Talk:Tenafly, New Jersey

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[edit] Notable?

Max Romarin (few episodes of "Ed") and Marlon Sherman are notable? Really? --Diogenes00 02:05, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

More notable than you are. --67.80.49.9 00:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Touche. But that's why I'm not listed either. I do apologize for being a bit snarky earlier.--Diogenes00 06:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Where is the Old Smith Village in Tenafly (from what street to what street) and what is the history of it?

[edit] Name origin & edits

I've kept in the name origin story, but with a cite needed. I heard "ten swamps" as a kid, but that doesn't seem be correct Dutch either. There was a book by Virginia Mosely years ago, as I recall, but I don't have a copy.

Also, on the bits I edited out: there's a list of all the neighboring towns at the bottom, so it doesn't seem necessary to have in the body. --Diogenes00 06:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I, as a kid, also heard "ten swamps." More precisely, I heard that the name was changed from "Tenaflee" (spelling?) to "Tenafly," because the former meant ten swamps, while the latter meant ten oaks and would attract more colonists.Birdman722 21:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

My family made their home in Tenafly starting in 1960, and this is the first I've heard of the "Tiene Vly" name theory. I was always told that the name origin was simply lost to history (like my wife's home town of Schroon Lake, New York, but that's another story). Are you guys sure enough about "Tiene Vly" to claim it's encyclopedic? - Rlw (Talk) 20:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

The controversy over the town name can only be verified through other published sources. As far as wikipedia is concerned the way it is written now is fine until someone else can provide additional sourced information --Mattarata 22:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)