Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 24,958,[19][20][21][22] reflecting an increase of 22 (+0.1%) from 24,936 in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 784 (+3.2%) from 24,152 in the 1990 Census.[23] Ridgewood is a suburban bedroom community of New York City, located approximately 20 miles (32km) northwest of Midtown Manhattan.[24]
Village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
Village in New Jersey
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Village
Village of Ridgewood
Van Dien House in Ridgewood
Map highlighting Ridgewood's location within Bergen County. Inset: Bergen County's location within New Jersey.
It has been one of the state's highest-income communities. In 2000, its per capita income of $51,658 was ranked the 35th-highest in the state.[25] Based on data from the 2006–2010 American Community Survey, it had a per-capita income of $67,560, 31st in the state.[26] Based on data from the American Community Survey for 2013–2017, it had a median household income of $162,011, ranked 7th in the state among municipalities with more than 10,000 residents, more than double the statewide median of $76,475.[27]
Ridgewood was ranked 26th in Money magazine's "Best Places to Live" in 2011.[28]
History
In 1700, Johannes Van Emburgh built the first home in Ridgewood, having purchased a 250 acres (100ha) property in 1698.[29]
The Village of Ridgewood was created on November 20, 1894, with the same boundaries as Ridgewood Township, also in Bergen County. The Village became the municipal government while the Township remained a school district.[30] In 1902, the village added portions of Orvil Township,[31] which were returned to Orvil Township in 1915. In 1925, Ridgewood Village acquired area from Franklin Township (remainder now dissolved as Wyckoff). On February 9, 1971, Ridgewood acquired area from Washington Township. On May 28, 1974, it acquired area from Ho-Ho-Kus.[32] The name of the village derives from the characteristics of its terrain.[33]
Historic sites
Ridgewood is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places:[34]
Ackerman House (222 Doremus Avenue) – 222 Doremus Avenue (added 1983) was constructed by Johannes and Jemima Ackerman c.1787 on their 72-acre (29ha) property and remained in the Ackerman family until the 1920s.[35]
Ackerman House (252 Lincoln Avenue) – 252 Lincoln Avenue (added 1983) is a stone house constructed c.1810 and named for either David or John Ackerman.[35]
David Ackerman House – 415 East Saddle River Road (added 1983).
Ackerman-Van Emburgh House – 789 East Glen Avenue (added 1983) was built c.1785 by John Ackerman and purchased by the Van Embergh family in 1816.[35]
Archibald-Vroom House – 160 East Ridgewood Avenue (added 1984).[36][37]
Beech Street School – 49 Cottage Place (added 1998).
Paramus Reformed Church Historic District – Bounded by Franklin Turnpike, Route 17, Saddle River, south side of cemetery and Glen Avenue (added 1975). The Old Paramus Reformed Church was established in 1725, though the current building dates to 1800. During the Revolutionary War, the church was used for several years by the Continental Army, and in 1778 it was the site of the court-martial of General Charles Lee.[38]
Rathbone-Zabriskie House – 570 North Maple Avenue (added 1983).
Vanderbeck House – 249 Prospect Street (added 1983).
Westervelt-Cameron House – 26 East Glen Avenue (added 1983), constructed c.1767 by John R. Westervelt.[39]
Historic Graydon Pool – Located at the corner of North Maple Ave & Linwood Ave
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village had a total area of 5.80 square miles (15.03km2), including 5.74 square miles (14.87km2) of land and 0.06 square miles (0.16km2) of water (1.07%).[1][2]
Downtown – The central business district of Ridgewood, "Town" is centered on East Ridgewood Avenue. This area is home to the most iconic buildings in Ridgewood, such as the Wilsey building and the Moore Building.
Scrabbletown – Located between East Glen Avenue, Franklin Turnpike, and the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook.
The Old Country Club – Located between Goffle Road, Rock Road, Lincoln Avenue and Godwin Avenue. It is near the Midland Park border.
The View – Area on and to the west of Ridgewood's highest point, an unnamed ridge known for its skyline views of New York City.
Upper Ridgewood – Located north of West Glen Avenue and west of the NJ Transit Main Line tracks.
Salem Ridge – Located East of Route 17.
Floral Park – Located between Grove Street, South Pleasant, East Ridgewood Avenue and South Van Dien Street.
Brookside
The Lawns – A loosely defined area in southern Ridgewood surrounding Hawes Elementary School.
Climate
Ridgewood has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and the hardiness zone is 7a bordering on 6b.
In the 2020 United States Census, the population of Ridgewood was reported at 25,979, an increase of 1,121 people since the 2010 Census. Based on data from the 2015-2019 American Community Survey, it was reported that there were 8,300 households in the village. The average number of persons per household was 3.01. 96.8% of the households owned a computer. 96.5% of the population (age 25+) graduated high school and 76.0% have a Bachelor's degree. 78.8% of the population was White, 15.5% were Asian, 7.9% were Hispanic or Latino, and 1.2% were Black or African American.[19]
2010 Census
The 2010 United States census counted 24,958 people, 8,456 households, and 6,756 families in the village. The population density was 4,339.0 per square mile (1,675.3/km2). There were 8,743 housing units at an average density of 1,520.0 per square mile (586.9/km2). The racial makeup was 82.21% (20,518) White, 1.59% (398) Black or African American, 0.06% (16) Native American, 12.99% (3,242) Asian, 0.02% (4) Pacific Islander, 1.06% (265) from other races, and 2.06% (515) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.27% (1,316) of the population.[20]
Of the 8,456 households, 45.4% had children under the age of 18; 69.1% were married couples living together; 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present and 20.1% were non-families. Of all households, 17.4% were made up of individuals and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.93 and the average family size was 3.34.[20]
30.7% of the population were under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 21.1% from 25 to 44, 30.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41.0 years. For every 100 females, the population had 93.3 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 90.1 males.[20]
The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $143,229 (with a margin of error of +/− $10,530) and the median family income was $172,825 (+/− $9,197). Males had a median income of $111,510 (+/− $12,513) versus $77,651 (+/− $9,008) for females. The per capita income for the village was $67,560 (+/− $3,740). About 2.2% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.4% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.[52]
Same-sex couples headed 38 households in 2010, an increase from the 22 counted in 2000.[53]
2000 Census
As of the 2000 United States Census[16] there were 24,936 people, 8,603 households, and 6,779 families residing in the village. The population density was 4,308.9 people per square mile (1,662.8/km2). There were 8,802 housing units at an average density of 1,521.0 per square mile (587.0/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 87.82% White, 1.64% African American, 0.04% Native American, 8.67% Asian, 0.59% from other races, and 1.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.78% of the population.[50][51]
There were 8,603 households, out of which 44.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.4% were married couples living together, 7.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.2% were non-families. 18.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.87 and the average family size was 3.30.[50][51]
In the village, the population was spread out, with 30.0% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.5 males.[50][51]
The median income for a household in the village was $104,286, and the median income for a family was $121,848. Males had a median income of $90,422 versus $50,248 for females. The per capita income for the village was $51,658. 3.0% of the population and 1.8% of families were below the poverty line, including 2.5% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.[50][51]
Arts and culture
The indie rock band Real Estate was described by The Record as "Ridgewood's best-known musical export".[54]
Graydon Park, located between Linwood and North Maple Avenues, includes a beach park pool, baseball field, soccer field, and roller rink.[56]
Veterans Field, located next to the library and police station, includes four baseball and softball fields, as well as a bandshell offering free concerts. The Ridgewood High School baseball team plays its home games here.
Citizens Park, located across the street from George Washington Middle School, includes two baseball fields and a soccer field. The hill is often used in the winter for sledding.
