Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Cliffside Park is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 23,594.[5]
Cliffside Park was formed based on the results of a referendum held on January 15, 1895, from portions of Ridgefield Township at the start of the second year of the Boroughitis phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County.[11][12]
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg currently resides in the borough. Cliffside Park was also home to the former Palisades Amusement Park.
Geography
Cliffside Park is located at (40.822075, -73.987856).[13] According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.96 square miles (2.5 km2), all land, located atop the Hudson Palisades.[3] Anderson Avenue and Palisade Avenue are the town's major north south thoroughfares, the latter offering views of the Hudson River and New York City skyline. Grantwood is a name used for an a part of town, taken from Grant's Tomb, located on the opposite shore of the river.[14][15] Gorge Road runs along the face of the cliff to the Edgewater waterfront.
Demographics
Historical populations |
Census |
Pop. |
|
%± |
1900 |
968 |
|
—
|
1910 |
3,394 |
|
250.6% |
1920 |
5,709 |
|
68.2% |
1930 |
15,267 |
|
167.4% |
1940 |
16,892 |
|
10.6% |
1950 |
17,116 |
|
1.3% |
1960 |
17,642 |
|
3.1% |
1970 |
18,891 |
|
7.1% |
1980 |
21,464 |
|
13.6% |
1990 |
20,393 |
|
−5.0% |
2000 |
23,007 |
|
12.8% |
2010 |
23,594 |
|
2.6% |
Population sources:1900-1930[16]
1900-1990[17][18] 2000[19] 2010[6][20] |
The 2010 United States Census reported that there were 23,594 people, 9,948 households and 6,179 families residing in the borough. The racial makeup of Cliffside Park was 70.1% (16,542) White, 3.3% (776) African American, 0.3% (75) Native American, 13.8% (3,252) Asian, 0.0% (11) Pacific Islander, 8.7% (2,042) from other races, and 3.8% (897) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 28.4% (6,704).[5][20]
As of the census[8] of 2000, there were 23,007 people, 10,027 households, and 6,036 families residing in the borough. The population density was 23,847.7 people per square mile (9,253.2/km2). There were 10,375 housing units at an average density of 10,754.1 per square mile (4,172.7/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 77.85% White, 1.83% African American, 0.25% Native American, 12.05% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 4.97% from other races, and 3.02% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18.16% of the population.[19]
As of the 2000 census, 3.6% of Cliffside Park's residents identified themselves as being of Armenian American ancestry. This was the highest percentage in New Jersey, and the seventh-highest percentage of Armenian American people in any place in the United States with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.[21]
There were 10,027 households out of which 21.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.8% were non-families. 33.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.95.[19]
In the borough the population was spread out with 16.9% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.6 males.[19]
The median income for a household in the borough was $46,288, and the median income for a family was $54,915. Males had a median income of $40,114 versus $36,100 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $28,516. About 8.5% of families and 10.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.1% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.[19]
Government
Local government
Cliffside Park is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government. The government consists of a Mayor and a Borough Council with all positions elected at large. A Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The Borough Council consists of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year.[22]
As of 2011[update], the Mayor of Cliffside Park is Gerald A. Calabrese (D, term ends December 31, 2011). Calabrese has been mayor of Cliffside Park since 1965. Members of the Borough Council are Larry Bongard (D, 2011), Thomas Calabrese (D, 2013), Kenneth Corcoran (D, 2013), Bernard J. Fontana (D, 2012), Dana Martinotti (D, 2011) and Donna M. Spoto (D, 2012).[23][24]
Federal, state, and county representation
Cliffside Park is in the 9th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 38th state legislative district.[25] The township was relocated to the 36th state legislative district by the New Jersey Apportionment Commission based on the results of the 2010 Census.[6] The new district is in effect for the June 2011 primary and the November 2011 general election, with the state senator and assembly members elected taking office in the new district as of January 2012.[25]
New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District is represented by Steve Rothman (D, Fair Lawn). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).
