Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Map highlighting Ridgefield Park's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Map highlighting Ridgefield Park's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the village's populace was 12,729, reflecting a diminish of 144 (-1.1%) from the 12,873 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 419 (+3.4%) from the 12,454 counted in the 1990 Census. Of 565 municipalities statewide, Ridgefield Park is one of only four with a village type of government in New Jersey, though it operates a Walsh Act (City Commission) form of government.
Of the four New Jersey villages, only Loch Arbour had retained the village form of government, while Ridgewood operates under the Council-Manager form and the Township of South Orange Village operates under a Special Charter form with many characteristics of village government. Ridgefield Park was formed as a village on June 15, 1892, inside Ridgefield Township, based on the results of a popular vote passed on June 6, 1892.
Overpeck Township was formed on March 23, 1897, to be coextensive with Ridgefield Park village, and was created inside Ridgefield Township for the purpose of administering a Board of Education.
The village's Fourth of July Parade, first established in 1894, is said to be the longest continuously jubilated such event in New Jersey and one of the earliest in the country. The village eliminated its July 4 fireworks in 2009, citing the $50,000 cost in the face of the difficult economy, but committed to retain its parade. On the east side of the Village (east of I-95), to the south of Bergen County's Overpeck Park, lies Overpeck Corporate Office Park (located on Challenger Road).
Ridgefield Park is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 36th state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Ridgefield Park had been in the 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).
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 four schools had an enrollment of 2,247 students and 174.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.85:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are three K-6 elementary schools Grant Elementary School (226 students), Lincoln Elementary School (375) and Roosevelt Elementary School (422) and Ridgefield Park High School for grades 7-12 (1,224). Students from Little Ferry attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953. 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 2014, the village had a total of 29.04 miles (46.74 km) of roadways, of which 21.64 miles (34.83 km) were maintained by the municipality, 4.38 miles (7.05 km) by Bergen County and 1.36 miles (2.19 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 1.66 miles (2.67 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. For much of the 20th century Ridgefield Park was served by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (NYSW) and the West Shore Railroad, a division of New York Central (NYCRR) at three passenger station in the village: Little Ferry Station, Ridgefield Park Station and Westview Station. See also: Category:People from Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.
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"But in Ridgefield Park, N.J., home of the state's earliest Fourth of July celebration, village leaders decided this year that because of the exceptionally bleak economic outlook, they could not afford to put on their traditional show, which costs about $50,000.
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"Ridgefield Park's five incumbents swept Tuesday's non-partisan Board of Commissioners election, defeating a full slate of political newcomers in the villages most competing election in two decades.
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"Lincoln Elementary School was recently titled a Blue Ribbon School by the New Jersey Department of Education, the most prestigious title in education, said Chris Onorato, superintendent of Ridgefield Park School District....
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"Mount Vernon Street train station in Ridgefield Park was a prominent place for commuters", Ridgefield Park Patriot, March 27, 2015.
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"His high school was Ridgefield Park in New Jersey, the improve where Milt was born.
"Nathaniel Milton Gaston was born on January 27, 1896, in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey....
The family lived in Overpeek, Bergen County, New Jersey.
Milt attended a number of schools in New York City and New Jersey, and instead of one year of high school at Ridgefield Park, but then left school and went to work." "Gordon was born June 2, 1913, in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, just a several miles from the home he has lived in for the past 60 years." History of Ridgefield Park High School, Ridgefield Park Jr.
"In 1962, with an F in trigonometry and a C average at Ridgefield Park High School in New Jersey, Gregory Olsen seemed destined for the final frontier of a steady job, evenings in front of the tv and, if lucky, vacations on the Jersey Shore." Municipal Incorporations of the State of New Jersey (according to Counties) prepared by the Division of Local Government, Department of the Treasury (New Jersey); December 1, 1958.
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Ridgefield Park Public Schools's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education Municipalities and communities of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States Allendale Alpine Bergenfield Bogota Carlstadt Cliffside Park Closter Cresskill Demarest Dumont East Rutherford Edgewater Elmwood Park Emerson Englewood Cliffs Fair Lawn Fairview Fort Lee Franklin Lakes Glen Rock Harrington Park Hasbrouck Heights Haworth Hillsdale Ho-Ho-Kus Leonia Little Ferry Lodi Maywood Midland Park Montvale Moonachie New Milford North Arlington Northvale Norwood Oakland Old Tappan Oradell Palisades Park Paramus Park Ridge Ramsey Ridgefield River Edge Rockleigh Rutherford Saddle River Tenafly Teterboro Upper Saddle River Waldwick Wallington Westwood Wood-Ridge Woodcliff Lake
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