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September 30, 2025
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THIS WEEK IN LOCAL HISTORY: Demarest’s Street Names Get an Overhaul

May 20, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

The home pictured at above was built on First Street in Demarest, but nowadays it stands on Stelfox Street. That’s because this week 80 years ago, a full 12 streets […]

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: An Explosive Start for Park Ridge

May 13, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE, N.J.—In 1894, citizens met on the second floor of Foresters’ Hall on Kinderkamack Road (opposite Madison Avenue) to cast their votes, 95–49, for Park Ridge to break away […]

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BACK IN TIME: Teens Hit The Road in Haworth

May 13, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

Young girls pose in father’s roadster in this classic Roaring Twenties photo snapped in Haworth. The teenagers are trendy with their cropped locks and headbands, while the little girl (a […]

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BACK IN TIME: The Tenafly Theater

May 13, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

TENAFLY, N.J.—These days people are going to Tenafly’s movie theater to see   “Avengers: Endgame,” but this week back in 1923 local residents packed the house to see a silent […]

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: Cresskill becomes a borough

May 9, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

CRESSKILL, N.J.—Happy birthday, Cresskill! The borough formed on May 11, 1894, 125 years ago this week. The fledgling community was by no means unique—27 Bergen County municipalities formed in the […]

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: Westwood Begins Life as a Borough

May 9, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

Longtime Westwoodians might remember when the building at 313 Broadway was Volz Hardware. But before William Volz opened his store in 1898, the location had been Odd Fellows Meeting Hall […]

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BACK IN TIME: A Sweet Deal For A Guy And His Gal

April 30, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

“Got a date tomorrow night?” asks this advertisement, published April 30, 1957. “Come on over to Dairy Queen for a real treat for you and your gal. Just order any […]

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THIS WEEK IN LOCAL HISTORY: Bus Hurled Through Air In Closter Crash

April 29, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

It’s an incident that until now had been lost to history. But for the people who witnessed the horrifying scene on April 29, 1929  in downtown Closter, it must have […]

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BACK IN TIME: ‘Proud Security For The Woman Who Drives’

April 22, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

We go back 90 years to April 1929 for this advertisement, which saw Dodge marketing to women at a time when it was mostly men behind the wheel. “From the […]

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BACK IN TIME: A Springtime Drive In E.H. Lyon’s ‘Horseless Carriage’

April 16, 2019 Kristin Beuscher

BY KRISTIN BEUSCHEROF NORTHERN VALLEY PRESS ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—Spring weather is finally here! How about a drive?  In 1897, Edward H. Lyon purchased the first car in Englewood, shown above. Local […]

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