Ridgewood Wild Duck Pond, part of Bergen's Saddle River County Park, is located on East Ridgewood Avenue between Paramus Road and Pershing Avenue. Amenities include circular path with bench seating around duck pond, picnic pavilion, additional picnic areas, children's playground, fenced-in dog park, restroom facilities and entrance to a 6-mile, multi-use bike & pedestrian pathway. This pathway connects Ridgewood Duck Pond with five other areas along the Saddle River County Park: Glen Rock, Fair Lawn, Paramus, Rochelle Park and Saddle Brook. Fishing (NJ state license required) and ice skating are allowed at pond when conditions permit. The water is treated with certain chemicals, however, and swimming is strictly prohibited.[57]
Government
Local government
Ridgewood is governed within the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under Council-Manager plan B, as implemented on July 1, 1970, by direct petition.[58] The village is one of 42 municipalities (of the 564) statewide governed under this form.[59] The governing body is comprised of five council members who are responsible to hire and oversee a professional Village Manager who has full executive power for all departments. The government consists of five council members, with all positions elected at-large in nonpartisan elections to serve four-year terms on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats coming up for election in even-numbered years on the second Tuesday in November. At a reorganization meeting held in January after newly elected council members take office, the council chooses a mayor and deputy mayor from among its members for two-year terms, with the mayor presiding over Council meetings, but without any executive authority.[3] The Village Council appoints a Village Manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Village, to handle personnel, citizen inquiries and complaints, and to handle the administrative duties of the Village. The Village Council passes local laws, makes appointments to various Boards and Committees, and awards various contracts for purchases of goods and services used by the Village. They also review, amend, and adopt the annual budget for the Village prepared by the Village Manager and Chief Financial Officer.
As of 2022[update], members of the Ridgewood Village Council are Mayor Susan Knudsen (term on council and as mayor ends December 31, 2022), Deputy Mayor Michael Sedon (term on council and as mayor ends 2022), Pamela Perron (2024), Lorraine Reynolds (2024) and Paul Vagianos (2024; elected to serve an unexpired term).[4][60][61][62][63][64][65]
In August 2021, councilmember Bernadette Walsh resigned from the seat expiring in December 2024, which was left temporarily vacant.[66] In the November 2021 general election, Paul Vagianos was elected to serve the balance of the term of office.[62][67]
In the November 2020 general election, voters approved by a 59%-41% margin a referendum that would move school and municipal elections (which had been held in April and May respectively) so that they were included as part of the November general election. The supporters of the initiative argued that the shift would "save money, improve turnout and improve security at schools where elections are held".[68] The village council challenged the results of the referendum, but the village lost in Superior Court and had the ruling affirmed on appeal in March 2021, with the judge ruling that the village clerk had acted "improperly and unlawfully" in seeking to block the referendum.[69]
For the 2022–2023 session, the 40th Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Kristin Corrado (R, Totowa) and in the General Assembly by Christopher DePhillips (R, Wyckoff) and Kevin J. Rooney (R, Wyckoff).[79]
Bergen County is governed by a directly elected County Executive, with legislative functions performed by a Board of County Commissioners comprised of seven members who are elected at-large in partisan elections on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election each November; a Chairman, Vice Chairman and Chairman Pro Tempore are selected from among its seven members at a reorganization meeting held every January. Other Bergen County Constitutional Offices are the County Clerk and County Surrogate (both elected for five-year terms of office) and the County Sheriff (elected for a three-year term).[80]
As of 2022[update], the county executive is Democratic James J. Tedesco III of Paramus, whose term of office ends December 31, 2022.[81] Bergen County's Commissioners are
Chairwoman Tracy Silna Zur (D, Franklin Lakes, term as commissioner ends December 31, 2024; term as chairwoman ends 2022),[82]
Vice Chairman Thomas J. Sullivan Jr. (D, Montvale, 2022),[83]
Chair Pro Tempore Joan Voss (D, Fort Lee, 2023),[84]
Mary J. Amoroso (D, Mahwah, 2022),[85]
Ramon M. Hache Sr. (D, Ridgewood, 2023),[86]
Germaine M. Ortiz (D, Emerson, 2022)[87] and
Steven A. Tanelli (D, North Arlington, 2024).[88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95]
Bergen County's constitutional officials are
County Clerk John S. Hogan (D, Northvale, 2026),[96][97]
Sheriff Anthony Cureton (D, Englewood, 2022)[98][99]
Surrogate Michael R. Dressler (D, Cresskill, 2026).[100][101][91][102]
Politics
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 15,983 registered voters in Ridgewood, of which 4,727 (29.6% vs. 31.7% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 4,125 (25.8% vs. 21.1%) were registered as Republicans and 7,118 (44.5% vs. 47.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 13 voters registered as Libertarians or Greens.[103] Among the village's 2010 Census population, 64.0% (vs. 57.1% in Bergen County) were registered to vote, including 92.4% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide).[103][104]
In the 2016 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton received 8,000 votes (60.4% vs. 54.2% countywide), ahead of Republican Donald Trump with 4,576 votes (34.6% vs. 41.1%) and other candidates with 665 votes (5.0% vs. 4.6%), among the 13,308 ballots cast by the village's 17,892 registered voters, for a turnout of 74.4% (vs. 72.5% in Bergen County).[105] In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 6,181 votes here (50.5% vs. 54.8% countywide), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 5,852 votes (47.8% vs. 43.5%) and other candidates with 130 votes (1.1% vs. 0.9%), among the 12,232 ballots cast by the village's 17,124 registered voters, for a turnout of 71.4% (vs. 70.4% in Bergen County).[106][107] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 7,387 votes here (55.5% vs. 53.9% countywide), ahead of Republican John McCain with 5,743 votes (43.2% vs. 44.5%) and other candidates with 80 votes (0.6% vs. 0.8%), among the 13,306 ballots cast by the village's 16,867 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.9% (vs. 76.8% in Bergen County).[108][109] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 6,656 votes here (50.7% vs. 51.7% countywide), ahead of Republican George W. Bush with 6,357 votes (48.4% vs. 47.2%) and other candidates with 94 votes (0.7% vs. 0.7%), among the 13,141 ballots cast by the village's 16,325 registered voters, for a turnout of 80.5% (vs. 76.9% in the whole county).[110]
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 62.9% of the vote (4,259 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 36.2% (2,453 votes), and other candidates with 0.9% (59 votes), among the 6,864 ballots cast by the village's 16,103 registered voters (93 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 42.6%.[111][112] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 4,192 votes here (48.8% vs. 45.8% countywide), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 3,885 votes (45.3% vs. 48.0%), Independent Chris Daggett with 423 votes (4.9% vs. 4.7%) and other candidates with 44 votes (0.5% vs. 0.5%), among the 8,582 ballots cast by the village's 16,509 registered voters, yielding a 52.0% turnout (vs. 50.0% in the county).[113]
Education
Ridgewood High School
The Ridgewood Public Schools serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.[114] As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of 10 schools, had an enrollment of 5,613 students and 432.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1.[115] Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[116]) are
Glen School[117] with 60 students in PreK and Private Day Care Center,
Henrietta Hawes Elementary School[118] with 593 students in grades K-5,
Orchard Elementary School[119] with 299 students in grades K-5,
Ridge Elementary School[120] with 443 students in grades K-5,
Irwin B. Somerville Elementary School[121] with 383 students in grades K-5,
Ira W. Travell Elementary School[122] with 377 students in grades K-5,
Willard Elementary School[123] with 461 students in grades K-5,
Benjamin Franklin Middle School[124] with 698 students in grades 6-8,
George Washington Middle School[125] with 666 students in grades 6-8 and
Ridgewood High School[126] with 1,775 students in grades 9-12.[127][128]
The district's high school was the 28th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[129] The school had been ranked 28th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 20th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[130] The school was ranked 606th in U.S. News & World Report national rankings for 2019.[131]
According to the New Jersey Department of Education, Ridgewood is a socioeconomic District Factor Group of J, the highest of eight categories.[132]
Public school students from the village, 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 campus in Teterboro or Paramus. The district offers programs on a shared-time or full-time basis, with admission based on an extremely selective and competitive application process and tuition covered by the student's home school district.[133][134]
The Holmstead School serves students of high school age with high intellectual potential who have not succeeded in traditional school settings. Students are placed in the school by referral from their home public school districts, with tuition paid for by the school district.[135]
Preschools in Ridgewood include Bethlehem Early Learning Center, West Side Presbyterian, First Presbyterian School, the Cooperative Nursery School of Ridgewood, and the Montessori Learning Center
Local media
The village of Ridgewood is served by two weekly community newspapers—The Ridgewood News and the Ridgewood Suburban News. The papers are published by North Jersey Media Group. The daily newspaper for the region is The Record which is also published by North Jersey Media Group. The company's website, NorthJersey.com, has a Ridgewood town page that includes local coverage from all three of these papers. Patch Media provides Ridgewood with its own daily news website, which offers news, events, announcements and Local Voices.[136]
Transportation
Route 17 northbound in Ridgewood
Roads and highways
Entering Ridgewood along County Route 79
As of May2010[update], the village had a total of 94.70 miles (152.40km) of roadways, of which 79.79 miles (128.41km) were maintained by the municipality, 13.77 miles (22.16km) by Bergen County, and 1.14 miles (1.83km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[137] Major roads that pass through Ridgewood include New Jersey Route 17, Franklin Turnpike, County Route 84 (commonly known as East and West Ridgewood Avenue) and County Route 507 (Maple Avenue).
