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Fair Lawn, New Jersey Fair Lawn is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 31,637. As of 2007[update], the Census Bureau estimated that the borough had a population of 30,976.Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, as 'Fairlawn', from portions of Saddle River Township. The name was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker's estate home, that was built in 1865 and later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as 'Fair Lawn' Borough.Radburn, one of the first planned communities in the United States, is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn, and was founded in 1929 as 'a town for the motor age'. Geography Fair Lawn is located at 40°56′02″N 74°07′00″W / 40.933943°N 74.116711°W / 40.933943; -74.116711 (40.933943, -74.116711).According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 5.2 square miles (13.5 km2), of which, 5.1 square miles (13.2 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.1 km2) of it (0.96%) is water. History In its earliest days (and as late as 1791), Fair Lawn was known as Slooterdam: a Dutch word denoting a native-American weir used to trap fish on the Passaic River. Just north of the weir is a short stretch of Fair Lawn's Wagaraw Road, named for the Lenape term meaning 'low country where the river bends'. Fair Lawn was named after the estate (or villa) built in 1865 by David Acker, a prosperous New York merchant, which he named 'Fair Lawn'; it faced what is now Fair Lawn Avenue. The home became the borough's municipal building, but it was eventually torn down. A senior-citizen center was built where it once stood. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 31,637 people, 11,806 households, and 8,901 families residing in the borough. The population density was 6,121.0 people per square mile (2,362.7/km2). There were 12,006 housing units at an average density of 2,322.9/sq mi (896.6/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 91.54% White, 0.74% African American, 0.04% Native American, 4.92% Asian, 1.37% from other races, and 1.38% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.51% of the population.As of the 2000 Census, 21.7% of Fair Lawn residents were of Italian ancestry. Fair Lawn also has a high Russian Jewish population. As of the 2000 Census, 10.1% of Fair Lawn residents identified themselves as being of Russian ancestry, the highest percentage of any municipality in New Jersey with more than 1,000 residents identifying their ancestry. More recently, there has been an influx in the Chinese American, Korean American, Filipino American, Japanese American, and Asian Indian populations as well.There were 11,806 households out of which 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.5% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.6% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.12.In the borough the population was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.7 males.According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the borough was $90,124, and the median income for a family was $103,809. Males had a median income of $56,798 versus $41,300 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $32,273. About 2.6% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.7% of those under age 18 and 6.9% of those age 65 or over. Local government Fair Lawn operates under a Council-Manager (Plan E of the Faulkner Act) form of New Jersey municipal government by a five-member Borough Council. Members of the Borough Council serve four-year terms in office, and are elected in partisan elections in odd-numbered years on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election every other year. All policy making power is concentrated in the council. The mayor is selected at a reorganization meeting held after each election by the council from among its members, and presides over its meetings with no separate policy-making power. The manager is appointed by the council to serve as the municipal chief executive and administrative official.Members of the Borough Council are Mayor Joseph Tedeschi (D, term ends December 31, 2011), Jeanne Baratta (R, 2009), Lisa Swain (D, 2011) Steve Weinstein (D, 2011) and Ed Trawinski (R, 2009).In elections held on November 6, 2007, voters filled three seats for four-year terms on the borough council. Democrats swept all three posts, with incumbents Steven Weinstein (3,573 votes) and Joseph Tedeschi (3,354) winning