Hackensack, New Jersey

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}}Template:Main other Hackensack is the most populous municipality and the county seat of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.<ref name=LWD2020/><ref name=CountyMap>New Jersey County Map, New Jersey Department of State. Accessed December 22, 2022.</ref> The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but has informally been known as Hackensack since at least the 18th century.<ref>New Jersey 1793, Historic Map Works. Accessed January 30, 2018.</ref> As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 46,030,<ref name=Census2020/><ref name=LWD2020/> its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 3,020 (+7.0%) from the 2010 census count of 43,010,<ref name=Census2010/><ref name=LWD2010/> which in turn reflected an increase of 333 (+0.8%) from the 42,677 counted in the 2000 census.<ref>Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed May 1, 2023.</ref>

An inner suburb of New York City, Hackensack is located approximately Template:Convert northwest of Midtown Manhattan and about Template:Convert from the George Washington Bridge.<ref name=Thinking1984/> From a number of locations, including portions of Prospect Avenue, the New York City skyline can be seen.<ref name=Thinking1984>Rondinaro, Gene. "If You're Thinking Of Living In: Hackensack", The New York Times, March 18, 1984. Accessed December 13, 2011. "There are other signs of renewed health. New high-rise residential buildings with exceptional views of the Manhattan skyline have sprung up along Prospect Avenue in the Heights area to the west."</ref>

The Metropolitan Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University straddles the Hackensack River in both Hackensack and Teaneck. Hackensack is also the home of the former New Jersey Naval Museum and the World War II submarine USS Ling. Astronaut Wally Schirra is perhaps Hackensack's most famous native son.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The city has diverse neighborhoods and land uses located close to one another. Within its borders are the Hackensack University Medical Center, a residential high-rise district about a mile long (along Prospect Avenue between Beech Street and Passaic Street), suburban neighborhoods of single-family houses, stately older homes on acre-plus lots, older two-family neighborhoods, large garden apartment complexes, industrial areas, the Bergen County Jail, a tidal river, Hackensack River County Park, Borg's Woods Nature Preserve, various city parks, large office buildings, a major college campus, the Bergen County Court House, a vibrant small-city downtown district, and various small neighborhood business districts.<ref>Cheslow, Jerry. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Hackensack, N.J.; After Long Decline, Downtown Rebounds", The New York Times, May 3, 1998. Accessed December 13, 2011.</ref>

History

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The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.'<ref>Wright, Kevin W. The Indigenous Population of Bergen County Template:Webarchive, Bergen County Historical Society. Accessed June 30, 2011. "Achkinckeshacky or Acking-sack, (later Hackensack) is an approximation of Achsinnigeu-haki, meaning stony ground."</ref> A representation of Chief Oratam of the Achkinhenhcky appears on the Hackensack municipal seal. The most common explanation is that the city was named for the Native American tribe,<ref>The Origin of New Jersey Place Names: H, GetNJ.com. Accessed July 2, 2007.</ref><ref>Cheslow, Jerry. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Hackensack, N.J.; After Long Decline, Downtown Rebounds", The New York Times, May 3, 1998. Accessed August 26, 2018. "Hackensack is named for the Achkinhenhcky branch of the Leni Lenape Indians, who traded with Dutch settlers along the Hackensack River as far back as the 1660s. The portrait of their chief, Oratam, who negotiated a treaty with English and Dutch settlers in 1690, appears on the municipal seal."</ref> though other sources attribute it to a Native American word variously translated as meaning "hook mouth", "stream that unites with another on low ground", "on low ground" or "land of the big snake",<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 31, 2015.</ref><ref>Gannett, Henry. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, p. 146. United States Government Printing Office, 1905. Accessed August 31, 2015.</ref> while another version described as "more colorful than probable" attributes the name to an inn called the "Hock and Sack".<ref>Herman, Jennifer New Jersey Encyclopedia, p. 281. State History Publications, 2008. Template:ISBN. Accessed August 31, 2015.</ref>

Settlement by the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland on the west banks of the Hudson River across from New Amsterdam (present-day lower Manhattan) began in the 1630s at Pavonia, eventually leading to the establishment of Bergen (at today's Bergen Square in Jersey City) in 1660.<ref>Template:Usurped, Jersey City Past and Present, New Jersey City University, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 20, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

Oratam, sachem of the Lenni Lenape, deeded the land along mid-Hackensack River to the Dutch in 1665. The area was soon taken by the English in 1667, but kept its Dutch name. Philip Cartaret, governor of what became the proprietary colony of East Jersey granted land to Captain John Berry in the area of Achter Kol<ref>Historical marker of Achter Col "colony" Template:Webarchive, Historical Marker Database. Accessed December 8, 2013.</ref> and soon after took up residence and called it "New Barbadoes," after having resided on the island of Barbados. In 1666, a deed was confirmed for the Template:Convert tract that had been given earlier by Oratem to Sarah Kiersted in gratitude for her work as emissary and interpreter.<ref>MacLean, Maggie. "Sarah Kiersted", History of American Women, March 10, 2008. Accessed December 28, 2016. "Painting depicts Sarah Kiersted, a Dutch woman in New Netherlands who learned the Lenape language and served Chief Oratam as a translator in his negotiations with Dutch colonists. She was rewarded by him in 1666 with a gift of 2260 acres of land on the Hackensack River."</ref><ref>Nottle, Diane. "Do You Know These Women?", The New York Times, March 1, 1998. Accessed December 8, 2013. "Even before the Elizabeths, a Dutch housewife named Sarah Kiersted was learning the language of the local Lenape Indians, possibly as early as the 1640s. She became a channel of communication between Dutch settlers and the Lenape Chief Oratam, and for her services the chief granted her almost 2,300 acres – comprising all of Ridgefield Park and sections of Teaneck and Bogota – in 1666."</ref> Other grants were given at the English Neighborhood.<ref>Poppino/Popenoe/Popnoe& Allied Families Template:Webarchive, September 15, 2008. Accessed December 18, 2011.</ref><ref>Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs: Manuscript Group 944, Edsall Family (English Neighborhood, NJ) Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Historical Society. Accessed December 18, 2011.</ref><ref>Template:Usurped, Ridgefield Online, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 18, 2012. Accessed July 31, 2014. "In 1675, Ridgefield was known as the English Neighborhood, covering an area of about 10 square miles from the Hudson River on the east to the Hackensack River on the west, Englewood on the north and Hudson County on the south."</ref>

In 1675, the East Jersey Legislature established the administrative districts Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth. In 1683, Bergen (along with the three other counties) was officially recognized as an independent county by the Provincial Assembly.<ref>Template:Usurped, Bergen County Technical Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of January 26, 2007. Accessed June 1, 2015.</ref> The seal of Bergen County bearing this date includes an image of an agreement between the European settlers and the Native Americans.<ref>History of Bergen County, Bergen County, New Jersey. Accessed April 9, 2024. "This seal accentuates the county’s founding year, 1683, in scrollwork between a Dutch settler-trader and Indian shaking hands on the banks of the Hudson beneath the Palisades."</ref>

New Barbadoes Township, together with Acquackanonk Township, were formed by Royal charter on October 31, 1693.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 78-79 re Hackensack, p. 82 re New Barbadoes. Accessed September 10, 2012</ref><ref>Edited by Harvey, Cornelius Burnham. "Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties New Jersey: Introduction Of Township Governments", Originally published in 1900. Accessed December 8, 2013.</ref>

In 1700, the village of Hackensack was little more than the area around Main Street from the Courthouse to around Anderson Street. New Barbadoes Township included what is now Maywood, Rochelle Park, Paramus and River Edge, along with those portions of Oradell that are west of the Hackensack River. These areas were all sparsely populated and consisted of farm fields, woods and swamplands. The few roads that existed then included the streets now known as Kinderkamack Road, Paramus Road/Passaic Street and Essex Street. The southernmost portions of what is now Hackensack were not part of New Barbadoes Township at that time and were acquired in the late 1800s.<ref name=Story/>

