Harrison, New Jersey
Harrison, New Jersey Location of Harrison inside Hudson County and the state of New Jersey Location of Harrison inside Hudson County and the state of New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Harrison, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Harrison, New Jersey State New Jersey Harrison is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
It is a suburb of the close-by city of Newark, New Jersey.
As of the 2010 United States Census, Harrison's populace was 13,620, reflecting a diminish of 804 ( 5.6%) from the 14,424 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 999 (+7.4%) from the 13,425 counted in the 1990 Census. Once considered "the beehive of industry", the town is undergoing a residentiary renewal, especially along the Passaic River. In 1826, the New Jersey Legislature, Lodi Township was formed from the southern portion of New Barbadoes Neck in Bergen County. Since Lodi Township was part of Bergen County, matters dealing with the county government and courts had to be taken to Hackensack.
In 1840, the inhabitants of Lodi Township joined with present-day Secaucus, Bayonne, Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, and Union City and petitioned for the creation of a new county due to the great distance which the petitioners had to travel to reach the governmental center of county in Hackensack.
The first committee meeting of the Township of Harrison was held on April 16, 1840, and it is widely accepted that Harrison was titled for President William Henry Harrison, who was propel that year. Harrison is governed under the Town form of New Jersey municipal government.
Town Council meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm (except in July and August, when no meetings are held, at the call of the chairman), in Council Chambers, which is positioned on the second floor of the Town Hall at 318 Harrison Avenue.
Fife, who is serving a term of office ending December 31, 2018. While serving a term scheduled to end on December 31, 2014, longtime Mayor Raymond Mc - Donough died on February 12, 2014, after suffering a heart attack at town hall. The town council chose Fife, a former Harrison High School principal, to complete the term. Members of the Harrison Town Council are Laurence M.
He also served one term in the New Jersey State Senate, from 1979 to 1983. Harrison is positioned in the 8th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 32nd state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Harrison had been part of the 13th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's Eighth Congressional District is represented by Albio Sires (D, West New York). 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). De - Gise.Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders District 9, comprising the West Hudson suburbs of Kearny, Harrison, and East Newark and most of Secaucus, is represented by Albert Cifelli. The precinct is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide, which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the oversight of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority. As of the 2011 12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 2,031 students and 153.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.23:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Lincoln Elementary School (grades Pre-K to 3; 653 students), Hamilton Intermediate School (4 5; 295), Washington Middle School (6 8; 429) and Harrison High School (9 12; 654). In September 2007, Harrison realigned the grades being homed in each of the school buildings in town.
The new Harrison High School positioned on Hamilton Street between Kingsland and Schuyler Avenues opened to students in grades 9 12.
As a result, the old Harrison High School building, positioned on 1 North 5th Street, was retitled as Washington Middle School.
Holy Cross School has since been vacated by the Harrison Public School district.
The Harrison Public School District is participating in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.
School year parents can request to transfer a child from the Washington School, designated by the State of New Jersey as a Category I School, to another school which is not a Category I School.
Since there is only one elementary school in Harrison, parents can request a transfer to the Hoboken Public Schools under the Choice program.
In 2000, the then Harrison High School building (now Washington Middle School) was used as the locale of an open casting call by HBO for the series The Sopranos, which brought 15,000-plus TV star hopefuls to the town, doubling the town's populace and bringing traffic to a standstill. In September 2013, Harrison High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, one of 286 in the nation to receive the award that year. The Harrison Club is part of Multiple District 16 (New Jersey) which is part of Lions Clubs International (LCI), the world's biggest service organization.
As of May 2010, the town had a total of 18.15 miles (29.21 km) of roadways, of which 15.23 miles (24.51 km) were maintained by the municipality, 1.57 miles (2.53 km) by Hudson County and 1.35 miles (2.17 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Eastward, it leads to Route 7 and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Replacement of Interstate 280's partial access in central Harrison with service roads, a new interchange, and an overpass (to advancement access to Harrison Avenue, the PATH station, and Red Bull Arena, and to give north-south passage to small-town street traffic) is in the planning stages. The Harrison station on the PATH rapid transit fitness offers service to Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken and New York City.
The closest airport in New Jersey with scheduled passenger service is Newark Liberty International Airport, positioned 4.8 miles (7.7 km) away in Newark and Elizabeth.
The Harrison Waterfront Redevelopment Plan invited developers to submit plans that capitalize on the existence of the Harrison PATH Station and the Passaic River inside a 275-acre (1.11 km2) region that covers 35% of the whole town.
The Plan seeks to unite the developers' proposals with a design infamous that includes motifs from Harrison's industrial, cultural, and surroundingal history as a means of fostering a new identity for Harrison that provides a range of mixed-use, transit-oriented, pedestrian-scale evolution that will make Harrison a county-wide destination. See also: Category:People from Harrison, New Jersey.
(1902 1969), served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jersey's 10th congressional districts. Mc - Donald (1844 1926), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional precinct from 1895 to 1899. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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In June 1671, Nathaniel Kingsland sold the southern third of New Barbadoes Neck (Harrison, East Newark, Kearny and North Arlington) to William Sanford for 200 pounds." Bergen County New Jersey Municipalities, Dutch Door Genealogy.
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"This new soccer place 25,000 seats, costing $200 million, real grass, real soccer contours is an entire new locale, an entire new feel.
"After five years there, the Fuentes emigrated to the United States, moving to Newark, New Jersey, and eventually settling in neighboring Harrison." A native of Harrison, N.J., Gilmore was recruited by a several Division I schools out of high school, but his grades weren't quite good enough, so he made the more-than 1,500-mile trek from New Jersey to Nebraska to play football and advancement his academic standing at Mc - Cook." "Beverly Kenney was born in Harrison, New Jersey, on January 29, 1932, the earliest of nine kids (four boys, four girls, and a brother, Charles, who died in infancy; the Kenney parents divorced after Beverly was on her own, and two of her brothers are actually from her mother's second marriage) in a blue collar Catholic family." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harrison, New Jersey.
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