Westwood, New Jersey Westwood, New Jersey Map highlighting Westwood's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Map highlighting Westwood's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Westwood, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Westwood, New Jersey Westwood (known as "The Hub of the Pascack Valley") is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's populace was 10,908, reflecting a diminish of 91 (-0.8%) from the 10,999 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 553 (+5.3%) from the 10,446 counted in the 1990 Census. Westwood is part of the New York urbane area. Many of its inhabitants regularly commute to New York City for work and leisure, many using enhance transportation. Westwood was officially incorporated as a borough on May 8, 1894, from portions of Washington Township, early amid the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. Isaac D.
Bogert served as the first mayor of the Borough. In April 1909, Westwood was enlarged through the annexation of the "Old Hook" section of the borough of Emerson, and on September 24, 1957, portions of the borough were exchanged with Emerson. On March 5, 1870, service began between Westwood and New York City (via Jersey City and a ferry ride).
By the 1880s, Westwood had four factories, a several distilleries, a new school, a laundry and grocery store, and a new Reformed Church.
De - Braun provided service to the homes that had been assembled along the borough's newly laid streets. By the time of the 1905 New Jersey Census, there were 234 dwellings housing a populace of 1,044. Westwood is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.
The Mayor serves a four-year term of office, and the Borough Council members serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The Borough form of government used by Westwood, the most common fitness used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie.
Westwood is positioned in the 5th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 39th state legislative district. New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District is represented by Josh Gottheimer (D, Wyckoff). 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.
Students in enhance school for grades kindergarten through twelfth undertaking attend the Westwood Regional School District, a elected county-wide school precinct serving both Washington Township and Westwood that is the county's only county-wide K-12 district. As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 2,717 students and 207.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.13:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are four elementary schools Berkeley Avenue Elementary School (279 students; grades K-5), Brookside Elementary School (380; K-5), Jessie F.
George Elementary School (288; K-5), Washington Elementary School (298; K-5) Westwood Regional Middle School (450; 6-7, opened in Fall 2010) and Westwood Regional High School (1,022; 8-12). As of the 2010-11 school year, Ketler Elementary School, which had served K-4, was shifted to turn into Westwood Regional Middle School for grades 6 and 7, while the other elementary schools would all serve K through 5, and the high school was shifted to grades 8-12 (from 7-12). 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.
County Route 503 and County Route 502 pass through Westwood.
Westwood is served by NJ Transit at the Westwood train station, positioned at Broadway and Westwood Avenue. The Pascack Valley Line runs north-south to Hoboken Terminal with connections via the Secaucus Junction transfer station to New York Penn Station and to other NJ Transit rail service.
See also: Category:People from Westwood, New Jersey.
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Westwood, New Jersey - 1894 establishments in New Jersey - Borough form of New Jersey government - Boroughs in Bergen County, New Jersey - Pascack Valley - Populated places established in 1894
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