The neighborhood that came to be known as the village of Hackensack (today the area encompassing Bergen County's municipal buildings in Hackensack) was a part of Essex County until 1710, when Bergen County, by royal decree of Queen Anne of Great Britain, was enlarged and the Township of New Barbadoes was removed from Essex County and added to Bergen County.<ref>Lang, Arnold. "Bergen County's Townships and Municipalities – Part I", The Archivist, May 1999, Genealogical Society of Bergen County. Accessed December 13, 2011.</ref>

In 1710, the village of Hackensack (in the newly formed Township of New Barbadoes) was designated as being more centrally located and more easily reached by the majority of the Bergen County's inhabitants and, hence, was chosen as the county seat of Bergen County, as it remains today. The earliest records of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders date back to 1715, at which time agreement was made to build a courthouse and jail complex, which was completed in 1716.<ref>Discovering History, Bergen County, New Jersey. Accessed Ocgtober 2, 2019. "The oldest records of the Bergen County Board of Freeholders and Justices are dated May 19, 1715. At that meeting, it was decided to build a combined courthouse and jail which was erected on Hackensack's historic Green in 1716."</ref>

During the American Revolutionary War, George Washington headquartered in the village of Hackensack in November 1776 during the retreat from Fort Lee via New Bridge Landing and camped on 'The Green' across from the First Dutch Reformed Church on November 20, 1776. A raid by British forces against Hackensack on March 23, 1780, resulted in the destruction by fire of the original courthouse structure.<ref>Template:Usurped, Representative Steve Rothman, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 7, 2012. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

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Article in The Street Railway Review of July 1900

The Hackensack Improvement Commission was incorporated by an Act of the state legislature approved on April 1, 1868, within New Barbadoes township and including the village of Hackensack, with authority to develop sewers and other improvements in Hackensack.<ref>Mary G. Bakman, et. al. v. The Hackensack Commission, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court and, at law, in the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New Jersey, Volume 70, pp. 500–502. Accessed December 13, 2011.</ref>

The New Jersey Legislature passed the Township School Act in 1894, under which each village, borough, town, or city in New Jersey was delegated responsibility for its own public schools through the office of the county superintendent. Hackensack established a local board of education in 1894, as required by the new law, which took over operation of schools located in the township and established Hackensack High School.<ref>History of the Hackensack Board of Education Template:Webarchive. Accessed December 13, 2011.</ref> The 1894 act allowed local residents, by petition, to change municipal boundaries at will, setting off fearsome political battles statewide.

Portions of the township had been taken to form Harrington Township (June 22, 1775), Lodi Township (March 1, 1826), Midland Township (March 7, 1871) and Little Ferry (September 20, 1894).<ref name=Story/> After these departures, secessions, and de-annexations, all that was left of New Barbadoes Township was the village of Hackensack and its surrounding neighborhoods of Fairmount, Red Hill and Cherry Hill. In 1896, New Barbadoes acquired a portion of Lodi Township covering an area south of Essex Street from the bend of Essex Street to the Maywood border. That same year the Hackensack Improvement commission was abolished and the City of Hackensack and New Barbadoes Township became coterminous.<ref>Chapter 138: A further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Hackensack improvement commission," approved April first, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, extending the boundaries thereof., Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, Session of 1896, p. 196. New Jersey Legislature, 1896. Accessed December 13, 2011.</ref><ref>Wright, Kevin. "Punkin Duster Finds The Woodchuck Borough: A Centennial Review of Bergen County Borough Fever 1894–95" Template:Webarchive, Bergen County Historical Society. Accessed December 13, 2011. "In February 1896, the Legislature annexed a portion of Lodi Township to New Barbadoes so as to place Polifly Road as far south as the Lodi Branch Railroad within the boundaries of the Hackensack Improvement Commission. Scuttlebutt had it that the 'chief purpose [of the annexation] is, as appears on the surface, to secure improvement of Polifly road.' By further act of the legislature, the Township of New Barbadoes became conterminous in boundaries with the city of Hackensack and the New Barbadoes Township Committee was abolished in favor of government by the Hackensack Improvement Board of Commissioners."</ref>

The final parcel lost by New Barbadoes Township was the northeastern corner of what is now Little Ferry, which was incorporated in September 1894.<ref>Bergen County New Jersey Municipalities, Dutch Door Genealogy. Accessed December 13, 2011. "Little Ferry became a Bergen County, N.J. borough organized by referendum September 18, 1894 and incorporated September 20, 1894 from area taken from Lodi and New Barbardoes Townships."</ref>

An act of the State Legislature incorporated the Fairmount section of New Barbadoes with the Hackensack Improvement Commission, and eliminated New Barbadoes Township as a political entity. On November 21, 1921, based on the results of a referendum held on November 8, 1921, New Barbadoes Township received its charter to incorporate as a city and officially took on its name "Hackensack," a name derived from its original inhabitants, the Lenni Lenape, who named it "Ackingsah-sack".<ref name=Story/>

In 1933, Hackensack adopted the Manager form of government under the terms of the 1923 Municipal Manager Law, with five Council persons all elected at-large and a mayor selected by the council from among its members.<ref>Historic Meeting Minutes Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. Accessed August 30, 2017. "The City's form of government was changed by referendum vote on May 23, 1933, to the Municipal Manager Plan. This called for the appointment of a professional manager and a five-person Council elected at large. The first new Council was elected June 20, 1933."</ref>

The Sears location on Main Street, which opened on October 27, 1932, and was the last freestanding Sears in the state of New Jersey, closed on September 12, 2020.<ref>Accardi, Nicolette. "Sears will have just 1 department store left in N.J. after 2 more to permanently close", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, July 1, 2020. Accessed December 27, 2020.</ref><ref name=TAP2020>Albrizio, Lianna. "Hackensack Sears Poised To Be Next in New Jersey To Shutter", TAPinto Hackensack, July 2, 2020. Accessed December 27, 2020. "When Sears first opened in Hackensack on October 27, 1932 at 436 Main Street, what had become the city's landmark department store decades later was the largest of its kind in all of Bergen County, according to the county's historic site survey, and its population was almost half of what it is today."</ref>

Geography

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Aerial view of Hackensack

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 4.35 square miles (11.27 km²), including 4.19 square miles (10.86 km²) of land and 0.16 square miles (0.41 km²) of water (3.63%).<ref name=CensusArea/><ref name=GR1 /><ref name=CensusArea/><ref name="GR1" />

The city is bordered by the Bergen County municipalities of Bogota, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Lodi, Maywood, Paramus, Ridgefield Park, River Edge, South Hackensack, Teaneck and Teterboro.<ref>Areas touching Hackensack, MapIt. Accessed March 25, 2020.</ref><ref>Bergen County Map of Municipalities, Bergen County, New Jersey. Accessed March 25, 2020.</ref><ref>New Jersey Municipal Boundaries, New Jersey Department of Transportation. Accessed November 15, 2019.</ref>

There are many houses of historic value, and some of these were identified in the 1990 Master Plan. The city does not have any registered historic districts, or any restrictions on preserving the historic facade in any portions of the city. Areas considered suburban single-family residential neighborhoods account for about one-third of the city's area, mostly along its western side.

Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the city include Fairmount and North Hackensack.<ref>Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed May 21, 2015.</ref>

Demographics

Ethnic diversity

As the initial destination for many immigrants to Bergen County from around the globe, Hackensack's ethnic composition has become exceptionally diverse. As of 2013, approximately 38.9% of the population were foreign-born. In addition, 2.5% were born in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico or abroad to American parents. Over half, 51.7%, of the population over the age of five speak only English in their household, while 32.5% of the population speak Spanish at home.<ref>DP02: Selected Social Characteristics In The United States from the 2009–2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates for Hackensack city, New Jersey Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 1, 2015.</ref> The South Asian and East Asian populations have increased most rapidly in Hackensack since 2000, with nearly 2,000 Indian Americans, over 1,000 Filipino Americans, and over 600 Korean Americans represented in the 2010 United States Census.<ref name=HackensackQL>Hackensack city, New Jersey QuickLinks Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed June 1, 2015</ref> Hackensack's Hispanic population has also risen rapidly, to over 15,000 in 2010;<ref name=HackensackQL/> Ecuadoreans, Dominicans, and Colombians have become the top Hispanic groups in northern Hackensack.<ref>Green, Jeff. Template:Usurped, The Record, June 12, 2015, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 11, 2016. August 30, 2017. "Ecuadoreans, Dominicans and Colombians are the top Hispanic groups in the area of northern Hackensack where the neighborhood is situated."</ref> The Black population dropped as a percentage, although minimally in absolute numbers between 2000 and 2010.<ref name=HackensackQL/> The city lost approximately 10% of its White population between 2000 and 2010, which has stabilized and resumed growth since 2010 and has remained substantial, at over 20,000 in 2010.<ref name=HackensackQL/> The city has also witnessed greatly increasing diversity in its non-Hispanic white segment, with large numbers of Eastern Europeans, Eurasians, Central Asians, and Arabic immigrants offsetting the loss in Hackensack's earlier established Italian American, Irish American, and German American populations.