re-election, joined by running mate Lisa Swain (3,405). Falling short were the Republicans Michael Roney (2,928), Lisa Yourman (2,818) and John Gil (2,812), as well as independent candidate Allan Caan (257). Democrats will retain their 3-2 margin on the 2008 council.Republicans Baratta and Trawinski received approximately 54% of the vote in November 2005 (defeating Democrats David L. Ganz and Allan Caan) despite the heavy Democratic registration and the borough's landslide for Governor Jon Corzine. Moreover, Councilman Joseph Tedeschi is a former Republican and an avowed 'traditional, conservative' Democrat.Standard Borough Council meetings are televised on local cable TV when held in the Council chambers in the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. Work sessions, where laws are discussed and prepared for adoption, are not usually televised.Fair Lawn has an all-volunteer fire department. The department has four stations, with Company 1 on George Street, Company 2 at Route 208 South (before Maple Avenue Bridge), Company 3 located at Corner Plaza Road / Rosalie Street and Company 4 on Radburn Road. Federal, state and county representation Fair Lawn is part of New Jersey's 38th Legislative District and is in the Ninth Congressional District.New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District is represented by Steve Rothman (D, Fair Lawn). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).38th District of the New Jersey Legislature, which is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Robert M. Gordon (D, Fair Lawn) and in the New Jersey General Assembly by Joan Voss (D, Fort Lee) and Connie Wagner (D, Paramus). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach).Bergen County's County Executive is Dennis McNerney (D). The executive, along with the seven-member Board of Chosen Freeholders administer all county business. As of 2010[update], Bergen County's Freeholders are Chairman James M. Carroll (D, Demarest), Vice-Chairwoman Elizabeth Calabrese (D, Wallington), John Driscoll, Jr. (R, Paramus), David L. Ganz (D, Fair Lawn), Robert G. Hermansen (R, Mahwah), Bernadette P. McPherson (D, Rutherford) and Tomas J. Padilla (D, Park Ridge). Other countywide elected officials are Sheriff Leo P. McGuire (D), Surrogate Court Judge Michael R. Dressler (D, Cresskill) and County Clerk Kathleen Donovan (R, Rutherford). Politics As of April 1, 2006, out of a 2004 Census estimated population of 31,613 in Fair Lawn, there were 19,673 registered voters (62.2% of the population, vs. 55.4% in all of Bergen County). Of registered voters, 5,206 (26.5% vs. 20.7% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 2,773 (14.1% vs. 19.2% countywide) were registered as Republicans and 11,685 (59.4% vs. 60.1% countywide) were registered as Undeclared. There were nine voters registered to other parties.On the national level, Fair Lawn voters lean toward the Democratic Party. In the 2008 presidential election Democrat Barack Obama won 52% of the vote defeating Republican John McCain who received 45%. In the 2004 Presidential Election, Democrat John Kerry received 54% of the vote here, defeating Republican George W. Bush, who received around 45%. These are unusual results in that Kerry did better than Obama did; nationally, the opposite was true. Education The Fair Lawn Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The district consists of nine schools. Schools in the district (with 2006-07 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics.) are six K-5 elementary schools — J.A. Forrest (294 students), Lyncrest (230), Milnes (399), Radburn (377), Warren Point (445) and Westmoreland (288) — two middle schools for grades 6-8 — Memorial Middle School (456) and Thomas Jefferson Middle School (706) — and Fair Lawn High School (1,539) for grades 9-12. The high school itself is well regarded for its music department and other academic departments. Specific highlights include the top computer science program in the state throughout the 80's and 90's, including several American Computer Science League (ACSL) victories against regional magnet schools (1980-1981,1981-1982, 1983-1984 (Senior division 2nd place, junior division 1st place), 1984-1985 (Junior division 1st place), 1985-1986 (senior division 2nd place, junior division 1st place), 1986-1987 (senior division 2nd place), 1988-1989 (Senior division 3rd place, Junior division 1st place). FLHS also won the first two Junior Engineering Technical Society's (JETS) National Engineering and Design