Public transportation
The Ridgewood train station[138] is served by the NJ Transit Main Line as well as the Bergen County Line.[139] The station features three platforms. The first is for all trains headed south toward Hoboken Terminal. The second is for Bergen County Line trains headed in the same direction, and the third is for Main Line trains headed toward Suffern and Port Jervis. NJ Transit trains on both the Bergen County and the Main Lines go to Hoboken, stopping at Secaucus Junction, for transfers to trains to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and other destinations served by the station. Parking is limited near the Ridgewood train station. Taxicabs are available at the train station; the taxi building is on the northbound platform.
NJ Transit buses in Ridgewood include the 148, 163 and 164 to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, the 175 to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, and local service offered on the 722 (to Paramus Park and Paterson), 746 (to Paterson, as Ridgewood is its terminus) and 752 (to Hackensack) routes.[140][141] Except for the 148 route, all the others stop at NJ Transit's Ridgewood Bus Terminal on Van Neste Square.
Short Line offers service along Route 17 to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, as well as to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station and down the East Side on Manhattan to 23rd Street.[142]
Notable people
See also: Category:People from Ridgewood, New Jersey
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Ridgewood include:
Jim Alexander (born 1935), documentary photographer, photojournalist and activist[143]
Guy Benson (born 1985), conservative talk radio personality who has been a Fox News contributor[151]
Dale Berra (born 1956), former MLB player who primarily played as an infielder from 1977 to 1987 and is the son of Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra[152]
Andy Blitz (born 1971), comedian, writer, producer and actor best known for his sketch comedy and writing work on the late-night talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien[153]
Jim Bouton (1939–2019), former Major League Baseball pitcher who wrote the tell-all book Ball Four[155]
Dave Butler (born 1987), former American football linebacker who played for the Cleveland Browns[156]
Phillip Bush (born 1961), classical pianist, with a career focusing primarily on chamber music and contemporary classical music[157]
Brenda Buttner (1961–2017), senior business correspondent and host of Bulls & Bears on Fox News[158]
John Chester Buttre (1821–1893), steel-plate engraver and lithographer, responsible for some 3,000 engraved portraits of American political, naval and military personalities[159]
Martha Byrne (born 1969), actress who performed on Broadway as a child in Annie and as an adult in the role of Lily Walsh in As the World Turns[160]
Peter Carlisle (born 1952), mayor of Honolulu[161]
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (born 1957), writer, art historian and curator who was the Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13)[162]
Harlan Coben (born 1962), The New York Times best-selling author of Promise Me, Tell No One and No Second Chance[163][164]
Tabatha Coffey (born 1967), contestant (and Fan Favorite winner) on season one of Bravo's Shear Genius and host of Tabatha's Salon Takeover
Leonard A. Cole (born 1933), dentist, political scientist and expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine[165]
Jerry Coleman (1924–2014), former second baseman for the New York Yankees, baseball sportscaster[166]
Fairleigh Dickinson Jr. (1919–1996), member of the New Jersey Senate from 1968 to 1971 who sponsored the 1969 legislation that created the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission[177]
Anne Donovan (born 1961), three-time basketball All-American at Old Dominion University and three-time Olympic team member. Ranked #8 on the Sports Illustrated list of The 50 Greatest New Jersey Sports Figures[178]
Charles L. Drake (1924–1997), geologist who was professor of geology at Dartmouth College[179]
Fred DuVal (born 1954), businessman, civic leader, and author who is vice president of Clean Energy Fuels and was the Democratic nominee in the 2014 Arizona gubernatorial election[181]
W. Cary Edwards (1944–2010), former member of the New Jersey General Assembly who served as New Jersey Attorney General from 1986 to 1989[182]
Jeff Feagles (born 1966), Punter for the National Football League New York Giants[184]
Mike Ferguson (born 1970), politician who served as member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 2001 to 2009[185]
Ray Forrest (1916–1999), pioneering TV announcer, host and news broadcaster from the early TV era[187]
Varian Fry (1907–1967), journalist who helped save 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees from persecution and deportation in Vichy France during The Holocaust, most notably the French artist Marc Chagall[188][189]
Louis Gambaccini (1931–2018), transportation official who served as general manager of the Port Authority Trans Hudson rail system and as New Jersey commissioner of transportation[190]
Bill Geist (born 1945), correspondent on CBS News Sunday Morning[191]
Arnold Gingrich (1903–1976), editor and co-founder of Esquire magazine[192]
John P. Ginty (born 1965), financial data analyst and politician who was a candidate in 2006 for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate[193]
Gina Glantz (born c.1943), political strategist, campaign manager, field director, and consultant[194]
Abraham Godwin (1724–1777), one of the first settlers of the area around Ridgewood[citation needed]
Abraham Godwin (1763–1835), brigadier general in the War of 1812, for whom Godwinville was named[195]
Abraham Godwin Jr. (1791–1849), worked to name part of Franklin as Godwinville[citation needed]
Frankie Jonas (born 2000), actor who was a voice actor in the film Ponyo and a recurring character in the television series Jonas[203]
Margaret Juntwait (1957–2015), the voice of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts[204][205]
Jay Kennedy (1956–2007), editor and writer who joined King Features Syndicate in 1988 as deputy comics editor and was named as editor-in-chief in 1997[206]
Walter M. D. Kern (born 1937), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1978 to 1990, where he represented the 40th district[207]
Grace Kim (born 1968), former professional tennis player[208]
Peter S. Kim (born c.1957), president of Merck Research Laboratories[209][210]
Richard Kollmar (1910–1971), stage, radio, film and television actor, television personality and Broadway producer[211]
Younghoe Koo (born 1994), NFL kicker who has played for the Atlanta Falcons[212]
Bowie Kuhn (1926–2007), Commissioner of Baseball from 1969 to 1984[213]
L.A. Beast (born 1984 as Kevin Strahle), competitive eater[214]
Jeffrey M. Lacker (born 1955), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond[215]
Mike Laga (born 1960), Major League Baseball player from 1982 to 1990[216][217]
John Lantigua (born 1947), journalist and crime novelist who has won the Pulitzer Prize and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his investigative reporting on Latin American issues[218]
Martha MacCallum (born 1964), news anchor on Fox News Channel[222]
Herbert F. Maddalene (born 1932), architect who was a partner in the firm of Genovese & Maddalene[223]
David Madden (born 1981), founder and executive director of both the National History Bee and the National History Bowl who was a 19-day champion on Jeopardy![224]
Paul Mara (born 1979), National Hockey League defenceman who has played for the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers[225][226]
Marion Clyde McCarroll (1891–1977), writer and journalist who was the first woman issued a press pass by the New York Stock Exchange and also penned the "Advice for the Lovelorn, a nationally syndicated column, after she inherited it from Dorothy Dix[227]