2010 census

The 2010 United States census counted 43,010 people, 18,142 households, and 9,706 families in the city. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 19,375 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup was 46.67% (20,072) White, 24.44% (10,511) Black or African American, 0.56% (241) Native American, 10.30% (4,432) Asian, 0.02% (10) Pacific Islander, 13.59% (5,844) from other races, and 4.42% (1,900) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 35.31% (15,186) of the population.<ref name=Census2010/>

Of the 18,142 households, 23.2% had children under the age of 18; 34.1% were married couples living together; 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present and 46.5% were non-families. Of all households, 39.3% were made up of individuals and 10.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 3.11.<ref name=Census2010/>

18.7% of the population were under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 34.6% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.5 years. For every 100 females, the population had 98.0 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 96.4 males.<ref name=Census2010/>

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $57,676 (with a margin of error of +/− $3,577) and the median family income was $66,911 (+/− $5,433). Males had a median income of $45,880 (+/− $4,012) versus $42,059 (+/− $1,681) for females. The per capita income for the city was $32,036 (+/− $1,809). About 8.9% of families and 10.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.2% of those under age 18 and 11.7% of those age 65 or over.<ref>Template:Usurped, United States Census Bureau. Accessed April 3, 2012.</ref>

Same-sex couples headed 145 households in 2010, an increase from the 112 counted in 2000.<ref>Lipman, Harvy; and Sheingold, Dave. Template:Usurped, The Record, August 14, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 3, 2013. Accessed July 24, 2013.</ref>

2000 census

As of the 2000 United States census,<ref name="GR2" /> there were 42,677 people, 18,113 households, and 9,545 families residing in the city. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 18,945 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup of the city was 52.61% White, 24.65% African American, 0.45% Native American, 7.45% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 9.71% from other races, and 5.08% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25.92% of the population.<ref name=Census2000>Census 2000 Profiles of Demographic / Social / Economic / Housing Characteristics for Hackensack city, New Jersey Template:Webarchive, United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 10, 2012.</ref><ref name=Census2000SF1>Template:Usurped, United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 10, 2012.</ref>

There were 18,113 households, out of which 21.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.8% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.3% were non-families. 39.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 3.08.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>

In the city, the population was spread out, with 18.2% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 38.4% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>

The median income for a household in the city was $49,316, and the median income for a family was $56,953. Males had a median income of $39,636 versus $32,911 for females. The per capita income for the city was $26,856. About 6.8% of families and 9.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.1% of those under age 18 and 10.3% of those age 65 or over.<ref name=Census2000/><ref name=Census2000SF1/>

Parks and recreation

Borg's Woods Nature Preserve is a wooded municipal park covering Template:Convert.<ref>Borg's Woods Nature Preserve, Bergen County, New Jersey. Accessed January 9, 2025. "This 15-acre, neighborhood park is comprised of a large, forested canopy, a thick understory, some wetland vegetation, and a series of simple trails."</ref><ref>Borg's Woods Nature Preserve, Hackensack Now. Accessed January 9, 2025.</ref> Efforts to create the park date back to a 1979 study that showed that the city had less parkland available to residents than specified by benchmarks.<ref>Smith, Holly. "Study urges Borg Woods as park", The Record, June 8, 1979. Accessed January 9, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "Hackensack should by 16 acres of undeveloped land in the northwest section of the city property known as Borg Woods and turn it into a public park, says a new environmental study. The proposal is contained in a 265-page document on "Environmental Resources Inventory" (ERI) for Hackensack, sponsored by the Bergen County Community Action Program and funded through a federal grant."</ref>

Government

Local government

Hackensack operates under the 1923 Municipal Manager Law form of New Jersey municipal government. The city is one of seven municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government.<ref>Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey, Rutgers University Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The City Council is comprised of five members who are elected to four-year terms on a concurrent basis in a non-partisan election held every four years in May.<ref name=DataBook>2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 157.</ref><ref>"Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey", p. 9. Rutgers University Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> This form of government separates policy making (the work of the mayor and city council) from the execution of policy (the work of the city manager). This maintains professional management and a Citywide perspective through: nonpartisan election, at-large representation, concentration of executive responsibility in the hands of a professional manager accountable to the Mayor and Council, concentration of policy making power in one body: a five-person Mayor and Council.<ref>Mayor and City Council Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. Accessed March 25, 2020. "The City operates under the New Jersey Municipal Manager Law of 1923. This form of government separates policy making (the work of the Mayor and City Council) from the execution of policy (the work of the City Manager)."</ref> In the several decades in which the City has used the Municipal Manager form of government, Hackensack has had only nine City Managers.

Template:As of, the mayor of the City of Hackensack is John P. Labrosse Jr., whose term of office as mayor ends June 30, 2025, along with those of all other councilmembers. The other members of the Hackensack City Council are Deputy Mayor Deputy Mayor Kathleen Canestrino, Leonardo "Leo" Battaglia, Gerard Carroll and Stephanie Von Rudenborg.<ref name=Council>Mayor and City Council, City of Hackensack. Accessed June 4, 2024. "The City operates under the New Jersey Municipal Manager Law of 1923. This form of government separates policy making (the work of the Mayor and City Council) from the execution of policy (the work of the City Manager). This maintains professional management and a City-wide perspective through: nonpartisan election, at large representation, concentration of executive responsibility in the hands of a professional manager accountable to the Mayor and Council, concentration of policy making power in one body - a five-person Mayor and Council."</ref><ref>2024 Municipal Data Sheet, City of Hackensack. Accessed June 4, 2024.</ref><ref name=BergenCountyDirectory>2024 County and Municipal Directory, Bergen County, New Jersey, April 2024. Accessed April 15, 2024.</ref>

Led by Mayor Labrosse, a team of candidates including four incumbents (and one newcomer) won the May 2021 municipal election. The winning slate defeated two other groups of five candidates, one of which was led by former deputy mayor David Sims.<ref>Sobko, Katie. "Mayor, incumbents claim victory in Hackensack nonpartisan election", The Record, May 11, 2021. Accessed June 26, 2022. "Voters went to the polls Tuesday to choose their city leadership for the next four years. They backed the predominantly incumbent slate led by two-term Mayor John Labrosse, according to unofficial results provided by the city clerk. Labrosse received 1,323 of the ballots tallied so far. Council newcomer Gerard Carroll picked up 1,294 votes, Councilwoman Stephanie Von Rudenborg received 1,278 votes, Deputy Mayor Kathleen Canestrino got 1,261 and Councilman Leonardo Battaglia received 1,234.... This year's election pitted Labrosse against one slate of progressive challengers led by Leila Amirhamzeh and another ticket headed by Deputy Mayor David Sims, a former Labrosse ally."</ref>

The May 2017 election was won by the Labrosse Team, which include the mayor and three other incumbents, joined by one newcomer.<ref>Jerde, Sara. "Ticket of mostly incumbents wins Hackensack race", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 10, 2017. Accessed August 30, 2017. "After an intense campaign season, the Labrosse team swept in the municipal election Tuesday night in Hackensack, according to unofficial election results.... In Hackensack, the ticket with the most incumbents running, including Mayor John Labrosse, Deputy Mayor Kathleen Canestrino, Councilman Leo Battaglia and Councilman David Sims, won. Stephanie Von Rudenborg was also on the ticket."</ref>