Challenge (NEDC) in 2002 and 2003. Mandarin Chinese language instruction was introduced in 2007 in the Fair Lawn Public Schools district. Transportation Fair Lawn has several main roads crossing through it forming a semi-3x3 grid. Saddle River Road, Plaza Road, and River Road (County Route 507) run North-South, Broadway, Morlot Avenue and Fair Lawn Avenue run East-West, and Route 208 runs Northwest-Southeast.Broadway becomes Route 4 in Elmwood Park to the west and eventually Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard in Paterson. To the East, it becomes Route 4 going into Paramus and is less than 10 miles (16 km) from the George Washington Bridge.Fair Lawn Avenue is considered the borough's main street, containing its Borough Hall, Police Station, Public Library, and Community School. The road goes west over the Passaic River into Paterson, and east into Paramus where it becomes Century Road.The intersection of Fair Lawn Avenue and Plaza Road form what could be considered a 'town center', with several shopping plazas, and the Radburn train station all within walking distance. Other commercial areas include Broadway and River Road, but neither is particularly amenable to pedestrian traffic despite attempts by local business owners to make them so.Route 208 has its southern terminus in Fair Lawn, and goes through the middle of the borough from the northwest to the southeast, where it eventually merges with Broadway to become Route 4 not far from Paramus. Taken the other direction, Route 208 flows northwest to Interstate 287 in Oakland.Saddle River Road goes through the eastern side of Fair Lawn and into Saddle Brook, where it provides a link to both the Garden State Parkway and Interstate 80.Route 20 southbound becomes Route 21 which separates Fair Lawn from Paterson and northbound Hawthorne.Fair Lawn is known for its ease of use on trains, with two convenient locations. One stop is at Broadway and the second is Radburn. It connects to Hoboken at the Secaucus Junction which also connects to Pennsylvania Station in New York. Fair Lawn also has a few bus lines that run through the town. The 164 bus, for example, takes one to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.Fair Lawn uses a somewhat unusual street address numbering system. Instead of an address being, for example, 55 Some Street, most Fair Lawn addresses are given hyphenated numbers, such as 10-13 Some Street. This numbering system is also used in Queens, New York City. Exceptions to this numbering system generally exist on the Glen Rock, Hawthorne and Saddle Brook sides of Fair Lawn and within the Radburn development. The first numbers (before the dash) correspond to block-distances from Broadway (on streets that run North-South) and to the numbered streets in the borough (example: 2nd Street, 17th Street, etc.) on the streets that run East-West; with the highest numbers being in the low 40's, and the lowest numbers being 0-30, etc.Fair Lawn is served by the Radburn and Broadway train stations on the New Jersey Transit Bergen County Line. The stations offer service to Hoboken Terminal, with connections at Secaucus Junction to Penn Station in midtown Manhattan and to most other New Jersey Transit train lines. New Jersey Transit buses include the 144, 148, 160, 164 and 196 routes to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan; the, 171, 175 to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal; and the 746, 758 and 770 lines, offering local service. Sports Fair Lawn also has one of the original organized Street Hockey/DekHockey programs in the state. Managed and run through its Recreation Department, this hockey program started officially in 1976. Originally played in the parking lot of the Radburn Grange Hall, it moved to an official rink in 1977 at Memorial Park. The program serves children aged 8–18, and runs during the winter months concluding early spring. Over the years the program grew to accommodate three separate rinks. The Fair Lawn Flyers competed in the first national street hockey championships in 1976 in Leominster, Massachusetts. In subsequent years Fair Lawn sent teams to both the regional and national tournaments (as teams known as Fair Lawn Flyers and Fair Lawn Chiefs). Two of the three Fair Lawn Dekhockey rinks are named after Joe Gambucci and Bredehorst; both volunteered in multiple capacities for the league. Joe Gambucci was one of the original volunteers to start the program.