Thomas B. McGuire Jr. (1920–1945), the second-leading air ace in World War II, who was killed in action on January 7, 1945, and awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. McGuire Air Force Base is named in his memory[228]
Julia Meade (1925–2016), film and stage actress who was a frequent pitch person in live commercials in the early days of television in the 1950s, most notably on The Ed Sullivan Show[229]
Michael Mercurio (born 1972), actor who has appeared in film, theatre, and television, often portraying psychologically disturbed characters[230]
Jack Pitney (1963–2010), marketing executive with BMW as vice president of marketing, where he played a major role in convincing company leadership to go ahead with distribution of the MINI in the United States, despite concerns that car buyers there would not buy cars that small given the popularity of sport utility vehicles[246]
Eric S. Rosengren (born 1957), President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston[253]
Marge Roukema (1929–2014), politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives[254]
Henry Rowan (1923–2015), engineer and philanthropist, for whom Rowan University was renamed, after he made a $100 million donation to the school[255]
Bob Sall (1908–1974), race car driver who drove in the 1935 Indianapolis 500 and was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1992[256]
Scottie Scheffler (born 1996), professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour[257]
David Schenker (born 1968), diplomat who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs[258]
Kieran Scott (born 1974), author of Private and I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader[259]
Bob Sebra (born 1961), MLB player for the Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and the Milwaukee Brewers[260]
Irving Selikoff (1915–1992), physician and medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments, whose work is largely responsible for the current strict regulation of asbestos[261]
Jordin Sparks (born 1989), American Idol winner, lived here as a child while her father played with the Giants[262][263]
Phillippi Sparks (born 1969), former NFL cornerback who played most of his career with the New York Giants[262]
Michael Springer (born 1979), former MLL player[264]
Ali Stroker (born 1987), actress, singer and winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Ado Annie in "Oklahoma". She is the first actress who needs a wheelchair for mobility known to have appeared on a Broadway stage[265]
Sub Urban (born 1999), singer, songwriter and producer best known for his song "Cradles"[266]
Don Van Natta Jr. (born 1964), journalist and writer who has been an investigative reporter for ESPN and had been an investigative correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a member of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes[270]
Melinda Wagner (born 1957), composer, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music[272]
Ayelet Waldman (born 1964), Israeli-American novelist and essayist, who has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels[273]
Bill Ward (1919–1998), cartoonist notable as a good girl artist and creator of the risqué comics character Torchy[274]
Michael Zegen (born 1979), actor best known for his role as Joel Maisel on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel[279]
Points of interest
The Ridgewood Post Office was the site of a postal killing in 1991, where a former postal worker, Joseph M. Harris, killed his former supervisor, Carol Ott, with a katana and shot her fiancé, Cornelius Kasten Jr., at their home. The following morning, on October 10, 1991, Harris shot and killed two mail handlers at the Ridgewood Post Office.[280][281]
Warner Theater is a Bow Tie Cinema located on East Ridgewood Avenue.[282]
2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 169.
Village Council, Village of Ridgewood. Accessed March 3, 2020. "The Village Council is the governing body of the Village of Ridgewood. There are five Council members who are elected at large, on a non-partisan basis. The Municipal Election for Village Council takes place on the second Tuesday in May, in even numbered years. The term of a Council member is four years. The Mayor is chosen by the Village Council every two years, after a Municipal Election."
2022 New Jersey Mayors Directory, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. Accessed March 1, 2022. As of date accessed, Ramon Hache is incorrectly listed as mayor.
Janoski, Steve. "Ridgewood village manager resigns, citing 'contentious' work environment", The Record, September 6, 2016. Accessed December 9, 2016. "Former village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld said she was forced from her office Tuesday by Mayor Susan Knudsen after she sent a resignation letter to the governing body citing an 'increasingly contentious' work environment as the reason for her departure."
"Village of Ridgewood". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
Raychaudhuri, Disha. "The wealthiest towns in N.J., ranked", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 7, 2019. Accessed November 4, 2019. "The median household income in N.J. is $76,475, recent Census data shows.... A note about the data: The data comes from 2013-2017 American Community Survey conducted by U.S. Census Bureau. Smaller towns with less than 10,000 residents were excluded from the list.... 7. Ridgewood, Bergen County Median income: $162,011"
History, Old Paramus Reformed Church. Accessed September 22, 2015. "The congregation was formed in the year 1725. During the American Revolution, the Paramus Church was the site of a Continental Army military post for four years during which clashes between American and British forces took place. It was also in the original church building that General George Washington held a session of the court-martial of General Charles Lee who disobeyed orders at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778."
Historical Population Trends in Bergen County (1900-2010), Bergen County Department of Planning & Economic Development, 2011. Accessed September 26, 2019. Data for 1900, prior to the borough's formation, was extrapolated by analysts from Bergen County.
Lipman, Harvy; and Sheingold, Dave. "North Jersey sees 30% growth in same-sex couples", The Record, August 14, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 3, 2013. Accessed October 4, 2014.
Lazarus, Violet. "Village Council Member Bernadette Walsh Resigns", TAP into Ridgewood, August 12, 2021. Accessed July 7, 2022. "Council Member Bernadette Walsh resigned effective immediately during last night’s Council Meeting. Walsh cited her husband’s transfer out of state as the reason for her resignation. There will be a special election in November for a resident to fill Walsh’s unexpired term and applications to be on the ballot are due by August 30."
Lazarus, Violet. "Vagianos Says he Wants to Prioritize Positivity, Transparency", TAP into Ridgewood, November 4, 2021. Accessed July 7, 2022. "Paul Vagianos will be the Village of Ridgewood’s newest council member, to fill the vacated seat of Bernadette Walsh for the next three years."
Stoltz, Marsha A. "Ridgewood voters OK moving all village elections to November", The Record, November 4, 2020. Accessed July 7, 2022. "Election results Tuesday showed wide voter approval for moving all the village's elections to November, but not everyone is convinced the vote is binding. Supporters of One Village, One Vote were celebrating their victory Wednesday after winning the OK to move what were once separate spring municipal and school board elections to the November general election, by a vote of 6,521 to 4,450. The figures are incomplete because Bergen County is still tabulating votes, but results point to approval by a comfortable margin."