In April 2015, the city council selected Jason Some on an interim basis to fill the vacant seat of Rose Greenman, who had resigned the previous month citing claims that her council colleagues had discriminated against her.<ref>Vazquez, Jennifer. Template:Usurped, Hackensack Chronicle, April 24, 2015, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 19, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2017. "City officials appointed a young business owner to the seat left vacant after the resignation by former councilwoman Rose Greenman.... The vacancy was a result of Greenman's resignation last month, in which she claimed discrimination and retaliation."</ref> In the November 2015 general election, Deborah Keeling-Geddis was elected to serve the balance of the term of office, edging interim councilmember Jason Some by 24 votes in the final count, with four candidates running for the seat.<ref>South, Todd. Template:Usurped, The Record, November 11, 2015, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 19, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2017. "Keeling-Geddis emerged as the winner in last week's race for an unexpired council term after the votes were certified late Tuesday. She defeated incumbent Jason Some – who initially was in the lead – and two other candidates.... In numbers Keeling-Geddis said she received in a fax from the county elections board, she won in the field of four with 819 votes, followed by Jason Some with 785, Jason Nunnermacker with 758 and Richard Cerbo with 266."</ref><ref name=Bergen2015>Bergen County Statement of Vote November 3, 2015 General Election Template:Webarchive, Bergen County, New Jersey Clerk, December 2, 2015. Accessed March 21, 2016.</ref>

City Council candidate Joseph DeFalco, principal of Hackensack High School, died of a heart attack the day of the municipal election in 2005, but was elected despite his death.<ref>Staff. "Dead Candidate's Slate Wins Hackensack Election", The New York Times, May 11, 2005. Accessed August 30, 2017. "A candidate for the City Council in Hackensack, N.J., who died of a heart attack yesterday morning was elected last night as part of a five-person slate. The candidate, Joseph DeFalco, 61, who was the principal of Hackensack High School, collapsed at his home around 8 a.m. and was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center, according to his campaign staff."</ref> His running mates agreed to create a rotation under which each of the four surviving members of the New Visions for Hackensack slate would serve for a year as Mayor, creating a series of firsts for the City. Townes took office in 2005 as the city's first black mayor, and Sasso became the first female mayor in 2006. Meneses became Hackensack's first Hispanic mayor when he was sworn in on July 1, 2007, and Melfi took the reins as mayor in 2008.<ref>Sposito, Sean. Template:Usurped, The Record, July 2, 2007, backed up by the Internet Archive as of January 12, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2017. "Members of the City Council have been rotating the mayoralty since running mate Joe DeFalco's fatal heart attack on Election Day 2005. Traditionally, in Hackensack a mayor is appointed after the council is elected. But DeFalco's sudden death left the New Visions for Hackensack ticket in disarray. Councilman Marlin Townes served until June 2006, becoming the city's first black mayor. He was followed by Karen Sasso, who became the city's first woman mayor. She handed over the reins to Meneses on Sunday.... Newly appointed Deputy Mayor Michael R. Melfi will take his turn as mayor next in what Sasso describes as a 'tag team' of politicians."</ref> Four of the same five officials were re-elected in 2009 (Townes, Melfi, Sasso, Meneses), along with one opposition candidate, LaBrosse. The city council continued to rotate the mayor's seat, with the exception of Labrosse, and Melfi became mayor again in 2012.

Walter E. Nowakowski served as mayor from 1965-1969,Template:Citation needed Frank Zisa served as mayor from 1977 to 1981,<ref>Levin, Jay. Template:Usurped, The Record, June 10, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 11, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2017. "Frank C. Zisa of Hackensack, who served 16 years on the City Council and was mayor from 1977 to 1981, died Wednesday."</ref> Fred Cerbo from 1981 to 1989,<ref>"Fred CerboObituary", The Record, August 27, 2012. Accessed November 12, 2015. "He began his public service career with the Hackensack City Council and was elected and served as Mayor from 1981–1989."</ref> and John F. "Jack" Zisa (son of Frank Zisa) from 1989 to 2005.<ref>Davis, Tom; and Alvarado, Monsy. Template:Usurped, The Record, April 30, 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of August 21, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2017. "Jack Zisa, who served as mayor from 1989 to 2005, and Ken Zisa vehemently denied the allegations."</ref>

Former Assemblyman Charles "Ken" Zisa served as chief of the Hackensack Police Department from his 1995 appointment to replace John Aletta until May 2010 when he was suspended without pay on charges of official misconduct and insurance fraud. Tomas Padilla was appointed the acting police chief while the police department was being monitored by the Bergen County Prosecutors office. In May 2012, a judge ordered Zisa out of his position as police chief, a decision that cost him his police retirement benefits.<ref>Judge orders police chief from office, Couriierposstonline, 31 May 2012</ref><ref>Shuman, Marah. Template:Usurped, The Record, May 10, 1995. Accessed April 2, 2008.</ref><ref>Mosk, Matthew. Template:Usurped, The Record, December 19, 1995. Accessed April 2, 2008.</ref> In January 2013, Mike Mordaga was appointed the new civilian police director, which replaced the previous position of police chief.<ref>Adely, Hannan. Template:Usurped, The Record, January 22, 2013, backed up by the Internet Archive as January 31, 2017. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

Federal, state and county representation

Hackensack is located in the 5th Congressional District<ref name=PCR2012>Plan Components Report, New Jersey Redistricting Commission, December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref> and is part of New Jersey's 37th state legislative district.<ref name=Districts2011>Municipalities Sorted by 2011-2020 Legislative District, New Jersey Department of State. Accessed February 1, 2020.</ref><ref name=LWV2019>2019 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government, New Jersey League of Women Voters. Accessed October 30, 2019.</ref><ref>Districts by Number for 2011–2020, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed January 6, 2013.</ref>

Politics

As of March 2011, there were a total of 19,123 registered voters in Hackensack, of which 8,630 (45.1% vs. 31.7% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 1,993 (10.4% vs. 21.1%) were registered as Republicans and 8,492 (44.4% vs. 47.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 8 voters registered as either Libertarians or Greens.<ref name=VoterRegistration>Voter Registration Summary – Bergen, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 23, 2011. Accessed December 7, 2013.</ref> Among the city's 2010 Census population, 44.5% (vs. 57.1% in Bergen County) were registered to vote, including 54.7% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide).<ref name=VoterRegistration/><ref>GCT-P7: Selected Age Groups: 2010 – State – County Subdivision; 2010 Census Summary File 1 for New Jersey, United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 7, 2013.</ref>

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Democrat Barbara Buono received 59.7% of the vote (4,268 cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 39.0% (2,790 votes), and other candidates with 1.2% (89 votes), among the 7,327 ballots cast by the city's 19,506 registered voters (180 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 37.6%.<ref name="2013Elections">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="2013VoterReg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 6,247 ballots cast (70.9% vs. 48.0% countywide), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 2,194 votes (24.9% vs. 45.8%), Independent Chris Daggett with 288 votes (3.3% vs. 4.7%) and other candidates with 31 votes (0.4% vs. 0.5%), among the 8,812 ballots cast by the city's 19,819 registered voters, yielding a 44.5% turnout (vs. 50.0% in the county).<ref>2009 Governor: Bergen County Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 31, 2009. Accessed December 7, 2013.</ref>

