Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey Map highlighting Woodcliff Lake's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Map highlighting Woodcliff Lake's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey Woodcliff Lake is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 Census, the borough's populace was 5,730, reflecting a diminish of 15 (-0.3%) from the 5,745 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 442 (+8.3%) from the 5,303 counted in the 1990 Census. Most of the borough mandates a minimum lot size of 22,500 square feet (2,090 m2) for single-family homes, with portions on the borough's east zoned for 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) and portions of the borough's northwest and southwest zoned for 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) lots. The borough was originally incorporated as the Borough of Woodcliff, on August 31, 1894, from parts of Orvil Township and Washington Township, based on the results of a popular vote held three days earlier. The borough was formed amid the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The borough derives its name from the characteristics of its geography. On March 1, 1910, after the creation of the reservoir, the name of the borough was changed to Woodcliff Lake, to match the name of the postal service. Prior to the creation of ZIP codes as a way to uniquely identify addresses, United States Postal Service policy was that two postal services in a state could not have the same name, and there was already a "Woodcliff" in Hudson County. On January 1, 1956, and again on July 1, 1958, Woodcliff Lake exchanged sections of territory with Park Ridge.
The borough is bordered by Montvale, Park Ridge, River Vale, Hillsdale, Saddle River, and small portions of Upper Saddle River. Woodcliff Lake is positioned approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Manhattan.
Wood Dale County Park is a Bergen County park covering 118 acres (48 ha) positioned on Prospect Avenue.
Woodcliff Lake is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.
The Borough Council consists of six members propel to serve three-year terms 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 Woodcliff Lake, 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.
Woodcliff Lake 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.
Woodcliff Lake's police department, positioned next to borough hall and the fire department, was established in 1954. As of the 2014-15 school year, the precinct and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,126 students and 74.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 15.2:1. The schools in the precinct (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Dorchester Elementary School with 496 students in grades Pre-K through 5 and Woodcliff Middle School which had 269 students in grades 6-8. For ninth through twelfth grades, Woodcliff Lake and Montvale enhance school students attend Pascack Hills High School.
The school is part of the Pascack Valley Regional High School District, which serves students from Hillsdale and River Vale at Pascack Valley High School. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 845 students and 68.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.3:1. The Mayor and Council of Woodcliff Lake have passed resolutions supporting the withdrawal of the borough from the Pascack Valley Regional High School District, noting that the improve contributes 28% of the district's spending, while accounting for 19% of the students attending the district's schools.
Both Montvale and Woodcliff Lake, with substantial commercial property tax ratables, have a cost per student substantially higher than that paid by the other two communities, with Woodcliff Lake's cost of $28,521 nearly double the $14,840 paid by Hillsdale (on a per student basis). 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 May 2010, the borough had a total of 45.94 miles (73.93 km) of roadways, of which 34.27 miles (55.15 km) were maintained by the municipality, 9.47 miles (15.24 km) by Bergen County and 2.20 miles (3.54 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The Garden State Parkway and County Route 503 pass through Woodcliff Lake.
Woodcliff Lake is served by NJ Transit at the Woodcliff Lake train station, positioned at Broadway and Woodcliff Avenues. The station offers service on the Pascack Valley Line, which runs north-south to Hoboken Terminal with connections via the Secaucus Junction transfer station to New Jersey Transit one-stop service to New York Penn Station and to other NJ Transit rail service.
Connections are available at the Hoboken Terminal to other New Jersey Transit rail lines, the PATH train at the Hoboken PATH station, New York Waterways ferry service to the World Financial Center and other destinations and Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service. See also: Category:People from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
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"Before 1910, the borough was simply known as Woodcliff, but the moniker was changed a century ago to reflect the shining new lake in the center of the non-urban hamlet, and to match the town's postal service, whose name had been changed shortly before to distinguish it from a mail center in the Hudson County town of Woodcliff.
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Woodcliff Lake, 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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