38th District of the New Jersey Legislature, which is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Robert M. Gordon (D, Fair Lawn) and in the New Jersey General Assembly by Joan Voss (D, Fort Lee) and Connie Wagner (D, Paramus).[26] The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham).[27] The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach).[28]
Bergen County's County Executive is Kathleen Donovan (R, Rutherford; term ends December 31, 2014).[29] The Board of Chosen Freeholders is the county's legislative body and its seven members are elected at-large on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election each year.[30] As of 2011, Bergen County's Freeholders are Chairman John Driscoll, Jr. (R, 2012; Paramus),[31] Vice-Chairwoman Maura DeNicola (R, 2013; Franklin Lakes),[32] Chair Pro Tempore John D. Mitchell (R, 2013; Cliffside Park)[33] John A. Felice (R, 2013; River Edge),[34] David L. Ganz (D, 2011; Fair Lawn),[35] Robert G. Hermansen (R, 2012; Mahwah)[36] and Bernadette P. McPherson (D, 2011; Rutherford).[37][38] Other countywide constitutional officials are Sheriff Michael Saudino (R), Surrogate Michael R. Dressler (D, Cresskill) and County Clerk Elizabeth Randall (R, Westwood).[39]
Politics
As of Election Day 2008, there were 10,004 registered voters. Of registered voters, 4,575 (45.7% of all registered voters) were registered as Democrats, 1,088 (10.9%) were registered as Republicans and 4,338 (43.4%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were three voters registered to other parties.[40]
Local elections
In the 2010 General Election, Democratic incumbents Thomas Calabrese (3,167 votes) and Kenneth Corcoran (3,111 votes) were re-elected to three-year terms of office after being challenged by Republican Party candidates Eric Soto (1,835 votes) and Michelle Talamo (1,836 votes).[41]
In the 2009 General Election, Democratic incumbents Bernard J. Fontana (2,943 votes) and Donna M. Spoto (2,983 votes) where re-elected over Republican Party candidates John Mitchell] (2,040 votes) and Eric Soto (2,004 votes).[42]
National elections
In recent years, Cliffside Park has leaned strongly toward the Democratic Party. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 62.5% of the vote here, defeating Republican John McCain, who received 36.1% of the vote, with 81.3% of registered voters participating.[40] In the 2004 election, Democrat John Kerry received 60% of the vote here, defeating Republican George W. Bush, who received around 39%.[43]
Education
The Cliffside Park School District serves public school students in Kindergarten through Twelfth grade. Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[44]) are the Early Learning Center with 346 students in prekindergarten and kindergarten, Number 3 School with 246 students in grades K-6, Number 4 School with 321 students in grades K-6, Number 5 School with 156 students in grades K-6, Number 6 School with 624 students in grades K-8 and Cliffside Park High School with 1,031 students in grades 9-12. Students from Fairview, New Jersey attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Fairview Public Schools.[45]
Religion
As of 2011[update], slightly over 75% of the citizens of Cliffside Park view themselves as being affiliated with a formal religious body. A majority of the borough is Roman Catholic (52.60%), many of whom attend the Roman Catholic Church of the Epiphany on Knox Avenue. 8.12% Jewish; 1.21% Lutheran; 1.20% Episcopalian; 0.84% Methodist; 0.88% Muslim; 0.62% Baptist; 0.46% Pentecostal; and 0.02% Eastern Orthodox Christian.[46]
Transportation
New Jersey Transit bus lines 156, 159 and 181 offer service to the Port Authority Bus Terminals in Manhattan; the 22 route serves Jersey City; and the 751, and 755 offer local service.[47]
Palisade Avenue and Anderson Avenue are the main north-south roads of Cliffside Park.
Popular culture
Scenes from Cop Land, directed by James Mangold and starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta were filmed in Cliffside Park.[48]
Scenes from the 1988 film Big, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Penny Marshall, were filmed in Cliffside Park.[49][50]
Notable residents
Notable current and former residents of Cliffside Park include:
- Oksana Baiul (born 1977), figure skater.[51]
- Rene Paul Chambellan (1893–1955), architectural sculptor.[52]
- Ann Corio (1909–99), burlesque stripper.[53]
- Joseph Dunninger (1892–1975), mentalist.[54][55][56]
- Bruce Elia (born 1953), former NFL football player / local businessman.[57]
- Ruth Brewer Eisenberg (1902–96), "Ivory" of Ebony and Ivory.[58]
- Fred C. Galda (c. 1918-97), Superior Court judge and mayor of Paramus, New Jersey.[59]
- Gloria Gaynor (born 1949), singer.[60]
- Ray Gillen (1959–93), former member of Black Sabbath.[61]
- Heidi Groskreutz, dancer and finalist on the second season of So You Think You Can Dance.[62]
- Frank Lautenberg (born 1924), United States Senator.[63][64]
- Gus Lesnevich (1915–64), boxer.[65][66]
- John Marin (1870–1953), artist known for his watercolors.[67]
- Otto Messmer (1892–1983), animator.[55]
- Randy Neumann (born 1948), boxing referee and former professional boxer.[66]
- Charles Henry Niehaus (1855–1935), sculptor.[68]
- Archibald Olpp (1882-1949), member of the United States House of Representatives.[69]
- Daphne Oz (born 1986), author and talk show host.[70]
- Mehmet Oz (born 1960), cardiothoracic surgeon, talk show host and author.[71]
- Joe Pantoliano (born 1951), actor.[72]
- Remy Ma (born 1981), Grammy Award-winning rapper.[73]
- Maysoon Zayid (born 1974), "actress, comedian and activist".[74][75]
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- "History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1630-1923;" by "Westervelt, Frances A. (Frances Augusta), 1858-1942."
- "Municipal Incorporations of the State of New Jersey (according to Counties)" prepared by the Division of Local Government, Department of the Treasury (New Jersey); December 1, 1958.