In the 2016 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton received 12,015 votes (76.0% vs. 54.2% countywide), ahead of Republican Donald Trump with 3,345 votes (21.2% vs. 41.1%) and other candidates with 380 votes (2.4% vs. 4.6%), among the 15,913 ballots cast by the city's 22,926 registered voters, for a turnout of 69.4% (vs. 72.5% in Bergen County).<ref>Presidential November 8, 2016 General Election Results - Bergen County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, November 8, 2016. Accessed May 24, 2020</ref> In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 11,335 votes (78.6% vs. 54.8% countywide), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 2,835 votes (19.6% vs. 43.5%) and other candidates with 113 votes (0.8% vs. 0.9%), among the 14,428 ballots cast by the city's 20,971 registered voters, for a turnout of 68.8% (vs. 70.4% in Bergen County).<ref>Presidential November 6, 2012 General Election Results – Bergen County Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 15, 2013. Accessed December 13, 2013.</ref><ref>Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast November 6, 2012 General Election Results – Bergen County Template:Webarchive, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, March 15, 2013. Accessed December 13, 2013.</ref> In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 11,711 votes (75.7% vs. 53.9% countywide), ahead of Republican John McCain with 3,498 votes (22.6% vs. 44.5%) and other candidates with 102 votes (0.7% vs. 0.8%), among the 15,461 ballots cast by the city's 20,616 registered voters, for a turnout of 75.0% (vs. 76.8% in Bergen County).<ref>2008 Presidential General Election Results: Bergen County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed December 7, 2013.</ref><ref name="Results2008">2008 Presidential General Election Results: Bergen County, New Jersey Department of State, December 23, 2008. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref> In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 9,815 votes (71.0% vs. 51.7% countywide), ahead of Republican George W. Bush with 3,870 votes (28.0% vs. 47.2%) and other candidates with 88 votes (0.6% vs. 0.7%), among the 13,818 ballots cast by the city's 19,013 registered voters, for a turnout of 72.7% (vs. 76.9% in the whole county).<ref>2004 Presidential Election: Bergen County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed December 7, 2013.</ref>

Presidential elections results

Year	Republican	Democratic
style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2024<ref name="2024Elections">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|30.4% 5,151	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|67.0% 11,338
style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2020<ref name="2020Elections">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|23.1% 4,160	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|75.8% 13,685
style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2016<ref name="2016Elections">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|21.2% 3,345	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|76.0% 12,015
style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2012<ref name="2012Elections">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|19.6% 2,835	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|78.6% 11,335
style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2008<ref name="state.nj.us">2008 Presidential General Election Results: Bergen County, New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 23, 2008. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|22.6% 3,498	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|75.7% 11,711
style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|2004<ref name="Presidential Election 2004">[1], New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections, December 13, 2004. Accessed November 21, 2012.</ref>	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Republican|28.0% 3,870	style="text-align:center; Template:Party shading/Democratic|71.0% 9,815

Education

Public schools

File:Hackensack Middle School.jpg

Main Entrance, Hackensack Middle School

The Hackensack Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.<ref>Hackensack Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024. "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 Hackensack School District. Composition: The Hackensack School District comprises all the area within the County of Bergen."</ref> As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 5,483 students and 415.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1.<ref name=NCES>District information for Hackensack School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.</ref> Schools in the district, with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics,<ref>School Data for the Hackensack Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.</ref> are Early Childhood Development Center<ref>Early Childhood Development Center, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> for preschool, Fairmount Elementary School<ref>Fairmount Elementary School, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> with 598 students in grades PreK-4, Fanny Meyer Hillers School<ref>Fanny Meyer Hillers School, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> with 473 students in grades PreK-4, Jackson Avenue School<ref>Jackson Avenue School, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> with 435 students in grades PreK-4, Nellie K. Parker School<ref>Nellie K. Parker School, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> with 527 students in grades PreK-4, Hackensack Middle School<ref>Hackensack Middle School, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> with 1,447 students in grades 5-8 and Hackensack High School<ref>Hackensack High School, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref> with 1,852 students in grades 9-12.<ref>School Directory, Hackensack Public Schools. Accessed January 10, 2024.</ref><ref>New Jersey School Directory for the Hackensack Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

Hackensack High School serves high school students living in neighboring communities as part of sending/receiving relationships with the respective districts, including about 250 from Maywood, 120 from Rochelle Park and 250 from South Hackensack as of 2012.<ref>Tarrazi, Alexis. "Agreement reached between Maywood, Hackensack" Template:Webarchive, Hackensack Chronicle, March 9, 2012. Accessed November 5, 2013. "The Maywood school district has been sending its students to Hackensack High School for decades and currently sends 250 students. The high school also serves about 120 students from Rochelle Park and 80 students from South Hackensack, according to The Record."</ref> Teterboro residents had been able to choose between Hackensack High School and Hasbrouck Heights School District's Hasbrouck Heights High School.Template:Citation needed In March 2020, the Maywood Public Schools received approval from the New Jersey Department of Education to end the relationship it had established with Hackensack in 1969 and begin transitioning incoming ninth graders to Henry P. Becton Regional High School beginning in the 2020–2021 school year.<ref>Stoltz, Marsha A. "Here's why Maywood will send its students to Becton instead of Hackensack High School", The Record, March 9, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2020. "Maywood high school students will have four years to phase out of Hackensack High School and into Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford. The process will begin in September, when current Maywood eighth-graders will be the first to attend Becton as freshmen, according to a March 7 joint announcement by the superintendents of the two districts."</ref>

Bergen Arts and Science Charter School serves public school students from Hackensack, as well as those from Garfield and Lodi.<ref>New Application Template:Webarchive, iLearn Schools. Accessed August 30, 2017. "Bergen Arts and Science Charter School (Bergen-ASCS): Garfield, Lodi and Hackensack"</ref>

Public school students from the borough, 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 a selective application process and tuition covered by the student's home school district.<ref>About Us Template:Webarchive, Bergen County Technical Schools. Accessed December 7, 2013.</ref><ref>Admissions Template:Webarchive, Bergen County Technical Schools. Accessed December 29, 2016.</ref>

Private schools

The First Baptist Church operates Bergen County Christian Academy, a K–12 school that was established in 1972 and is located at Union Street and Conklin Place.<ref>About Template:Webarchive, Bergen County Christian Academy. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

The YCS George Washington School is a nonprofit private school for classified students ages 5–14 in grades K–8 who are experiencing behavioral and/or emotional difficulties. Its population consists of students who reside at the YCS Holley Child Care and Development Center in Hackensack and students within the surrounding communities whose needs cannot be adequately met in special education programs within their districts.<ref>About The School, YCS George Washington School. Accessed November 29, 2014. "The YCS George Washington School is a NJ Department of Education approved private school for classified students with behavioral, emotional and social challenges. We have been successfully educating students ages 5 – 14, grades K – 8, for over 30 years."</ref>

Padre Pio Academy is a defunct K–8 school that operated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark until its closure at the end of the 2012–2013 school year in the wake of declining enrollment and a deficit approaching $350,000.<ref>Adely, Hannan. "Archdiocese plans to close Hackensack Catholic school" Template:Webarchive, The Record, February 12, 2013. Accessed November 29, 2014. "The Padre Pio Academy, a Catholic elementary school, will close for good at the end of the school year, an archdiocese spokesman said Tuesday.... 'Very clearly, this is a case where there are fewer and fewer students each year to be educated and the deficit that the school has been running has been consistently high — at least $200,000 a year,' Goodness said. This year, the school was expected to operate with a $347,000 deficit, he said."</ref> The school had been formed in 2009 by the diocese through the merger of St. Francis of Assisi School with Holy Trinity.<ref>Hughes, Jennifer V. "Catholic Plan to Shut Schools Draws Protests", The New York Times, March 5, 2009. Accessed November 29, 2014. "The other schools in the Newark Archdiocese, all kindergarten to eighth grade, that will be affected include Holy Trinity and St. Francis of Assisi, both in Hackensack, which will merge to become Padre Pio Academy at the St. Francis site on South Main Street."</ref>

Colleges and universities

The Metropolitan Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University straddles the Hackensack River in both Hackensack and Teaneck.<ref>Metropolitan Campus Schematic Map, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

Bergen Community College has a location in Hackensack. The Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, is located at 355 Main Street at the corner of Passaic Street.<ref>Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, Bergen Community College. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

Eastwick College is located at 250 Moore Street.<ref>2013–14 Catalog, Eastwick College and the HoHoKus Schools. Accessed July 31, 2014.</ref>

Healthcare

Hackensack University Medical Center, part of Hackensack Meridian Health, is the primary health care provider and hospital for the city. Its main hospital campus, which includes a children's hospital, an all women's hospital, and Heart and Vascular Hospital, is located on 30 Prospect Avenue. The hospital's John Theurer Cancer Center is located on 2nd Street.<ref>Home Page - Hackensack UMC. Accessed August 5, 2018.</ref> Hackensack University Medical Center has two medical offices located on Russell Place and Essex Center.