Stoltz, Marsha A. "Judge affirms 'clear choice' of Ridgewood voters to shift to November elections", The Record, March 10, 2021. Accessed July 7, 2022. "An appellate judge has sided with residents who sought to move the election dates for the Village Council and Board of Education to November. Judge Richard Geiger on Tuesday affirmed a September ruling by Superior Court Judge Estela De La Cruz that Village Clerk Heather Mailander had acted 'improperly and unlawfully' in attempting to block a petition by the group One Village One Vote to place the question of fall elections for both bodies on the November ballot.... Voters supported the changes 7,582 to 5,315. School board elections were previously held in April, and council elections in May."
Biography, Congressman Josh Gottheimer. Accessed January 3, 2019. "Josh now lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey with Marla, his wife who was a federal prosecutor, and their two young children, Ellie and Ben."
Biography of Bob Menendez, United States Senate, January 26, 2015. "Menendez, who started his political career in Union City, moved in September from Paramus to one of Harrison's new apartment buildings near the town's PATH station.."
2009 Governor: Bergen CountyArchived December 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed December 15, 2013.
Ridgewood Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Ridgewood Public Schools. Accessed May 15, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Ridgewood School District. Composition: The Ridgewood School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Ridgewood."
Jim Alexander, The HistoryMakers. Accessed July 3, 2018. "In 1964, Alexander moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey and started a career as a freelance photographer."
"Elizabeth Akers Allen" in The Magazine of Poetry, Volume 6, p. 161. Accessed November 17, 2017. "After making their home in Ridgewood, N. J., for several years, she has recently removed to New York, and is engaged in literary work."
Idec, Keith. "Ridgewood's Joe Antonacci inducted into New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame", The Record, November 9, 2012. Accessed December 15, 2013. "Only now, the lifelong Ridgewood resident is part of the show. Antonacci, 52, has become one of the sport's most recognizable and respected ring announcers, a true professional whose contributions to boxing were acknowledged Thursday night when he was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame."
Staff. "Gen. Adam Badeau Dead", New York Times, March 21, 1895. Accessed October 2, 2013. "Ridgewood, N.J., March 20.—Brigadier-Gen. Adam Badeau died suddenly last night."
Mitchell, Sarah; Tootill, Elizabeth; and Gjertsen, Derek. Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Second Edition, p. 48. CRC Press, 1994. ISBN9780750302876. Accessed December 15, 2013. "Bakker, Robert (b. 1945; Ridgewood, New Jersey) American paleontologist"
Rosen, Jody. "Music; Rapping in Whiteface (for Laughs)", The New York Times, April 23, 2000. Accessed September 27, 2012. "MC Paul Barman, a 25-year-old Brown University graduate from Ridgewood, N.J., is pioneering a new hip-hop persona: the rapper as schlemiel."
Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston. All the Days of My Life: an Autobiography: The Red Leaves of a Human Heart, p. 306. D. Appleton and Company, 1913. Accessed December 15, 2013. "trunks go Ridgewood I shall not detain my readers long with my New Jersey experiences. I was in Ridgewood nineteen weary months, but to the last Mr. Libbey's kindness."
Senior Watch, Northwestern University. Accessed December 15, 2013. "'It occurred to me that someone was getting paid to go to every game and tell thousands of people what was happening,' says the Medill School of Journalism senior from Ridgewood, N.J."
Davis, Erik. "Interview: Rocket Science Director Jeffrey Blitz", Moviefone, August 10, 2007. Accessed December 15, 2013. "I grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, which is north of New York. But I moved it to Plainsboro because I felt it was more interesting for them to kind of orbit around a dead city in Trenton."
Staff. "Bouton, a 21-Game Winner, Spurns Yanks' First Offer", The New York Times, February 13, 1964. Accessed November 4, 2012. "The New York Yankees have a holdout. He is Jim Bouton, the 25-year-old pitcher from Ridgewood, N.J., who won 21 games for the American League champions last season."
Dave Butler, Pro-Football-Reference.com. Accessed November 22, 2021. "Born: July 17, 1965 (Age: 56-128d) in Ridgewood, NJ"
Clavier, Volume 22, p. 16. Accessed November 17, 2017. "The Beethoven Foundation announced the 1983 Fellows: pianists Phillip Bush, Michael Lewin, and John Salmon. Bush, 21, formerly of Ridgewood, New Jersey and presently residing in Charlotte, North Carolina, received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied under Leon Fleisher."
"John Chester Buttre", in The National Magazine: (Cleveland) a Monthly Journal of American History, Volumes 18-19, p. 205, Western History Publishing Company, 1893. Accessed November 16, 2017. "Mr. Buttre died at his home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, on the 2nd of December, 1893."
Staff. "Peter Carlisle officially Honolulu's 13th mayor, says rail is a priority", The Hawaii Independent, October 12, 2010. Accessed December 20, 2013. "Prior to running for mayor, Carlisle served for 14 years as Honolulu's elected Prosecutor. He was born in 1952 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UCLA School of Law."
"Book looks at what drives teens JERSEY INK", The Star-Ledger, May 25, 2006. "Coben, who was born in Newark and grew up in Livingston, graduating from Livingston High School, has relatives in Livingston and often goes there. He has lived in Ridgewood since 1992."
Finn, Robin. "Local Writer, Worldwide Following", The New York Times, April 2, 2009. Accessed January 30, 2012. "The writer Harlan Coben and his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, at their home in Ridgewood, N.J."
Boroson, Warren. "How to plan for a disaster; Terrorist expert Leonard Cole of Ridgewood offers advice in 'fine new book' ", Jewish Standard, November 16, 2012. Accessed December 15, 2013. "Cole, a Ph.D. and DDS, is an adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark and director of the program on terror medicine and security at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey Center for Biodefense. A resident of Ridgewood, he is a former president of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey."
Brock, Corey. "Oh, Doctor! Coleman synonymous with Padres; In 40th year as radio voice of club, 'The Colonel' to be honored on Saturday", Major League Baseball, September 13, 2012. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Coleman started out calling the national game of the week for CBS, but he began calling Yankees game in 1963. Working and living in New York, Coleman said, was intense. He lived in Ridgewood, N.J., which was '19.9 miles from Yankee Stadium, but a million miles from New York.'"
O'Donnell, Chuck. "Ridgewood native yields to her love of romance novels", The Record, February 21, 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 16, 2013. Accessed January 28, 2020. "Much like a raven-haired maiden unable to resist the charms of a bare-chested lothario, Megan Crane always has been drawn to romance novels and their steamy covers. It started the day a 12-year-old Crane discovered her first novel at the old Woolworth's in Ridgewood, and has grown stronger with each tale of love, lust and exotic locales she has read."
Andy Daly, Comedy Central. Accessed December 30, 2017. "Daly grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey idolizing comedy legends such as Andy Kaufman, George Carlin, and Peter Sellers, and is a huge fan of David Letterman and The Simpsons."
Kislevitz, Gail. "Racing legend from Ridgewood honored at 10K race in Central Park", The Ridgewood News, July 12, 2013. "Ridgewood's own running legend, Toshiko d'Elia, was honored at the historic all-women's race called the Mini 10K (6.2 miles) in New York's Central Park on June 8."
Lee, Linda. "A Night Out With: Meghan Daum; No Escaping the City", The New York Times, June 1, 2003. Accessed September 22, 2015. "Among the crowd were chums from her days at Vassar and from the M.F.A. writing program at Columbia, and her parents. (She grew up in Ridgewood, N.J.)"
Staff. "Barbara Demick Named Seoul Bureau Chief", Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2001. Accessed September 21, 2015. "A native of Ridgewood, N.J., Demick earned a bachelor's degree in economic history from Yale University and completed the Bagehot Fellowship in economic and business journalism at Columbia University."
About Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Demick grew up in Ridgewood, N.J. She is currently the Los Angeles Times' bureau chief in Beijing."
Todd Demsey, PGA Tour. Accessed December 15, 2013.
Stout, David. "Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., 76, Who Helped Save the Meadowlands", The New York Times, October 17, 1996. Accessed December 15, 2013. "Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., a businessman, philanthropist and former New Jersey State Senator who was instrumental in preserving the Hackensack Meadowlands, died on Saturday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.... He also had a home in Ridgewood, N.J."
O'Donnell, Chuck. "Ridgewood native's love of comics takes him to The Infinite Horizon", The Ridgewood News, December 2, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive]] as of May 21, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2017. "Staring at a dog-eared copy of Homer's The Odyssey he had pulled off a shelf, Duggan's mind flashed back to the first time he was introduced to the book as a student at Ridgewood High School.... The senior class president of the class of 1992 was an exuberant, outgoing, intelligent kid - "a big teddy bear" as one former classmate put it - with a healthy imagination"
Lemoine, Leah. "Citizen Fred", Phoenix, May 2014. Accessed September 22, 2015. "Though born in Ridgewood, N.J., DuVal's life has been defined by living in Arizona, where his family moved when he was in fourth grade."
Romano, Jay. "On the Road With Cary Edwards", The New York Times, April 25, 1993. Accessed December 16, 2013. "W. Cary Edwards, 48, was born in Ridgewood and grew up in Bergen County. When he was 11 years old, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother, Virginia, and a brother and a sister to East Paterson."
Wertheim, Margaret. "Scientist At Work—Niles Eldredge; Bursts of Cornets and Evolution Bring Harmony to Night and Day", The New York Times, March 9, 2004. Accessed January 30, 2012. "By his own admission, Dr. Niles Eldredge is a pretty mediocre horn player. Tootling on a cornet in his living room in Ridgewood, N.J., he pumps out a few bars of Bach, then puts down the instrument with a good-natured sigh."
Pennington, Bill. "Homesick Punter Rejoins Giants", The New York Times, August 23, 2006. Accessed July 27, 2011. "'I told the Giants I was unofficially retired,' said Feagles, who then sold his house in Ridgewood, N.J., and bought a new one in Arizona."
Mike Ferguson, Washington Post. Accessed September 22, 2015. "Born: July 22, 1970; Ridgewood, N.J."
"Meet Josh Flitter", El Paso Times, November 7, 2005. Accessed March 30, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Josh grew up in Ridgewood, N.J."
Thomas Jr., Robert McG."Ray Forrest Is Dead at 83; Nation's First TV Personality", The New York Times, March 21, 1999. Accessed August 7, 2015. "Although it drew reams of appreciative mail from parents, the program attracted no sponsors, and after a couple of years it was canceled, drawing such an outpouring of protests it was immediately reinstated as a 90-minute Saturday morning fixture, and Mr. Forrest was off and running again, turning the basement of his Ridgewood, N.J., home into a one-man production studio, where he edited educational films, including many he made himself."
Newman, Maria. "Communities; A Hometown Hero for Ridgewood", The New York Times, November 25, 2001. Accessed December 30, 2017. "Until recently, few in this town realized that Varian Fry, who helped save more than 2,000 artists, intellectuals and others from Hitler's concentration camps, grew up here. But now, as the United States again finds itself at war, people here are rediscovering Fry, who has been called the American Schindler."
Sullivan, Joseph F. "Byrne to Name Gambaccini Transport Commissioner; 'Manipulations' Assailed Plan to Aid State Railroads", The New York Times, April 6, 1978. Accessed July 3, 2018. "The Governor saif he had conferred with Senators from Bergen County and expected no problems in getting Mr. Gambaccini, a Ridgewood resident, confirmed as Transportation Commissioner once Mr. Byrne submitted the nomination to the Senate on April 17."
Carmody, Deirdre. "Arnold Gingrich, 72, Dead; Was a Founder of Esquire", The New York Times, July 10, 1976. Accessed November 17, 2017. "Arnold Gingrich, one of the founders of Esquire magazine in 1933 and its principal guiding light in most of the years since then, died of cancer yesterday at his home in Ridgewood, N.J."
Chen, David W. "Kean Is Challenged From the Right in U.S. Senate Race", The New York Times, April 11, 2006. Accessed June 17, 2008. "The potential challenger's name is John P. Ginty, and he is a 41-year-old financial data analyst and former president of the Ridgewood Republican Club who proudly calls himself an 'ideologue' and a social conservative."
Revolutionary War Sites In Ridgewood Township, New Jersey, Revolutionary War New Jersey. Accessed November 17, 2017. "Abraham Godwin Monument - Brigadier General Abraham Godwin - Soldier, statesman, artist, poet, engraver, musician and gracious host. Born July 16, 1763.... January 1st 1829 occurred the great event of interest to this community: its first name was Godwinville in honor of Abraham Godwin. This section covered Paramus, Newtown (Wortendyke), Midland Park, Ridgewood and Glen Rock and was known as Franklin Township."
Kirch, Patrick V. "Roger Curtis Green 1932-2009", National Academy of Sciences, 2010. Accessed June 15, 2015. "Roger's parents, Eleanor Richards (b. 1908) and Robert Jefferson Green (b. 1905), were married in April 1931, and at the time of Roger's birth resided in Ridgewood, New Jersey."
Gregory, Alice. "The Most Brilliant American Fashion Designer", T: The New York Times Style Magazine, June 12, 2014. Accessed November 16, 2017. "Born in 1903 to an upper middle-class family in Ridgewood, N.J., Hawes displayed signs of particular personal taste from a young age. "
Waldstein, David. "Young Talent Promises to Rekindle Mets-Braves Rivalry", The New York Times, March 2, 2010. Accessed January 29, 2011. "Born in Ridgewood, N.J., in 1989, Heyward moved with his family to Macon, Ga., where he grew up a fan of the Yankees for two reasons..."
Herzog, Laura. "Ridgewood honors jazz great who went to RHS", The Ridgewood News, April 15, 2013. Accessed December 5, 2013. "Another name recognized by many serious musicians was former Ridgewood resident Sonny Igoe, who died last spring at age 88. A 1939 Ridgewood High School (RHS) 'distinguished alumni' graduate, Igoe was one of America's great big band drummers, who even played with the 'King of Swing' himself, Benny Goodman."
BiographyArchived August 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Cosmo Jarvis - Bigger Thinker. Accessed December 16, 2013. "Born to an Armenian/American mother and a British father, Cosmo Harrison Krikoryan Jarvis began life in Ridgewood, New Jersey."
Walsh, S. M. "Frankie Jonas: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know", Heavy.com, December 26, 2016. Accessed November 17, 2017. "Frankie was born on September 28, 2000, in Ridgewood, New Jersey."
Staff. "New Voice; Opera announcer with a New Jersey accent", The Record, October 5, 2004. Accessed December 20, 2013. "In the world of opera, Margaret Juntwait, born and raised in Ridgewood and Upper Saddle River, has certainly achieved an enviable position. The Metropolitan Opera announced that the WNYC-FM classical music host with the seductively smooth voice will announce Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera."
Wakin, Daniel J. "Met Picks New Voice For Opera Broadcasts", The New York Times, September 29, 2004. Accessed December 20, 2013. "Ms. Juntwait, 47, was brought up in Ridgewood and Upper Saddle River, N.J., and went to work at WNYC in 1991. She lives in the Inwood section of Manhattan."
Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1988, p. 283. Accessed January 22, 2018. "Walter M.D. Kern Jr., Rep., Ridgewood Assemblyman Kern was born in Jersey City March 10, 1937. He was graduated from Ridgewood High School and Brown University, and received his law degree at Columbia Law School in 1962, the year he was admitted to the bar."
Friedman, Charles. "Tennis Star Bars Distractions", The New York Times, January 22, 1984. Accessed June 14, 2018. "The consensus now is that Miss Tell and 15-year-old Grace Kim of Ridgewood are New Jersey's best young female players."
Kim, Peter S. "My First Job; Howdy, Buckaroo, Here's Your Apron", The New York Times, March 11, 2011. Accessed September 20, 2018. "My mother was a single parent and worked hard to make ends meet. I realized that in order to attend college, I would have to get a job. A Roy Rogers restaurant was opening near Ridgewood, N.J., my hometown, and I was hired on the spot to work there."
Blum, Ronald. "Former MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn dead at 80", USA Today, March 16, 2007. Accessed March 10, 2008. "He sold his house in Ridgewood, N.J., and moved to Ponte Vedra Beach, where his home was shielded from bankruptcy proceedings."
Harper, Christine. "A Conversation with Jeffrey M. Lacker"Archived April 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Council on Foreign Relations, May 9, 2013. Accessed April 17, 2014. "It's delightful to be back in New York. I grew up just over the river, Ridgewood, New Jersey, and—son's here, had dinner with my son last night and was treated to just an exceptional flight in over Lower Manhattan last night."
Via Associated Press. "Laga keeps job with Tigers", Spokane Chronicle, March 24, 1986. Accessed September 27, 2012. "A first baseman, he has hit 100 homers in the last four years, but also has struck out 449 times. 'It's a funny business, baseball,' the 25-year-old native of Ridgewood, NJ said."
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. Sterling Publishing. 2007. p.653. ISBN978-1-4027-4771-7.
Staff. "Cornelis Lievense", The New York Times, September 24, 1949. Accessed November 17, 2017."Ridgewood, N. J., Sept. 23 - Cornelis Lievense of the Holland Purchasing Commission, died here yesterday at his home, 525 North Maple Avenue, after a brief illness."
Rohan, Virginia. "Professional juggler", The Record, November 13, 2005. Accessed September 27, 2012. "'I'm sort of half in one world, half in the other at this point of the day,' says MacCallum, a Wyckoff native who has lived in Ridgewood since her elder son was 2 weeks old."
Staff. "Rangers Notes", The Record, February 28, 2007. Accessed December 20, 2013. "The Rangers swapped defensemen with the Boston Bruins about two hours before Tuesday's 3 p.m. trading deadline, getting Ridgewood-born Paul Mara in return for maligned blueliner Aaron Ward."
"Marion C. McCarroll, Ex-Columnist", The New York Times, August 5, 1977. Accessed November 16, 2017. "Marion Clyde McCarroll, who for 21 years wrote the nationally syndicated King Features column 'Advice to the Lovelorn' under the name Beatrice Fairfax, died Monday in the Allendale Nursing Home, Allendale, N.J., where she had lived since 1970. She was 84 years old, and had formerly resided in Manhattan and in Ridgewood. N.J."
U.S. Air Force Fact Sheet: Maj. Thomas B. McGuire Jr.Archived 2011-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, April 17, 2012. Accessed December 20,2013. "Maj. Thomas B. McGuire Jr., whose memory was preserved by the naming of McGuire AFB, was born in Ridgewood, N.J., Aug. 1, 1920."
Roberts, Sam. "Julia Meade, TV Pitchwoman on 'Ed Sullivan,' Dies at 90", The New York Times, May 18, 2016. Accessed May 19, 2016. "Julia Meade Kunz was born on Dec. 17, 1925, in Boston, where her mother, Caroline Kunz (formerly Meade), a Shakespearean actress, was working at the time. Her father, Adam Kunz, was a typewriter salesman. The family lived in New York and moved to Ridgewood, N.J., when Julia was 10."
"Michael Mercurio: From Ridgewood to Hollywood", The Villadom Times, October 27, 2010. Accessed November 16, 2017. "When he was a teenager, his family moved to Ridgewood, where he attended Ridgewood High School from 1986 to 1988."
Rowe, Amy. "Ducktails’ Matt Mondanile finds his own way in Jersey", New York Daily News, September 19, 2017. Accessed October 31, 2018. "Matt Mondanile, the former guitarist for Real Estate and Ridgewood, N.J., native, said it was satisfying to move back home after four years in LA to finish "Jersey Devil," his latest record as solo project Ducktails."
"Elisabeth Moore", International Tennis Hall of Fame. Accessed November 17, 2017. "In the book Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Woman, Moore, who was schooled and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey said, 'I do not think any such change should be made without first canvassing the wishes of the women players … Lawn tennis is a game not alone of skill but of endurance as well, and I fail to see why such a radical change should be made to satisfy a few players who do not take the time or have the inclination to get themselves in proper condition for playing.'"
Crossette, Barbara. "Richard Muenz", The New York Times, July 25, 1980. Accessed December 16, 2013. "Richard Muenz was born in 1948 in Hartford and grew up around Ridgewood, N.J.... He went on to Ridgewood High School, where he played and sang in school productions."
McQuiston, John T. "Helen K. Nearing, Maine Writer, Dies at 91", The New York Times, September 19, 1995. Accessed January 28, 2020. "Mrs. Nearing, who was born in Ridgewood, N.J., graduated from Ridgewood High School, then traveled extensively aboard, studying the violin, which she gave up for gardening when she married Mr. Nearing."
Staff. "Senses Fail performs two area shows", The Record, November 23, 2010. Accessed January 29, 2011. "Senses Fail frontman and Ridgewood native James 'Buddy' Nielsen knows he's indebted to his hometown for leading him to his calling in music. Just not in the way you might think."
"Bishop John O'Hara", Archdiocese of New York. Accessed April 17, 2021. "Bishop O'Hara was raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, graduating from Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in 1959."
Furlong, Jim. "Three of a Kind: They All Play for Duke, but It’s Still Easy to Get the O’Reilly Triplets Mixed Up", Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1988. Accessed September 6, 2019. "Imagine three 20-year-old Liza Minnelli look-alikes from Ridgewood, N.J., by way of Durham, N.C., in Hollywood, dreaming of success.... Christine, Patti and Terri O’Reilly, around whom the best women’s tennis team in Duke University’s history is built, are competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA."
Stephenson, Madeline. "Evanka Osmak: Courting Success", City Life magazine, January 25, 2013. Accessed December 16, 2013. "Persistent Osmak, who was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, relentlessly sent her demo tape to stations across North America."
"Pro Recruiting Story Series: Q & A With Nikki Krzysik", Be Recruited. Accessed November 17, 2017. "Nikki Krzysik is a professional soccer player who currently captains the Philadelphia Independence of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). Krzysik, born in Ridgewood, NJ, attended Clifton High School and was a member of the US Youth National Teams."
Grimes, William. "Jack Pitney, Who Made Much of the Mini, Dies at 47", The New York Times, August 27, 2010. Accessed November 16, 2017. "A spokesman for BMW, citing officials in the Greene County sheriff’s office, said Mr. Pitney died when a tractor he was riding flipped over on him as he was trying to uproot a tree stump. No other details were provided. He also lived in Ridgewood, N.J."
McCall, Tris. "Ridgewood rocks: A slew of hot indie bands have roots in Bergen town", The Star-Ledger, August 1, 2010. Accessed November 28, 2012. "Guitarist and singer Cassie Ramone, a Ridgewood High School graduate who fronts the popular Vivian Girls, says that her parents moved to the Bergen County suburb to take advantage of the schools."