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- ^ Ross, Michale E. "State Seeks Bigger Role In Making Of Movies", The New York Times, August 7, 1998. Accessed April 11, 2008. "Big, one of this summer's box-office comedy successes, starring Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins. Parts of the 20th Century-Fox film were shot in Cliffside Park and Fort Lee."
- ^ Lipson, Karin. "For Oksana Baiul, a Role Close to Life", The New York Times, May 13, 2007. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Ms. Baiul, now 29 and living in Cliffside Park, N.J., was “competing” only in her starring role as Maya Propova, one of six fictional skaters jockeying for medals in “Cold as Ice,” a new musical about the sacrifices and rivalries of the sport."
- ^ Staff. "R. P. CHAMBELLAN, LONG A SCULPTOR; Architectural Artist Is Dead - Conceived Decorations for Many Famed Structures", The New York Times, November 30, 1955. Accessed March 22, 2011. "CLIFFSIDE PARK, N. J.... He resided here at 537 St. Paul's Avenue."
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Ann Corio, a Burlesque Queen on Broadway, Is Dead", The New York Times, March 9, 1999. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Ann Corio, the auburn-haired, green-eyed queen of burlesque whose long-running show, This Was Burlesque, kept alive the art of strippers and the comedy of baggy-pants clowns in the age of the X-rated film, died on March 1 at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. Ms. Corio, a resident of Cliffside Park, N.J., kept her age a closely guarded secret, but was believed to be in her 80's."
- ^ Staff. "Milestones, Mar. 24, 1975", Time (magazine), March 24, 1975, accessed March 22, 2011. "Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J."
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- ^ Staff. "DUNNINGER DIES; MAGICIAN WAS 82; Billed Himself as 'Master Mind of Mental Mystery'", The New York Times, March 10, 1975. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Joseph Dunninger, who mystified millions as a magician and mind-reader for more than half a century, died yesterday of Parkinson's disease at his home in Cliffside Park, N.J."
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- ^ Huff, Richard. "BROOKLYN HOOFER IS EAGER FOR NEXT 'DANCE' STEP", Daily News (New York), June 21, 2006. Accessed March 22, 2011. "As it turns out, Rankine has been paired with Heidi Groskreutz, 24, of Cliffside Park, N.J., in the early rounds of the competition. She's a ballroom specialist, while he's a contemporary dancer."
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- ^ via Associated Press. "Aide: Sen. Lautenberg doing OK after fall", USA Today, February 16, 2010. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Long-serving U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg fell at his home Monday night and was taken to a hospital as a precaution, an aide said. The 86-year-old Democrat, the first New Jersey senator to be elected to five terms, was conscious when he was taken from his Cliffside Park home to the hospital, spokesman Caley Gray said."
- ^ via Associated Press. "Billy Conn Punches Out Decision Over Lesnevich: Pittsburgh Fighter Successfully Defends Light-heavyweight Title Through Superior Boxing Ability Before Small Crowd at Detroit", Hartford Courant, June 6, 1940. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Billy Conn, the smiling, dancing Irishman from Pittsburgh, successfully defended his world's light heavyweight boxing championship tonight by beating out a close 15-round decision over Gus Lesnevich, plodding challenger from Cliffside Park..."
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- ^ Staff. "JOHN MARIN IS DEAD; WATER-COLORIST, 80; Artist Considered by Many as 'America's No. 1 Master' Succumbs in Maine Home", The New York Times, October 2, 1953. Accessed March 22, 2011. "A native of Rutherford, N. J., he maintained a winter home in Cliffside Park, N. J."
- ^ Staff. "CHARLES H. NIEHAUS, NOTED SCULPTOR, DIES; Designed the Francis Scott Key Memorial in Baltimore and Many Washington Statues.", The New York Times, June 20, 1935. Accessed March 22, 2011. "CLIFFSIDE PARK, N. J. - Charles Henry Niehaus, noted sculptor of the Francis Scott Key Memorial in Baltimore and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial at Newark, N. J., died 8 o'clock tonight at his home, 40 Grant Avenue. He was 80 years old."
- ^ Staff. "Dr. Archibald E. Olpp", The New York Times, July 27, 1949. Accessed September 21, 2011.
- ^ Singer, Natasha. "15 Pounds: Part of Freshman Meal Plan?", The New York Times, August 31, 2006. Accessed May 30, 2011. "And that is where Daphne Oz, a junior at Princeton from Cliffside Park, N.J., comes in.... And at the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, N.J., she wrote a high school research paper on teenage nutrition and lobbied for healthier cafeteria food, she said."
- ^ Bruni, Frank. "Dr. Does-It-All", The New York Times, April 16, 2010. Accessed March 22, 2011. "That is his base line, to which he adds more yoga, short runs and basketball games with friends near his home in Cliffside Park, N.J., when he can."
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- ^ Buckley, Cara. "After Shooting in Manhattan, a Rapper Is Arrested", The New York Times, July 15, 2007. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Ms. Smith, who lives in Cliffside Park, N.J., grew up in the Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx and used to perform as Remy Martin."
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