Transportation

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Interstate 80 eastbound at Route 17 in Hackensack

Roads and highways

Template:As of, the city had a total of Template:Convert of roadways, of which Template:Convert were maintained by the municipality, Template:Convert by Bergen County and Template:Convert by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.<ref>Bergen County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010. Accessed December 8, 2013.</ref>

Interstate 80, Route 17, Route 4, and County Route 503 are among the many main roads serving Hackensack. Several bridges, including the Court Street Bridge, the Midtown Bridge and the Anderson Street Bridge span the Hackensack River.

Public transportation

The city is served by three train stations on NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line, two of them in Hackensack, providing service to Hoboken Terminal, with connecting service to Penn Station New York and other NJ Transit service at Secaucus Junction.<ref>Pascack Valley Line Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref> Anderson Street station<ref>Anderson Street station Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref> serves central Hackensack while Essex Street station<ref>Essex Street station Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref> serves southern portions of the city. The New Bridge Landing station,<ref>New Bridge Landing station Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref> located adjacent to the city line in River Edge also serves the northernmost parts of Hackensack, including The Shops at Riverside.

NJ Transit buses include lines 144, 157, 162, 163, 164, 165 and 168 serving the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan; the 171, 175, 178 and 182 to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station; the 76 to Newark; the 83 route to Jersey City; and local service on the 709, 712, 751, 752, 753, 755, 756, 762, 770, 772 and 780 lines.<ref>Template:Usurped, NJ Transit, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 22, 2009. Accessed September 14, 2016.</ref><ref>Bergen County System Map Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed September 14, 2016.</ref> Many of the bus routes stop, originate and terminate at the Hackensack Bus Terminal, a regional transit hub.<ref>Hackensack Bus Terminal Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit. Accessed December 13, 2011.</ref> Route 1X jitney of Fordham Transit originates/terminates at the bus terminal with service Inwood, Manhattan via Fort Lee Road.Template:Citation needed Spanish Transportation and several other operators provide frequent jitney service along Route 4 between Paterson, New Jersey, and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station.<ref>Jitney Transportation Along New Jersey's Route 4 Corridor, Columbia University Urban Transportation Policy, December 2006. Accessed September 14, 2016.</ref><ref>Paterson – George Washington Bridge, Jitney Buses of New Jersey. Accessed September 14, 2016.</ref>

The Passaic-Bergen Rail Line planned to have two stops in Hackensack, but the proposal went dormant.<ref>"Agreement Advances Passaic-Bergen Rail Project: Future cross-county service will link nine stations between Hawthorne and Hackensack" Template:Webarchive, NJ Transit press release dated May 13, 2009. Accessed June 30, 2011. "The Board approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NYS&W that provides a framework for NJ Transit's plan to construct and operate the Passaic-Bergen line using the NYS&W Main Line right-of-way between Hawthorne and Hackensack."</ref>

Emergency services

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Hackensack Fire Department responding to a house fire

Fire department

The City of Hackensack is protected by a force of 100 paid, professional firefighters of the city of Hackensack Fire Department (HFD).<ref>Hackensack Fire Department Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. August 30, 2017.</ref> The Hackensack Fire Department was first established on April 1, 1871, as Bergen Hook & Ladder Co. 1. In 1911, the full-time fire department was organized.<ref name=HFDHistory/> The Hackensack Fire Department responds to approximately 7,500 emergency calls annually.<ref>2011 Run Totals Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. Accessed August 30, 2017.</ref>

The Hackensack Ford dealership fire on July 1, 1988, resulted in the deaths of five firefighters after a bowstring truss roof collapsed. A message issued a minute before the collapse ordering firefighters out was never received due to defective communications equipment and two firefighters who survived the initial collapse could not be rescued as their calls for help were not received.<ref>"Ford Car Dealership Fire, Hackensack, NJ, July 1st, 1988" Template:Webarchive, United States Fire Administration, September 8, 2011. Accessed April 4, 2012.</ref><ref>Adely, Hanna. "(Archive) The Hackensack tragedy that changed how fires are fought", The Record, June 30, 2013, reprinted August 31, 2017. Accessed March 25, 2020. "That fateful day, July 1, 1988, the firemen rushed inside to knock down a fire they thought to be like any other they'd faced. After 35 minutes, the dealership's 60-ton bow-truss roof collapsed, killing three firefighters. Two others were trapped inside, radioing for help, but they could not be rescued before their air ran out."</ref>

Ten firefighters from Hackensack have died in the line of duty.<ref name=HFDHistory/>

The Hackensack Fire Department currently operates out of four fire stations located throughout the city, under the command of a Deputy Chief / Tour Commander for each shift. The Hackensack Fire Department operates a fire apparatus fleet of four engines, one ladder, two rescues (Rescue 2 is part of the Metro USAR Collapse Rescue Strike Team), one Metro USAR (urban search and rescue) Collapse Rescue Shoring Unit, one Special Operations (flood rescue) Unit, one Air Cascade Unit, one fire alarm maintenance bucket truck, two spare engines, and one spare ladder, as well as several special and support units.<ref name=HFDHistory/><ref>Apparatus Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. Accessed May 13, 2016.</ref>

The department is part of the Metro USAR Strike Team, which consists of nine North Jersey fire departments and other emergency services divisions working to address major emergency rescue situations.<ref>Steadman, Andrew. "Bayonne firefighters participate in mock disaster drills in Newark", The Jersey Journal, May 1, 2012. Accessed June 6, 2016. "According to the press release, the Metro USAR Strike Team is made up of nine fire departments from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Hackensack, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, Paterson, Morristown as well as the five-municipality North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Agency."</ref>

Fire station locations and apparatus<ref name=HFDHistory>History of the Hackensack Fire Department Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. Accessed May 13, 2016.</ref>

Engine company	Ladder company	Special unit	Command unit	Address
Engine 1		Special Operations Flood Rescue Unit		199 Hudson Street
Engine 2				107 S. Summit Avenue
Engine 4	Ladder 1	Rescue 1, Rescue 2 (Metro USAR Collapse Rescue Strike Team Unit), Air Cascade 1, Metro USAR (Urban Search And Rescue) Collapse Rescue Shoring Unit, (reserve/spare apparatus – Ladder 2, Engine 3, Engine 6)	Deputy Chief 1/Tour Commander	205 State Street
Engine 5				784 Main Street

Ambulance

The Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps provides emergency medical services to Hackensack and other nearby towns through mutual aid agreements. The Corps operates nightly from 6 pm to 6 am, and 24 hours on Saturdays and Sundays.<ref>Home page, Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc. Accessed March 21, 2015</ref> Daytime EMS is provided seven days a week by the Hackensack University Medical Center's ambulance service, overlapping volunteer coverage on weekends. Both the Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps are dispatched by MICCOM, the Northern New Jersey Mobile Intensive Care Communications Network. MICCOM provides dispatch and emergency medical call taking with pre-arrival instructions and updates.<ref>About Us, MICCOM. Accessed April 18, 2016.</ref>

Points of interest

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Hackensack's Church on The Green (First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack)

The city historian is Albert Dib. Walking tours are conducted of historic markers in downtown Hackensack, in and around The Green and lower Main Street, and a virtual historic walking tour is available as far north as the Pascack Valley Line crossing at Main Street.<ref>Virtual Historic Walking Tour: Main Street, Hackensack, NJ, City of Hackensack. Accessed September 21, 2013.</ref><ref>Main Street, Hackensack, NJ – Historic Walking Tour (Courthouse to Sears) Template:Webarchive, City of Hackensack. Accessed October 2, 2019.</ref>

The First Dutch Reformed Church ("Church on The Green") was built in 1696. In 1696 Major Berry donated land for the First Dutch Reformed Church,<ref>Photographic Inventory: Hackensack First Reformed Church, accessed August 7, 2006.</ref> erected in that same year, which still stands in Hackensack today as the oldest church in Bergen County and the second oldest church in New Jersey. The following is list of notable people buried in the Church's adjoining cemetery:

• Enoch Poor, one of George Washington's officers.<ref>Enoch Poor burial site Template:Webarchive, accessed August 7, 2006.</ref><ref>Encyclopedia of New Jersey</ref>
• Richard Varick, former mayor of the city of New York and former New York Attorney General.<ref>Col. Richard Varick burial site Template:Webarchive, accessed August 7, 2006.</ref><ref>northjersey.com</ref>

