Lyndhurst, New Jersey Lyndhurst, New Jersey Lyndhurst portion of New Jersey Meadowlands.
Lyndhurst portion of New Jersey Meadowlands.
Map highlighting Lyndhurst's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Map highlighting Lyndhurst's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Lyndhurst, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Lyndhurst, New Jersey State New Jersey Lyndhurst is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
On May 15, 1917, the region was reincorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature as the Township of Lyndhurst, based on the results of a popular vote held one week earlier. The township is titled for Lord Lyndhurst. After a spill of flammable liquid started a fire in a building where shells were cleaned, about 500,000, three-inch (76 mm) explosive shells were discharged in about four hours, destroying the entire facility. It was said to have been a spectacle more magnificent than the explosion at Black Tom in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The township borders North Arlington and Rutherford in Bergen County; Belleville and Nutley in Essex County; Kearny and Secaucus in Hudson County; and Clifton in Passaic County. As of the 2000 Census, 33.8% of township inhabitants were of Italian ancestry, the 19th-highest percentage of any municipality in the United States, and eighth-highest in New Jersey, among all places with more than 1,000 inhabitants identifying their ancestry. Because portions of the township are positioned in the New Jersey Meadowlands, a number of airways broadcasts have their transmitters and towers positioned in Lyndhurst.
American Legion, Cricket, Stellatos, Savinos, I.A.C.L, Bergen County Glass, Carucci, and Century 21 make up Lyndhurst Little League as of 2017. Riverside County Park is a Bergen County park covering 85 acres (34 ha) positioned on Riverside Avenue between Lyndhurst and North Arlington.
The Township of Lyndhurst has been governed under the Walsh Act form of New Jersey municipal government since 1913. All committee members are propel concurrently at-large on a non-partisan basis to four-year terms of office as part of the May municipal election, with the five members selecting a mayor from amongst its members at a reorganization meeting held after each election. Lyndhurst is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 36th 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).
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.
As of the 2011 12 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 2,368 students and 163.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 14.53:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011 12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are six elementary schools Columbus School (grades K-3; 148 students), Franklin School (K-3; 251), Jefferson School (4-8; 270), Lincoln School (4-8; 268), Roosevelt School (4-8; 481) and Washington School (K-3; 259) along with Lyndhurst High School (9-12; 651). 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.
The Lyndhurst Police Department (LPD) provides emergency and protective services to the township of Lyndhurst, and is led by Chief James B.
As of May 2010, the township had a total of 45.95 miles (73.95 km) of roadways, of which 37.81 miles (60.85 km) were maintained by the municipality, 4.93 miles (7.93 km) by Bergen County and 2.15 miles (3.46 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 1.06 miles (1.71 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The Avondale-De - Jessa Bridge, which joins Lyndhurst and Nutley over the Passaic River with one lane in each direction, carries more than 26,000 vehicles a day, and is among 22 bridges in Bergen County that have been classified as "structurally deficient". NJ Transit has two train stations in Lyndhurst, positioned at Lyndhurst Station and Kingsland Station. Trains at both stations operate on the Main Line to Hoboken Terminal, with transfers available at Secaucus Junction to New York Penn Station, Newark Penn Station, and Newark Airport, with transfers at Hoboken to PATH trains, Hudson Bergen Light Rail, and New York Waterway ferries. The trains travel over the Lyndhurst Draw, a barns bridge crossing the Passaic River between Clifton and Lyndhurst that was constructed in 1901 and is owned and directed by NJ Transit Rail Operations. New Jersey Transit offers buses serving Newark on the 76 route and to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 191, 192, 193 and 195 routes. Lyndhurst is also served by De - Camp Bus Lines routes 32, 44 and 99. See also: Category:People from Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
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"Jimmy Smagula will host and perform in a benefit concert for Lyndhurst High School featuring various Broadway performers May 19 at 7 PM.", Playbill.
"My family moved to Lyndhurst, NJ at age 12, where I attended Sacred Heart and Lyndhurst High School." One of New Jersey's dominant alternative-rock acts of its era, the band -- formed in Lyndhurst in 1983 -- had a richly textured, R.E.M.-like sound and a handsome, deep-voiced frontman who inspired comparisons to Jim Morrison." Bergen County, New Jersey, National Register of Historic Places.
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Lyndhurst, New Jersey - 1917 establishments in New Jersey - New Jersey Meadowlands District - Populated places established in 1917 - Townships in Bergen County, New Jersey - Walsh Act
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