Saddle Brook, New Jersey Saddle Brook, New Jersey Map highlighting Saddle Brook's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Map highlighting Saddle Brook's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Saddle Brook, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Saddle Brook, New Jersey State New Jersey Saddle Brook is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Saddle River Township was created on March 20, 1716, consisting of all of the territory in Bergen County west of the Saddle River, making it one of the earliest municipalities in Bergen County, inside the region that had been known as New Barbadoes Township, which itself had been set off from Essex County and added to Bergen County in 1710.It was incorporated on February 21, 1798 by the Township Act of 1798 as one of the initial group of 104 townships incorporated in New Jersey. The historic name of the township was from the Saddle River, a tributary of the Passaic River, which in turn was titled for a stream and valley in Saddell, Argyll, Scotland.Saddle River Township derived its name from its resemblance to a saddle before its boundaries were changed.
After its formation in 1716, Saddle River Township was split up in 1772 by royal decree with the northernmost half becoming Franklin Township, titled after the last royal governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin.
Pompton Township was established in 1797 from parts of both Franklin and Saddle River Townships west of the Ramapo River, leaving sections of both townships disconnected to the west of Pompton Township.
In the initial wave of "Boroughitis" in which 26 new boroughs were created in 1894 alone and two more in 1895, Glen Rock (on September 14, 1894) and Lodi (December 22, 1894) split off from Saddle River Township, followed shortly after that by Wallington (January 2, 1895). Garfield (March 15, 1898), East Paterson (April 18, 1916; retitled to Elmwood Park effective January 1, 1973) and Fair Lawn (April 5, 1924) later split off. Saddle Brook adopted its current name on November 8, 1955, replacing Saddle River Township. Saddle Brook operates inside the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the Mayor-Council fitness of municipal government (Plan 2), implemented by direct petition as of January 1, 1991, after voters allowed a popular vote supporting the change in June 1990. The township is governed by a Mayor and a five-member Township Council.
Below is a list of former chairmen and mayors of Saddle River Township and Saddle Brook: Saddle Brook is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 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).
Gordon (D, Fair Lawn) and in the General Assembly by Tim Eustace (D, Maywood) and Joseph Lagana (D, Paramus). 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.
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 8,377 registered voters in Saddle Brook Township, of which 2,890 (34.5% vs.
Public school students from the township, 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 May 2010, the township had a total of 41.73 miles (67.16 km) of roadways, of which 31.45 miles (50.61 km) were maintained by the municipality, 6.91 miles (11.12 km) by Bergen County, 2.40 miles (3.86 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and 0.97 miles (1.56 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. NJ Transit's Plauderville rail station is near the township's southwest corner, just athwart the border in Garfield, south of the intersection of Plauderville Avenue and Midland Avenue. The station provides service on the Bergen County Line to Hoboken Terminal, with transfers available at Secaucus Junction to New York Penn Station, Newark Penn Station, and Newark Airport, and with transfers at Hoboken to PATH trains, Hudson Bergen Light Rail, and New York Waterway ferries. From 1999 to January 1, 2009, Saddle Brook had a public-access cable TV station with news bulletins (channel 77 on Cablevision and channels 38 and 39 on Verizon Fi - OS).
See also: Category:People from Saddle Brook, New Jersey.
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"Saddle river township, before the formation of Passaic county in 1847, comprised inside its limits what is now the township of Manchester.
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"In addition, Saddle Brook inhabitants will elect a new mayor and five-member council because of a change of government popular vote passed last June, and inhabitants of Plainfield are now waiting for their change-of-government popular vote to be officially placed on the ballot." 2016 Municipal Data Sheet, Township of Saddle Brook.
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"At our three campuses in West Orange, Saddle Brook and Chester, New Jersey, we treat individuals from throughout the state, athwart the nation and around the world." Official First Reformed Church of Saddle Brook Website.
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