Bergen County's largest newspaper, The Record, a publication of the North Jersey Media Group, had been headquartered in Hackensack until moving to Woodland Park. Its Template:Convert campus is largely abandoned and has been sold to be redeveloped for a mixed-use commercial project that would include 500 residential apartments and a hotel, in association with the river walkway project.<ref>Adely, Hannan. "High-profile developers eye apartments, hotel at Record site in Hackensack" Template:Webarchive, The Record, June 24, 2013. Accessed December 8, 2013. "The Record's former headquarters, a 19.7-acre property on River Street in Hackensack, is being sold to a well-known local developer who said he wants to build a high-end residential and retail community with more than 500 apartments and a hotel."</ref>

The New Jersey Naval Museum is home to the World War II submarine Template:USS, a Template:Sclass, and several smaller water vessels and artifacts. The museum was open select weekdays for group tours.<ref>Keegan, Matthew. Hackensack, New Jersey: 300 Years of Modern History Template:Webarchive. Accessed August 25, 2013.</ref> In July and August 2018, several individuals broke in to the submarine attempting to steal artifacts and caused extensive flooding that severely damaged the vessel.<ref>Nobile, Tom. "Charges upgraded for five suspects in USS Ling vandalism", The Record, July 23, 2019. Accessed October 2, 2019. "Authorities have upped charges against five people accused of burglarizing the USS Ling in Hackensack, who are now charged with flooding the historic submarine during two break-ins last summer, allegedly causing damage in the hundreds of thousands, according to the submarine's trustees. An eight-count indictment from July 9 added counts of conspiracy and knowingly causing a flood, both second-degree crimes, to the burglary and criminal mischief charges the five so-called urban explorers faced for allegedly stealing artifacts from the WWII-era vessel."</ref>

The Hackensack Cultural Arts Center, located at 39 Broadway, is the city's leading theater arts institution and houses many local arts groups such as the Teaneck Theater Company and the Hackensack Theater Company. The facility also serves as the summer indoor location for the Hudson Shakespeare Company in case of rain. Otherwise, the group performs outdoors at Staib Park, with two "Shakespeare Wednesdays" per month for each month of the summer.<ref>Ciccarelli, Jon. Venues, Hudson Shakespeare Company. Accessed October 2, 2014.</ref>

The Shops at Riverside (formerly known as Riverside Square Mall), is an upscale shopping center located at the intersection of Route 4 and Hackensack Avenue at the northern edge of the city along the Hackensack River near its border with River Edge to the north and with Teaneck across the river. The mall, which has undergone a significant expansion, is anchored by a number of high-end department stores and restaurants, including Bloomingdale's, Tiffany & Co., Pottery Barn and Barnes & Noble, offering a gross leasable area of Template:Convert.<ref>"The Shops at Riverside", Malls and Outlets. Accessed December 8, 2013.</ref> The mall also added an AMC Theatres dine-in movie theater on September 13, 2017, which replaced the former Saks Fifth Avenue store<ref>First look: New AMC dine-in theatre in Hackensack. northjersey.com. Accessed September 12, 2017.</ref> that opened in 1977 and closed down in 2014.<ref>Ma, Myles. "Saks Fifth Avenue to close store in Shops at Riverside in Hackensack", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 21, 2014. Accessed April 14, 2021. "Saks Fifth Avenue plans to close its store in the Shops at Riverside later this year.... The Hackensack store opened in February 1977."</ref> The mall is known for its marble floors and attracts a great many upper-income shoppers from Manhattan and Northern Bergen County.

Hackensack's Main Street is devoted to shopping and includes some of the city's iconic landmarks, including the United Jersey Bank headquarters building and the former Woolworth site that is now a housewares store. The only remaining major store on Hackensack's Main Street had been Sears Roebuck and Co., which was located on the corner of Main and Anderson Streets. In July 2020, Sears announced that it would close its store in Hackensack.<ref name=TAP2020/> The site is close to the Anderson Street train station, and has been open since the 1930s.<ref>South, Todd. "A brand new world downtown in Hackensack, which appears set for remake", The Record, December 27, 2014. Accessed August 31, 2015.</ref>

Bergen County Jail is a detention center for both sentenced and unsentenced prisoners. It is located on South River Street. The County is in the process of moving the County Police from the northern end of the city to a new site across from the Jail. The former site will be redeveloped as a "transit village" complex associated with the New Bridge Landing station in adjoining River Edge.<ref>Burrow, Megan. Template:Usurped, Town News, May 3, 2011. Accessed November 8, 2011. "Transit Village, a proposed joint project between River Edge and New Jersey Transit, has received interest from six developers. The project would consist of mixed-use buildings housing residential units, retail and office space, and a parking garage near the New Bridge Landing train station."</ref>

The city's Johnson Public Library at 274 Main Street is a member of the Bergen County Cooperative Library System. The library opened in 1901 with a gift from State Senator William M. Johnson.<ref>History of the Johnson Public Library in Hackensack Template:Webarchive, Johnson Public Library. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref>

Ice House is a complex with four full-sized skating rinks that opened in 1996. It is home to the New Jersey Avalanche mainstreamed and special needs hockey teams and several high school hockey teams, in addition to being the home rink of gold medalists Sarah Hughes, Elena Bereznaia and Anton Sikharulidze.<ref>About Us Template:Webarchive, Ice House. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref> At the 2018 Winter Olympics, there were 11 Olympic figure skaters—from Israel, Switzerland, Slovakia, Canada, and Australia—who trained at the Ice House for the ladies' singles, men's singles, pairs and ice dance competitions.<ref>Shkolnikova. Svetlana. "Winter Olympics: How figure skaters with North Jersey ties fared in Pyeongchang", The Record, February 21, 2018. Accessed October 2, 2019.</ref><ref>Shkolnikova, Svetlana. "Winter Olympics: Who are the Ice House Olympians?", The Record, January 26, 2018. Accessed October 2, 2019. "The 11 athletes heading to Pyeongchang from the Ice House in Hackensack will represent five countries — Israel, Switzerland, Slovakia, Canada and Australia — in the ladies' singles, men's singles, pairs and ice dance competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics."</ref>

Other points of interest within the city include the Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack River County Park, Bowler City Bowling Lanes, Borg's Woods Nature Preserve, the Bergen County Court House and the Bergen Museum of Art & Science.

Local media

Radio station WNYM at 970 AM, is licensed to Hackensack and has its transmitter in the city. The station is currently owned by Salem Communications with a conservative talk radio format.<ref>Application Search Details, Federal Communications Commission. Accessed December 8, 2013.</ref> After five years as a country music station, the station switched its call letters to WWDJ and started playing a Top 40 radio format starting in July 1971, competing with Top 40 powerhouse 77 WABC.<ref>Wilson, John S. "Radio Tuning In to the Country Styles", The New York Times, July 19, 1971. Accessed August 28, 2024. "Until a few weeks ago WJRZ in Hackensack, N. J., had been supplying the New York area with country music for more than five years. But it has now changed its music policy to rock and its call letters to WWDJ."</ref><ref>Simpson, Kim. "WWDJ (Hackensack): Top 40, 1971-1974", Early '70s Radio, August 5, 2014. Accessed August 28, 2024. "WWDJ in Hackensack, New Jersey, was one of the ultimate early '70s stations not only because its lifespan stretched from 1971 to 1974, but also because it had the contemporary post-'Boss Radio' Top 40 sound."</ref> The station, then the county's only commercial radio station, switched to religious broadcasting in April 1974.<ref>"WWDJ Drops Its Rock Format In Shift to Religious Programing", The New York Times, April 1, 1974. Accessed August 28, 2024. "Bergen County's only commercial radio station, WWDJ, is switching its format today from rock 'n' roll to nearly all religious programing. The AM station, at 97 on the dial, also is moving its operations in Hackensack from Hackensack Avenue to two trailers at the site of its transmitter, at the foot of Commerce Way."</ref>

