leader, Loretta Weinberg, who represented the New Jersey precinct including Fort Lee, as retribution for the Democrats' blocking of Christie's reappointment of a New Jersey Supreme Court justice.
At the turn of the 21st century, Fort Lee saw a large Korean migration which has converted much of the town into a large Koreatown, in that many traditional Korean stores and restaurants may be seen in Fort Lee, and the hangul letters of the Korean alphabet are as common as signs in English in parts of the downtown area.
In March 2011 about 2,500 Japanese-Americans were living in Edgewater and Fort Lee, the biggest concentration of Japanese-Americans in New Jersey. As of the 2000 Census, 17.18% of Fort Lee's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, which was the fifth highest in the United States and third highest of any municipality in New Jersey; behind neighboring Palisades Park (36.38%) and Leonia (17.24%) for all places with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. In the same census, 5.56% of Fort Lee's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry, and 6.09% of Fort Lee's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Japanese ancestry, the highest of any municipality in New Jersey for all places with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. In the 2010 Census, 23.5% of inhabitants (8,318 individuals) identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, 7.5% (2,653) as Chinese and 3.7% (1,302) as Japanese. The group now performs regularly at Monument Park (1588 Palisade Avenue, next to the Fort Lee Museum) with 2 Tuesday shows per month for each month of the summer.
Fort Lee 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 Fort Lee, 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 Fort Lee is Democrat Mark Sokolich, whose term of office ends December 31, 2019. Members of the Borough Council are Council President Ila Kasofsky (D, 2016), Harvey Sohmer (D, 2018), Joseph L.
Fort Lee is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 37th state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Fort Lee 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).
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). 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.
The Fort Lee Volunteer Ambulance Corps, established in 1971, provides emergency medical services to the Borough of Fort Lee, the George Washington Bridge, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway.
Fort Lee is protected around the clock by the volunteer firefighters of the Fort Lee Fire Department, which was established in 1888 when the borough was still a part of Ridgefield Township and operates out of four fire stations. The Fort Lee Fire Department operates a fire apparatus fleet of six engines, two trucks, one rescue, one squad, two support services units, two support vans, a mobile air unit, four command vehicles and six fire prevention units. The Fort Lee Fire Department's volunteer fire companies respond to, on average, approximately 1,800 emergency calls annually. The Fort Lee School District serves enhance school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 3,893 students and 285.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.6:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are School 1 (664 students in grades K-6), School 2 (470; Pre - K-6), School 3 (534; K-6), School 4 (551; K-6), Lewis F.
During the 2010 11 school year, School #3 was awarded the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive, one of only ten schools statewide to be honored. The school was one of three in Bergen County honored that year. 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.
Private schools in the region include Christ the Teacher (PK 8, 314 students), First Step Day Care Center (PK, 101 students), Fort Lee Education Center (7 12, 78 students), Fort Lee Montessori Pre-School (PK, 49 students), Fort Lee Youth Center Playgroup (PK, 30 students), Futures Best Nursery Academy (PK, 98 students), Green House Preschool and Kindergarten (PK K, 125 students), Happy Kids Pre-School (PK, 75 students), Hooks Lane School (PK, 54 students), Itsy Bitsy Early Learning Center (PK, 60 students), Palisades Pre-School (PK, 108 students), Rainbow School DC (PK, 88 students), and Small World Montessori School (PK, 51 students). Christ the Teacher Interparochial School operates under the oversight of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. The Japanese Weekend School of New Jersey ( ), a Japanese supplementary educational school, holds its classes at Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus while its offices are in Fort Lee. It is one of the two weekend Japanese school systems directed by the Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; Nyuyoku Nihonjin Kyoiku Shingi Kai), a nonprofit organization which also operates two Japanese day schools in the New York City area. Companies based in Fort Lee include Bank of New Jersey and the American Bank Note Company. As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 51.12 miles (82.27 km) of roadways, of which 35.44 miles (57.04 km) were maintained by the municipality, 6.20 miles (9.98 km) by Bergen County and 6.22 miles (10.01 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 3.26 miles (5.25 km) by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Fort Lee is served by the Palisades Interstate Parkway, Route 4, Route 5, Route 67, Interstate 95 (the northern end of the New Jersey Turnpike), U.S.
The George Washington Bridge (signed as I-95/US 1-9/US 46), the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, crosses the Hudson River from Fort Lee to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. Many of these roads converge at GWB Plaza, a busy crossroads at the northern end of the borough.
The Fort Lee Parking Authority issues and controls parking passes, meter fees, and provides shuttles and non-emergency transportation. Marc Macri, a former law partner of Mayor Mark Sokolich, serves as Commissioner of the Fort Lee Parking Authority. Kennedy International Airport in New York City for customers based in New Jersey.
Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey, writes in and says...." Feder was the brother-in-law of Saturday Night Live writer and segment co-creator Alan Zweibel and an actual Fort Lee resident until he moved to West Nyack, New York in 1981. A key thematic element of the film is the contrast between Roberta's life in New Jersey and her desire to experience Susan's lifestyle in New York City. Chabad of Fort Lee, a Jewish church, was used as the recording locale for the Queens, New York City residence of Detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In late March 2011, a group of teenagers reported that they had been detained by the Fort Lee Police Department who left them in a police van parked for 14 hours overnight at headquarters.
On March 2, 2012, The show Morning Joe on MSNBC aired live from Fort Lee High School.
Al Sharpton, Michelle Rhee, Harold Ford Jr., Howard Dean, Interim Superintendent of Fort Lee Schools (Steven Engravalle) and other invited guests to discuss New Jersey's education reform. See also: Category:People from Fort Lee, New Jersey.
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Feder, 64, was perhaps Fort Lee's best-known resident, jubilated by a recurring character played by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live.
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"When I started to get friendly with Jay, he couldn't explain either, at least not with any clear logic, how he went from being a Jewish kid from the Bronx and Fort Lee, New Jersey, to ending up in the agency business." I lived in Fort Lee and jogged into the Edgewater Colony, and I thought 'One day, I'd love to live here.'" "Comedian buys home; Buddy Hackett New Owner of Anastasia House in Fort Lee", The New York Times, August 30, 1958.
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"Some of the other Jersey inhabitants on the team, as stated to Davis, are Bob Tucker, the New York Giants' tight end from Lincroft; Phil Villapiano, Oakland Raider linebacker from Ocean Township, and Ron Johnson, Giant running back, now a resident of Fort Lee." "Still, the Khatami kids were encouraged to earn their own cash, said Ali Khatami, 44, the President's brother, a businessman who lived in Fort Lee, N.J., for a year and a half while he was getting his master's degree in industrialized engineering." "Levine, who was present at the opening of Valley Alliance's Milken Gym, told The Journal that Super Sunday reminded him of the improve spirit of his home town Fort Lee, New Jersey." "From the Archives: A Main Street Marquee and a Mogul Fort Lee and the MGM Connection; Fort Lee's Metro Theatre on Main Street and the MGM Connection", Fort - Lee - Patch, March 2, 2013.
"According to Fort Lee VFW Commander Jim Viola, the Fort Lee Theatre name changed in the 1930s to the Metro.
"According to Sal Yvars, a former teammate of Marshall's, Willard's previous home in Fort Lee, NJ was assembled on a hill and had a clear and spectacular view of the town/city of New York from his back yard." Bennett Mazur, a Professor And New Jersey Legislator, 69", The New York Times, October 13, 1994.
'Glorifying Jersey; A noted Hollywood screenwriter uses her Jersey roots to help inform her storytelling.", New Jersey Monthly, December 13, 2010.
"'It's definitely part of who I am,' says the Los Angeles-based scribe, who was born in France and moved with her family to Fort Lee when she was 6 months old." ""Billy," as he was called to differentiate Bill Junior from Bill Senior, spent his first two years in a crowded apartment athwart the river in Fort Lee, New Jersey." "Born in Teaneck and raised in Fort Lee and Englewood Cliffs, Porrino presently resides in Union County with his wife, Christina Shenouda, and their two children." Roman travels into Manhattan from his home in Fort Lee, where he has lived for six years, and holds court in one of the dining rooms at the Friars Club, formerly a doctor's town home on East 55th Street." "Fort Lee man continues film legacy", Fort Lee Suburbanite, October 16, 2009.
"Although Rosario's profile in the film trade is steadily rising and Hollywood is on his horizon, he hasn't forgotten about his place of birth in Fort Lee.
'The cool thing about living in Fort Lee is living so close to New York City,' said Rosario." "By this point, August Semmendinger had moved to Fort Lee, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey." He lived in Fort Lee, N.J., for two years, trained in Hackensack." "Soriano 'Tired' Of Trade Talk", New York Daily News, June 17, 2006.
"He will convalesce at his home in Fort Lee, New Jersey." Accessed December 6, 2013 ."Van Fleet was born in Coytesville, New Jersey, March 19, 1892, but raised in Florida and adopted it as his home." "During the baseball season Chien-Ming and his wife, Chia-Ling, whom he met in his first year of college and married in December 2003, live in a modest three-bedroom home in Fort Lee, N.J." Born with the given name Yue, she has adopted Jennifer as her Americanized name, calls Fort Lee, New Jersey, home and is accustomed to American culture and cuisine." "Fort Lee natives win big at Academy Awards", Fort Lee Suburbanite, March 16, 2012.
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