This week in local history, “The Hoot” headed to Washington. The trip was for students on the staff of the school’s yearbook (long known as “The Hoot,” reflecting the school’s […]
Situated on Woodcliff Avenue is a reminder of education in the old days. In the midst of the current Woodcliff Middle School campus is a small stone structure that once […]
Fortunately, this one looked a lot worse than it was. It’s been 105 years since this freight wreck took place on the West Shore Railroad line in Haworth on Feb. […]
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, a federal work relief program, provided manual labor jobs to millions of unemployed men in the wake of the Great Depression. One beneficiary of […]
A stranded milkman sought refuge at the nearest dwelling, the Pine Lodge, after he was robbed at gunpoint in the Township of Washington this week 88 years ago. William Porbek, […]
The Haring-Auryansen House at 377 Piermont Road in Closter goes back to the late 1700s, but when this wintry postcard image was captured a century ago it was Hazelhead Kennels. […]
WESTWOOD, N.J.—You’re familiar with the classic “dinner and a movie” night out. But what about a dinner table and a movie? This week back in 1929, two Westwood businesses announced […]
This week we look back at The Milestone restaurant and bar in Englewood Cliffs, were many a New Year’s bash took place in the World War II era and post-war […]
“There are two good places to eat—home and here.” That was the motto of Zinke’s Restaurant on Tappan Road in Norwood, shown above as it looked in the 1920s. The […]
BY KRISTIN BEUSCHEROF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS Local lawmen guessed it might be the work of “hoboes” when three houses in Norwood were burglarized in the early morning hours of Dec. […]
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