Rutherford Park: A Novel

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Shenker, Israel. "Look, Y'Tink Noo Yawkiz Like ta Tawk Like Dis? Nah", The New York Times, May 10, 1971. Accessed May 10, 2011. "Professor Labov was born in Rutherford, N.J., just outside the New York City speech area, and his wife was born in Fort Lee, N.J., just inside that area."

Directory of Representatives: New Jersey, United States House of Representatives. Accessed January 3, 2019. Pizza Shed - located at Rufford Mill, serving freshly made Barrel & Stone pizzas. Open weekends from 2nd April, 11am to 3pm. Speaking after the cabinet meeting, Wardle FC Chairman Rik Fielding said: “In regard to the future development of our club, there is no need for the council to drag their heels now and all parties need to push on and fulfil the ideas and promises that have been made for over five years. We have great support, not just within our club but from the community and our local councillors that have spent hours doing what is right for our local community.” At the time, much of the property in Rutherford was farmland owned by the estate of John Rutherfurd, a former New Jersey legislator and U.S. Senator, whose homestead was along the Passaic River, near present-day Rutherford Avenue. [33] Van Winkle opened a real estate office at Depot Square (now Station Square) to sell the land of the Rutherfurd Park Association, and began to lay out the area's street grid. The main roads were Orient Way, a wide boulevard heading south-southwest from Station Square, and Park Avenue, which headed west-southwest from Station Square to bring traffic to the new Valley Brook Race Course in what is now Lyndhurst.O'Keefe, Daniel. "Fall colors may not be so bright", South Bergenite, October 7, 2010. Accessed February 2, 2012. "True to its name, the Borough of Trees is one of the better places in the South Bergen area to observe the change of seasons. For most people the two seasons that rival for favorite are autumn and spring: spring has all the pinks, whites and startling greens that appear after long months of cold, dead winter, but autumn has the brilliant oranges, reds and yellows of trees as they slowly start to shed their leaves in preparation for the lean months ahead.... New Jersey certified tree expert Bill Comery, who works part-time for Rutherford, said that means trouble for trees not just in the near future but for years to come." Table 6: New Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1940 - 2000, Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network, August 2001. Accessed May 1, 2023.

Manuscript Group 398, Rutherfurd Family, New Jersey Historical Society. Accessed July 29, 2007. "John Rutherfurd (1760-1840)... in 1808, he moved to Bergen County, New Jersey, near present-day Rutherford." I found myself addicted to Rutherford Park, much as I was to Downton Abbey. I reveled in delicious detail about life in a great country estate, all the while waiting to learn: would Octavia’s family survive or would they be torn apart by the forces converging on them: personal failings, society’s excesses, and Europe’s Great War?”—Margaret Wurtele, author of The Golden Hour Brant Alyea (born 1940), baseball player who hit a home run on the first pitch he saw in the majors. [216] and grew up in Rutherford [217] As of 2023 [update], the county executive is James J. Tedesco III ( D, Paramus), whose four-year term of office ends December 31, 2026. [97] Bergen County's Commissioners areThe grassroots club has been fighting to improve the training grounds at Rutherford Park for a number of years, but is still yet to benefit from a pitch extension and permanent clubhouse. Rutherford Borough Archived February 10, 2009, at the Library of Congress Web Archives. Accessed November 13, 2008.

William Carlos Williams, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet who died in 1963, was born in Rutherford in 1883. For most of his adult life, he maintained a physician's office in the house in which he lived, at 9 Ridge Road, at the corner of Park Avenue, even as he continued his artistic endeavors. [58] Louis Frey Jr. (1934–2019), Republican politician and former member of the US House of Representatives from Florida [179] Construction is now complete on the new playground and other amenities at Verdell Burdine Rutherford Park. About Verdell Burdine Rutherford In November 2019, the borough council selected Raymond Guzman from a list of three candidates nominated by the Democratic municipal committee to complete the term expiring in December 2020 that had been held by Frank Nunziato until he resigned from his council seat to take office as mayor. [86] Federal, state and county representation [ edit ] Brian Kim Stefans, Poetry Foundation. Accessed November 19, 2017. "Brian Kim Stefans was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1969. He earned a BA from Bard College and attended the CUNY Graduate School for two years before earning an MFA in electronic literature from Brown University."The Rutherford Community Band was founded in 1941 and performs free concerts at venues throughout the borough, including the Hutzel Memorial Band Shell in Lincoln Park. [63] [64] Annual cultural events [ edit ] Bergen County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010. Accessed December 16, 2013. 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.

After the opening of the Lincoln Tunnel in 1937, the Inter-City Bus Company began bus service direct from Paterson to New York City. The line was taken over by NJ Transit in the early 1980s. The Rutherford School District serves the borough's public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. [135] As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of five schools, had an enrollment of 2,652 students and 208.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. [136] Public education began in Rutherford prior to 1900, but the oldest school structure that is still standing is the former Park School, built in 1902. It is currently the home of the Rutherford borough hall, on Park Avenue. Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [137]) are Harvey, Cornelius Burnham (ed.), Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey. New York: New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Co., 1900.

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This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. Hutchinson, Viola L. The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 27, 2015.