[28] In 1693, Bergen County was divided into two townships: Hackensack Township in the north, and Bergen Township, encompassing the Bergen Neck peninsula, in the south. [167] River View Observer is a monthly newspaper that covers the Hudson Waterfront market. The Hudson County Schools of Technology constructed a new site for the school in Secaucus at a cost of $160 million, which opened for the 2018–19 school year. [125], In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 78.1% of the vote (15,600 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 21.1% (4,209 votes), and other candidates with 0.8% (164 votes), among the 20,134 ballots cast by the township's 32,627 registered voters (161 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 61.7%. [128] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 65.4% of the vote here (12,783 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 33.5% (6,541 votes) and other candidates with 0.4% (118 votes), among the 19,540 ballots cast by the town's 30,540 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 64.0. The border between the two townships is the current Hudson-Bergen county line.[29][30]. Hugo D. Cabrera (Commissioner of Parks and Public Property[95]), Panic Spreads Quickly Engineer Keeps On Until Emergency Cord Is Pulled After Second Attack. . In 2008 the New Jersey State Department of Tourism divided the state into six tourist regions, of which the Gateway Region and the Skylands Region are in North Jersey.[7]. Battle fields, camps, skirmish sites, and headquarters can be found near Morristown and north in the Preakness Valley. The racial makeup of the township was 67.36% White, 2.72% African American, 0.40% Native American, 6.47% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 15.53% from other races, and 7.47% from two or more races. Portions of the North Bergen were taken to form Hoboken Township (April 9, 1849, now the City of Hoboken), Hudson Town (April 12, 1852, later part of Hudson City), Hudson City (April 11, 1855, later merged with Jersey City), Guttenberg (formed within the township on March 9, 1859, and set off as an independent municipality on April 1, 1878), Weehawken (March 15, 1859), Union Township and West Hoboken Township (both created on February 28, 1861), Union Hill town (March 29, 1864) and Secaucus (March 12, 1900). Of all households, 28.4% were made up of individuals and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The former High Tech High School campus was acquired by the North Bergen district, which plans to construct a new junior high school for grades 7–9 on the site. North Bergen was the production base for the, This page was last edited on 6 January 2021, at 21:24. [108], In 2013, a report issued by the office of the New Jersey State Comptroller revealed that an attorney for North Bergen made $18,800 a year plus health benefits, but township officials had no idea what he was doing, or whether he was even at work. Soon after the opening of the Lincoln Tunnel Approach, the Susquehanna Transfer was opened in August 1939 to accommodate passengers who wished to transfer to buses through the tunnel. Robert Fulton School[142] (1,180; K-8), This may be due to the layout of the county in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with North Bergen having more land than its more densely populated neighbors, which had to bury their dead outside of town. The population density was 11,179.6 people per square mile (4,313.4/km2). [72], The 2010 United States Census counted 60,773 people, 22,062 households, and 14,539 families in the township. At the time of its construction in 1949, the 760-foot (230 m) WOR TV Tower, in the midst the residential Woodcliff Section,[49] was the tenth-tallest man-made structure in the world. [130][131] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 73.9% of the vote here (9,680 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 22.3% (2,922 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 1.5% (200 votes) and other candidates with 1.2% (151 votes), among the 13,106 ballots cast by the town's 28,555 registered voters, yielding a 45.9% turnout. It was reported that he was hired between the years of 1988 and 1990. "Drawing the line: Talking with the blogger behind "Where is the Line Between North & South Jersey? - accompanying blog, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League, Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Jersey&oldid=1001089503, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 January 2021, at 05:36. Generally in this approach, North Jersey is defined as anything north of Exit 10 on the New Jersey Turnpike. In 2001, area code 551 was created and is currently an overlay to 201. Low-lying areas along the west side are part of the New Jersey Meadowlands. During the mid nineteenth century, the engines and materials to tame a continent were made here. Bergen County is proposing to change the use of a 0.22-acre (+/-) section of Riverside County Park – South (part of Lot 17.01, Block 170, in the Township of Lyndhurst and Lot 3, Block 87 in the Borough of North Arlington, Bergen County, NJ) [3] At the time, the town included everything east of the Hackensack River and north of and including what is now Jersey City Heights.[35][36]. [83][84], Males had a median income of $35,626 versus $29,067 for females. [10][111][112] Prior to the 2010 Census, North Bergen had been split between the 9th Congressional District and the 13th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. Many residents are part of the wave of Spanish language speakers which had begun in the 1960s with Cuban émigrés, leading to the nickname, Havana on the Hudson. North Bergen is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 60,773, reflecting an increase of 2,681 (+4.6%) from the 58,092 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 9,678 (+20.0%) from the 48,414 counted in the 1990 Census. Another definition uses the 1958 telephone area code 201 (not the modern area), and all its additions. [45][46] Bergenline Avenue, a broad street which accommodated the North Hudson County Railway streetcars[47] to Nungesser's became (and remains) an important commercial and transit corridor. For every 100 females, there were 91.5 males. Phone: 201-336-7275 [91][92] The township is one of 30 municipalities (of the 565) statewide that use the form of government. Although Hudson was British, he worked for the Netherlands, so he claimed the land for the Dutch as part of the provincial colony of New Netherland,[8] with original settlements were centered on Bergen (today's Hudson County). The town was founded in 1843. The development of Hudson County Boulevard, which skirts around the west, north and east of North Bergen, was completed in the early 20th century. New Bridge Medical Center Foundation holds A Taste of Bergen in Rockleigh. Some people, especially residents of the northern tier of counties, use a narrower definition, counting only that area north of the mouth of the Raritan River. [3] Situated on the Hudson Palisades, it is one of the "hilliest" municipalities in the United States. Horace Mann School[145] (1,111; 1–8), [89] New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates five intermodal freight transport facilities within the township. 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