Secaucus, New Jersey Secaucus, New Jersey Location of Secaucus inside Hudson County and the state of New Jersey Location of Secaucus inside Hudson County and the state of New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Secaucus, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Secaucus, New Jersey State New Jersey Secaucus (/ si k k s/ see-kaw-kus) is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
Located inside the New Jersey Meadowlands, it is the most suburban of the county's municipalities, though large parts of the town are dedicated to light manufacturing, retail, and transit uses, as well as protected areas. Sikakes, once an island, was part of the territory purchased by Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant in 1658. The territory was part of what is considered to be the earliest municipality in the state of New Jersey which was first chartered in 1660 as Bergen in the province of New Netherland and, in 1683, became Bergen Township.
Secaucus was originally formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 12, 1900, from portions of North Bergen. On June 7, 1917, Secaucus was incorporated as a town, replacing Secaucus borough, based on the results of a popular vote held on June 5, 1917. President. The town's pig farms, rendering plants, and junk yards gave the town a reputation for being one of the most odorous in the New York urbane area. In the 1950s the pig farms began to dwindle, partially due to assembly on the New Jersey Turnpike, which would carry tourists who would not appreciate the odor. In 1963, debris from the demolition of Pennsylvania Station was dumped in the Secaucus Meadowlands.
In a non-binding popular vote in 1969, 90% of voters in Secaucus chose to leave Hudson County and join Bergen County, as that county was more similar in character and had lower taxes.
New Jersey Monthly periodical ranked Secaucus as its 182nd best place to live in its 2010 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey, after ranking the borough 11th in its 2008 rankings. At the southern end of Secaucus is Snake Hill (officially known as Laurel Hill), an igneous modern diabase intrusion jutting up some 150 feet (46 m) from the Meadowlands below, near the New Jersey Turnpike. North End north of New Jersey Route 3, home Secaucus High School, Schmiddt's Woods, and Mill Creek Marsh As its name suggests, the North End in Secaucus, New Jersey, is the section of town north of New Jersey Route 3 and the Secaucus Plaza Central Business District, to which it is connected by Paterson Plank Road.
Mill Creek Marsh is park administered by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and will eventually connect to the Secaucus Greenway.
It southern counterpart is known as Riverbend. The Mill Creek Mall, also north of Route 3, but on the other side of Mill Creek close to New Jersey Turnpike Eastern Spur is part of Harmon Meadow Harmon Cove is the section of Secaucus, New Jersey along the Hackensack River, south of New Jersey Route 3.
The name is portmanteau taken from Hartz Mountain, a corporation that owns much territory in the New Jersey Meadowlands, which originally advanced the region as a gated improve in the 1970s with townhouses and highrise residentiary buildings. Part of the Hackensack River - Walk Secaucus Greenway passes through the neighborhood, which is north of Anderson Marsh and Snake Hill, home to Hudson County's Laurel Hill Park.
Secaucus Plaza is the "downtown" region of Secaucus, just off of Route 3.
Harmon Meadow Plaza is a large hotel, restaurant and shopping complex that features gyms, a pool hall, the Meadowlands Convention Center, a 14-screen Showplace Theatres and a Wal-Mart and Sam's Club positioned east of the New Jersey Turnpike, near Route 3 and Interchange 16 - E.
Best Buy, Raymour & Flanigan, Ashley Furniture, Home Depot and Daffy's are positioned on Paterson Plank Road off Interchange 16 - E. National Retail Systems is another large employer. Secaucus is home to a several corporate headquarters, including The Children's Place, Fiber - Media and Hartz Mountain Industries. Goya Foods previously had its command posts there. According to a 2016 Fundera study, Secaucus ranked as the best town/city in New Jersey for entrepreneurs. The Manischewitz Company announced that it would relocate its administrative offices to Newark after being positioned in Secaucus for seven years. Panasonic's North American headquarters, with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of offices and 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of warehouse space, had been positioned in Secaucus since 1973. After considering new locations in New York, California and Georgia, the business announced it would relocate to Newark and would receive an Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit of $102 million from the State of New Jersey for the relocation 8 miles (13 km) from its Secaucus location. The business also cited the surroundingal benefits possible by reducing the need of 1,000 employees to drive to work. Sports companies headquartered in Secaucus include Red Bull New York, Major League Baseball's MLB Network, and NBA Entertainment/NBA TV (whose studios are also the site of the NBA Draft Lottery). It is also home to men's soccer team Secaucus FC, which is part of the Garden State Soccer League, and was established in 2003 by Nick Farinola. Secaucus held a pre-Super Bowl "Winter Blast" party amid the first weekend of February 2014 to jubilate Super Bowl XLVIII being played in New Jersey.