[citation needed]. More notoriously, Fair Lawn High School's Varsity Soccer team had one of the longest losing streaks in the state, going a stretch of 56 games without a victory (0-55-1) from 1988-1992. Popular culture In the 1976 filmTaxi Driver, when Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is talking to a Secret Service agent, he gives his address as 154 Hopper Avenue, Fair Lawn, New Jersey. There is a Hopper Avenue in Fair Lawn, but 154 Hopper Avenue does not exist. In the 1996 Mel Gibson movieRansom, Fair Lawn is seen when Gibson is told to turn from Route 4 ontoSaddle River Road(Fair Lawn) and into the rock quarry (which is actually located inNorth Haledon, New Jersey). A few days worth of filming was also done inside a home on Saddle River Road, but those scenes were cut. In the 2004 movieTaxi, Fair Lawn can be seen on the map that Detective Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is reading. The map is fake, since it shows a fictional uncompleted highway off theGarden State ParkwayinOradell. The scene in which the robbers jump off the uncompleted skyway was not filmed in New Jersey. In the movieCasino, two scenes were shot at the Fair Lawn Fire Dept. Company 3: a scene in which a female reporter talks about the mob members and the scene which immediately follows.[citation needed] At the beginning of the critically acclaimedPine Barrensepisode of the television seriesThe Sopranos,Mob boss Tony Soprano tellsPaulie Walnutsand protegeChristopher Moltisantito visit a Russian mobster, Valery, in Fair Lawn. Although Paulie and Christopher are shown visiting Valery's Fair Lawn apartment, no scenery is shown besides the nondescript parking lot in front of the apartment and the inside of the apartment itself.[citation needed]A scene from the Sopranos was filmed in front of the historic Radburn Building. A 2007 episode of 'Kitchen Nightmares' featured an Italian Restaurant in Fair Lawn calledCampania. In a scene in the 2005 movie 'The Thing about My Folks,' a car breaks down and the father says that he is just a salesman from Fair Lawn, NJ. Fair Lawn is mentioned in the 2010 buddy-cop comedyThe Other Guys, starring Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell. Noted residents Notable current and former residents of Fair Lawn include:Christian LiviSealand Secretary of Defence Harrison Bernstein, assistant strength and conditioning coach for theWashington Redskinsof theNational Football League. Steve Bornstein(born 1952), current head of theNFL Network. Eugene EmondWWII B-17 Pilot of Man O War II and Officer of the New York Federal Reserve Nicholas Felice(born 1927), served in theNew Jersey General Assemblyand was mayor of Fair Lawn. Jim Finn(born 1976), football player with theNew York Giants. David Gewirtz, CNN columnist, cyberterrorism advisor, and leading presidential scholar grew up in Fair Lawn. Boris Gulko(born 1947),International Grandmasterand former winner of theU.S. Chess Championship. Bobby Jones, 1960s singer.[citation needed] Jim Jones(born 1976), rapper; Known for his song We Fly High 2006.[citation needed] Lee Meredith(born 1947 as Judi-Lee Sauls), actress who appeared inThe Producers,Hello Down ThereandThe Sunshine Boys. Millie Perkins(born 1938), actress, who played the title role in her first film as the star ofThe Diary of Anne Frank. Ron Perranoski(born 1936), MLB pitcher from 1961-1973. Billy Price, soul singer. Maurice Purtill(1916-1994) drummer for theGlenn Miller Orchestra,Tommy Dorsey Orchestraand various otherbig bands.[citation needed] Steve Rothman(born 1952), Congressman representingNew Jersey's 9th congressional district. Charlie Schlatter(born 1966), actor. Regina Spektor(born 1980), singer; attended Fair Lawn High School RabbiBenjamin Yudin, noted scholar and lecturer at theRabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary(RIETS) and rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Torah. Donna Vivino, stage and screen actress), currently performing the starring role ofElphaba, in the Broadway National Tour production ofWicked. Historic sites Fair Lawn is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places:G. V. H. Berdan House- 1219 River Rd. (added 1983) Richard J. Berdan House- 24-07 Fair Lawn Ave. (added 1983) Cadmus-Folly House- 19-21 Fair Lawn Ave. (added 1983) Peter Garretson House- 4-02 River Rd. (added 1974) Naugle House- 42-49 Dunkerhook Rd. (added 1983) Radburn- Irregular pattern between Radburn Rd. and Erie RR. tracks (added 1975) Radburn Station- Pollitt Dr. (added 1984) Jacob Vanderbeck, Jr., House- 41-25 Dunderhook Rd. (added 1983)