About Amanda, AmandaRenee.com. Accessed November 26, 2016. "Amanda Renée was raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey and now wriggles her toes in the warm coastal Carolina sands."
Klapisch, Bob. "Devils announcer Glenn "Chico" Resch reminisces on hockey and life in Bergen", (201) Magazine, December 15, 2010. Accessed October 13, 2013. "Today, he resides in Lyndhurst, before that Little Ferry, and back in his playing days, when he was making the daily commute to the Meadowlands, Resch nestled into the fabric of everyday life in Ridgewood, which he says, 'made me feel like I was in the heartland of America.'"
Yorio, Kara. "Former Yankee Bobby Richardson signing new book in Ridgewood", The Record, September 18, 2012. Accessed July 30, 2013. "Former Yankee second-baseman Bobby Richardson and his family spent 10 summers living in Ridgewood during his playing career. The village is important to him, a place of some happy memories for a young and growing family."
Levinson, Peter J. "September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle", via Google Books, p. 19. "Ridgewood is another of the upper-middle-class bedroom communities of New York.... Nelson and Leonard lived on the east side of town."
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Accessed October 2, 2013. "Eric Scott Rosengren was born on June 3, 1957, in Ridgewood, New Jersey."
Staff. "Briefing: Politics; Roukema Retiring", The New York Times, November 11, 2001. Accessed January 29, 2011. "Representative Marge Roukema, a leading voice in the Republican Party's moderate wing since her election in 1980, said last week that she would retire after her current term. Ms. Roukema, 72, of Ridgewood, is the longest-serving woman in Congress."
Kent, Spencer. "Henry Rowan, benefactor of Rowan University, dies at 92", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 10, 2015. Accessed December 23, 2017. "Originally from Ridgewood, Rowan studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served in the Army Air Coprs during World War II before starting his own business."
Bob Sall, National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. Accessed November 17, 2017. "Antonio Saldutti (Bob Sall) was born of Dutch-Italian heritage in the town of Ridgewood, New Jersey, in 1908."
Kieran Scott, Teenreads.com. Accessed December 1, 2012. "A Jersey-girl through and through, Kieran grew up in Montvale, New Jersey, and attended Pascack Hills High School where she was a cheerleader, singer, actress and occasionally a student. She attended Rutgers University, graduated with a double-major in English and Journalism and now resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey in her very own bachelorette pad."
Lambert, Bruce. "Irving J. Selikoff Is Dead at 77; TB Researcher Fought Asbestos", The New York Times, May 22, 1992. Accessed November 17, 2017. "Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, the co-discoverer of a treatment for tuberculosis who went on to prove the hazards of asbestos and lead a campaign against its use, died on Wednesday at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 77 years old and lived in Ridgewood."
Leonard, Tom. "Ridgewood teens knew Sparks before her fame ignited", The Record, May 21, 2007. Accessed December 20, 2013. "Her family lived in Ridgewood during the eight seasons her father, Phillippi, played with the Giants. The family moved to Arizona when Phillipi retired."
Amodio, Joseph V. "Fast Chat: Jordin Sparks discusses life on Broadway", Newsday, October 14, 2010. Accessed January 30, 2012. "You used to live out here in the '90s, when your dad, Phillippi Sparks, played cornerback for the New York Giants. What stands out from that time? We lived a few years in Ridgewood, New Jersey. I walked to school. My dad sometimes would say, 'OK, I'm gonna drive you and your brother today.' But instead of school, he'd take us to Giants Stadium."
Litsky, Frank. "Plus: Lacrosse; Princeton to Face Johns Hopkins Next", The New York Times, May 25, 2002. Accessed January 30, 2012. "Syracuse has skilled attackers in the sophomore Mike Powell and the senior Josh Coffman, both from Carthage, N.Y., and the junior Michael Springer of Ridgewood, N.J."
Herzog, Laura. "Actress who uses a wheelchair a likely first for Broadway", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 11, 2015. Accessed October 29, 2017. "Ali Stroker may be the first person who uses a wheelchair to be in a Broadway production, ever. The 28-year-old Ridgewood-raised singer, actress and philanthropist says 'it's the ultimate dream come true' to star in a special production of Spring Awakening – a musical, by Deaf West Theatre, that is also performed in American Sign Language."
Cingrana, Joe. "Ctrl+ALT+Del 'Pick of the Week': Sub Urban - 'Freak' ft. REI AMI", WNYL, June 8, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2021. "Danny Maisonneuve, professionally known as Sub Urban is a 19-year-old visionary singer/songwriter and record producer. Born in Nyack, New York to a Taiwanese mom and a French-Canadian dad, and raised in the suburbs of Ridgewood, New Jersey nearly all of his life, Danny began producing music digitally at the age of 15."
Levin, Jay. "Actor Wayne Tippit dies at 76; longtime Ridgewood resident", The Record, September 4, 2009. Accessed December 20, 2013. "Wayne Tippit, a ruggedly handsome character actor who appeared on television's Melrose Place and in New York stage productions during a career that spanned a half-century, died last Friday in Los Angeles. The former Ridgewood resident was 76."
Staff. "Tarzan of Tarzana", Daily News of Los Angeles, April 22, 1998. Accessed July 27, 2011. "When I was growing up in Ridgewood, NJ, we lived on Van Dien Avenue, which was named after my great-great-great grandfather."
"Don Van Natta Jr.", ESPN. Accessed November 17, 2017. "He was born in Ridgewood, NJ, in 1964 and graduated from Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, NJ and Boston University."
Kobel, Peter. "Percussionist Van Tieghem Hears A Different Drum", Chicago Tribune, August 18, 1987. Accessed October 29, 2012. "Van Tieghem—tall, angular and soft-spoken—grew up in Ridgewood, N.J., and now lives in downtown Manhattan. He played in a number of rock bands in high school and then studied percussion at the Manhattan School of Music."
Staff. "An unusual trio summons its own music", The Star-Ledger, March 26, 2009. Accessed November 4, 2012. "Wagner, of Ridgewood, won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999 for her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion."
Cahillane, Kevin. "Art; Nostalgia, Wearing Stilettos", The New York Times, December 4, 2005. Accessed July 3, 2018. "While pinup girls were notorious for their ample busts, Mr. Ward, who was born in 1919 and lived in Ridgewood most of his life, made their dimensions larger than larger than life."
Weber, Bruce. "Douglas Watt, New York Theater Critic, Dies at 95", The New York Times, October 2, 2009. Accessed July 27, 2011. "Douglas Benjamin Watt was born in the Bronx on Jan. 20, 1914, and he grew up in Hackensack and Ridgewood, N.J. His father was a structural engineer. He sped through high school and entered Cornell University in his middle teens, graduating at 19."
"Selected Works by New Jersey Poets", The New York Times, January 2, 2009. Accessed November 17, 2017. "George Witte 's first collection of poems, The Apparitioners, was published by Three Rail Press in 2005, and his second, Deniability, is coming out this month from Orchises Press. He is editor-in-chief of St. Martin's Press and lives in Ridgewood."
Stiansen, Laura Adams. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel praised by Ridgewood's Michael Zegen for its Emmy wins", The Record, September 18, 2018. Accessed December 20, 2018. "He’s played American mobster 'Bugsy' Siegel in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and a bandit-turned-zombie in The Walking Dead; now he stars as Joel Maisel in the Amazon original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. So, Ridgewood native Michael Zegen may look very familiar."
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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