Secaucus is governed under the Town form of New Jersey municipal government.
Secaucus is served around the clock by five volunteer fire companies that make up the Secaucus Fire Department, with a combined fire apparatus fleet of five Engines, two Trucks, one Rescue, one Squad (utility unit) and one boat, operating out of five fire stations positioned throughout the town. Secaucus is positioned in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 32nd 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).
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). Freeholder District 8, comprising North Bergen, the North End of Secaucus and northernmost tip of Jersey City near Transfer Station. is represented by Thomas Liggio. 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 Hudson County Executive, propel at-large, is Thomas A.
According to the The Hudson Reporter, Secaucus is "arguably Hudson County's most conservative town." As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 10,298 registered voters in Secaucus, of which 5,886 (57.2%) were registered as Democrats, 876 (8.5%) were registered as Republicans and 3,531 (34.3%) were registered as Unaffiliated.
As of the 2011 12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 2,156 students and 148.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 14.55:1. The schools in the precinct (with 2011 12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Clarendon Elementary School (grades K-6; 610 students), Huber Street Elementary School (pre - K-6; 654), Secaucus Middle School (7 8; 309) and Secaucus High School (9 12; 583). The athletic squads of Secaucus High School are nicknamed the "Patriots." The town is divided into four by the intersecting roads of Route 3, which runs east and west, and the easterly spur of the New Jersey Turnpike (part of Interstate 95), which runs north-south, with an interchange (16 - E/17) at NJ Route 3 and interchange 15 - X, near the Secaucus Junction station, which opened in late 2005. As of May 2010, the town had a total of 47.16 miles (75.90 km) of roadways, of which 38.08 miles (61.28 km) were maintained by the municipality, 2.56 miles (4.12 km) by Hudson County and 1.75 miles (2.82 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 4.77 miles (7.68 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction train station. As the station is in the south end of Secaucus, access from the rest of Secaucus is limited via County Avenue, Meadowlands Parkway or NJ Turnpike Interchange 15 - X.
Numerous NJ Transit buses serve Secaucus, including the 124, 129, 190 and 320 buses to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, the 78 bus to Newark, the 2 and 85 routes to Jersey City and small-town service provided on the 772 route. There is a bus park-and-ride at the northeast corner of Secaucus. In the first half of the 20th century the Jersey City, Hoboken and Rutherford Electric Railway directed a street car line through the then chief company precinct of Secaucus, on Paterson Plank Road from Jersey City and athwart the Hackensack River to East Rutherford.
Secaucus is positioned inside the New York media market, with most of its daily papers available for sale or bringy.
Local, county and county-wide news is veiled by The Jersey Journal, the daily journal that relocated its offices to Secaucus in 2014 from Jersey City's Journal Square, an region of the town/city that was titled for the journal that directed there for 90 years. The Secaucus Reporter is part of the The Hudson Reporter group of small-town weeklies.
Locally, the town is served by the Secaucus Home News, a weekly journal established in 1910. Other weeklies, the River View Observer and El Especialito, also cover small-town news.
WWOR-TV, channel 9, is a tv station licensed to Secaucus, serving the New York metro region tv market as the flagship station of the My - Network - TV programming service.
See also: Category:People from Secaucus, New Jersey.
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"An upcoming documentary about the late Morton Downey Jr., the acerbic, chain-smoking talk show host, promises a meditation on the progenitor of trash TV, whose eponymous 1980s program was filmed in Secaucus, New Jersey and whose audience was filled with current and future probationers." "The tax credit had been instrumental in attracting a several TV productions to Hudson County, including the NBC hospital drama Mercy, which was shot in Secaucus, and NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which filmed throughout the county but was primarily shot in a studio in North Bergen." "Secaucus' Naked Cowboy: Bring back House Committee on Un-American Activities", The Jersey Journal, November 11, 2010.
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"Although she was accepted into New York's famed Laguardia High School to study dance, she attended enhance high school in Secaucus, N.J., instead." She interval up in Secaucus and attended Hudson County's High Tech High School because they have a 'good musical theater program,' she said, 'and it was cool that you could have a primary in high school.'" "Vincent Prieto, New Jersey's new Assembly Speaker, is second Cuban-American in post", The Jersey Journal.
"As expected, the incoming Assembly Democratic majority yesterday morning chose Vincent Prieto of Secaucus to serve as the new Assembly Speaker." "Actor Dan Resin, who died Friday at 79, was a former longtime Secaucus resident", The Jersey Journal, August 3, 2010.
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