Westwood’s Veterans Park was awash in a sea of portraits on Saturday afternoon, Aug, 22. Smiling, youthful faces printed on posters lined the walkways around the bandstand. Among them, musicians, […]
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Westwood’s volunteer firefighters. They were already out at another call on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 1, when a report came in […]
We go back to the winter of 1957 for this vintage view into downtown Tenafly. The photographer is looking north on West Railroad Avenue from the train tracks. The railroad […]
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—A large house stands there today, but in the 1930s the property at 5 Ridgewood Road in the Township of Washington was home to Eggert’s Service Station. […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—Few have heard of it today, but the United States Bronze Powder Works was at one time the largest industry and employer in the Northern Valley. The company operated […]
TENAFL, N.J.—With a modest collection of books to their credit and some space set aside on the third floor of the local grammar school, the Tenafly Library got started 110 […]
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—Years before anyone could go on a florist’s website, browse photos of pre-designed arrangements, and pop in a credit card number, there was a method of ordering that seems pretty foreign […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—In the winter of 1974, a debate between historians and impassioned citizens culminated in a 175-year-old structure being cast out of Closter. The building in question went by a […]
MONTVALE, N.J.—This week 80 years ago, a group of Ku Klux Klan members bound for a meeting in Passaic County’s Midvale accidentally found themselves in the similar-sounding borough of Montvale. […]
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—This week back in 1962, Englewood was in the midst of a battle over de facto racial segregation in schools. According to Englewood officials at the time, the city’s […]
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