In popular culture

Template:Trivia Hackensack has been mentioned in the lyrics of songs by several musical artists, many of whom have lived in New Jersey or New York City. The town was home to the original Van Gelder recording studio at 25 Prospect Avenue<ref>Dan Skea "Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack: Defining the Jazz Sound in the 1950s" Template:Webarchive, Musicological Studies, 71/72, Spring 2001-Spring 2002, p. 54-76</ref> where the jazz musicians Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk recorded some of their landmark work. Monk recorded a tribute to Rudy Van Gelder entitled "Hackensack". Other notable examples of Hackensack in songs include:

• The 1929 Billy Murray/Walter Scanlan recording of "Shut the Door" has the lines, "I live out in Hackensack in a place down by the sea. (Oh, you live out in Hackensack. Well, don't blame that on me!)" despite the fact that Hackensack is a dozen miles from the sea, and on the other side of the Hudson.
• "I Happen to Like New York" by Cole Porter, written in 1930 for the musical The New Yorkers.
• "Back In Hackensack, New Jersey" which was written in 1924.<ref>"Back In Hackensack, New Jersey"</ref>
• "Roller Derby Queen" by Jim Croce, describes the tough titular character in the song as "She's my big blonde bomber, my heavy handed Hackensack mama."
• "Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More" by Steely Dan from their 1975 album Katy Lied includes the rhyme "Driving like a fool out to Hackensack/Drinking his dinner from a paper sack".
• Fountains of Wayne, "Hackensack" (Welcome Interstate Managers, 2003) which was also covered by Katy Perry, 2009.<ref>Montgomery, James. Template:Usurped, MTV.com, October 12, 2009. Accessed August 30, 2017. "Featured in the package are rearranged takes on hits like 'I Kissed a Girl,' Waking Up in Vegas,' 'Thinking of You' and a pair of brand-new songs: Perry's version of the Fountains of Wayne's 'Hackensack' and a never-before-released original 'Brick by Brick.'".</ref>
• Johnny Cash, "I've Been Everywhere" (Unchained) a 1996 cover of a number 1 hit in Country Music in November 1962 in the United States by Hank Snow.
• Peter Schickele (under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach), "O Little Town of Hackensack", a parody of the traditional carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem".<ref>Choral Christmas Carols Template:Webarchive, The Peter Schieckele P.D.Q. Bach Web Site. Accessed May 28, 2013.</ref>
• "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" by Billy Joel includes the lines "Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• "Lost In Hollywood" by System of a Down includes the lyrics, "The lines in the letter said, 'We have gone to Hackensack'".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Tom Rush's 2018 song "If I Never Get Back to Hackensack" pokes gentle fun at the town and mentions various other places in New Jersey.<ref>Lustig, Jay. "'If I Never Get Back to Hackensack,' Tom Rush", NJArts.net, April 19, 2020. Accessed May 28, 2023. "Veteran singer-songwriter Tom Rush's 'If I Never Get Back to Hackensack' joins the small club of novelty songs that take advantage of the large number of weird New Jersey town names (such as Dave Van Ronk's 'Garden State Stomp' and Steve Forbert's 'Strange Names (New Jersey's Got 'Em)')."</ref>

Hackensack also appears in movies, video games, books and television.

• In the 2001 film Zoolander, Mugatu is threatened by someone saying "Perhaps you'd like to go back to turning out novelty neck ties in Hackensack."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• In the 1978 film Superman: The Movie, Hackensack was to have been ground zero for a nuclear missile launched by Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), as Superman (Christopher Reeve) is slowly dying from exposure to kryptonite. This however prompts Luthor's secretary, Eve Teschmacher, to save Superman's life, after making him promise to save her mother, a Hackensack resident.<ref>Borg, Stephen A. Template:Usurped, (201) magazine, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 3, 2016. Accessed November 2, 2019. "In the 1978 movie, Superman, Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) boasts to Superman (Christopher Reeve) that Hackensack is the target of one of two missiles he has fired to reap destruction on planet Earth."</ref>
• In the 1954 film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock, L.B. Jefferies' (Jimmy Stewart) maid, Stella (Thelma Ritter), muses that she had handled enough rhodium tri-eckonol pills to "put everybody in Hackensack to sleep for the winter." She makes the statement while she and Jefferies spy on his neighbors, one of which was laying out on a table a set of pills in an apparent contemplation of suicide.
• The 1985 film Brewster's Millions starred Richard Pryor, who played a pitcher for the Hackensack Bulls, a fictional minor-league baseball team that plays in a stadium where a railroad track runs across the outfield.<ref>Blowen, Michael. "Pryor Steals 'Brewster's Millions'", The Boston Globe, May 22, 1985. Accessed May 5, 2008. "Pitcher Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor), a dead ringer for Satchel Paige until he throws the ball, plays for the Hackensack Bulls in the mythical Jersey League."</ref>
• The 1997 game Grand Theft Auto features the district of Hackenslash, based on Hackensack.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• In the 1998 film Bride of Chucky, Chucky's human body is said to be buried in a fictional Hackensack cemetery.<ref>Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Film Review; Carrying a Torch for a Malevolent Doll", The New York Times, October 17, 1998. Accessed August 26, 2018. "Bride of Chucky, directed this time by Ronny Yu, splatters blood, piles up corpses and puts two star-crossed young lovers in peril before it reaches the inevitable conclusion (in a Hackensack, N.J. graveyard) that suggests that the family of Chucky films that began in 1988 with Child's Play is prepared to grow yet again."</ref>
• The 2013 film Don Jon starring and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt was filmed in Hackensack. The Church of St. Anthony of Padua, located on S. Main Street, can be seen in the movie.<ref>Gerace, Joseph M. "Upcoming Don Jon Filmed on Location in Bergen County", Teaneck Patch, September 20, 2013. Accessed August 26, 2018. "While you never know what's going to make it into a final cut, multiple sources reported last year that the film—starring, directed and written by Joseph Gordon-Levitt—shot on location in Hackensack."</ref>
• In the 1997 film adaptation Private Parts, when Howard Stern leaves WCCC for WWWW, he is speaking to DJ Fred Norris from a vehicle parked in front of 299 Main Street. The camera pans out and stores are seen in the backdrop as Howard Stern drives off.<ref>Cowen, Richard. "Hackensack, DJ make peace; Stern reschedules film shoot", The Record, August 1, 1996. Accessed November 4, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "It seems controversy follows Howard Stern everywhere he goes and doesn't go. In this case, the controversy is on Main Street in Hackensack, where Stern was supposed to be on July 8 to film a scene for the movie, Private Parts, based on his best-selling auto-biography."</ref>
• The 2021 horror television series Chucky uses Hackensack as the main plot location and the home of protagonists Jake Wheeler, Devon Evans and Lexy Cross. It was also revealed to be the hometown of the main antagonist of the series, Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray, in which he grew up.<ref>Atkinson, John. "Why Chucky Chose To Target Hackensack, New Jersey; Chucky sees the killer doll go to Hackensack, New Jersey. Here's how it ties to his origin and the reason it's a fitting locale for a final showdown.", Screen Rant, October 14, 2021. Accessed November 4, 2021.</ref> and the place of his burial, in Bride of Chucky.

Notable people

Template:Category see also People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Hackensack include:

• Enzo Amore (born 1986 as Eric Arndt), former professional wrestler; worked for WWE<ref>Locicero, Anthony. "Where are they now? Former Waldwick football player Eric Arndt" Template:Webarchive, The Record, June 11, 2013. Accessed December 17, 2014. "So now, eight years after graduating from Waldwick High School, Arndt is living his dream."</ref>
• Phil Arnold (1909–1968), actor<ref>Twomey, Alfred E.; and McClure, Arthur F. "The versatiles:a study of supporting character actors and actresses in the American motion picture, 1930–1955", p. 32. A. S. Barnes, 1969. Accessed May 28, 2013. "Phil Arnold was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and appeared in many amateur contests around Bayonne, New Jersey, in which 'he won them all.'"</ref>
• Carol Arthur (1935–2020), actress who played a number of supporting roles in films by Mel Brooks<ref>Staff. Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television: Volume 46, p. 90. Gale Research, 2003. Template:ISBN. Accessed October 26, 2013. "DeLuise, Carol 1935– (Carol Arthur) Personal: Original name, Carol Arata; born August 4, 1935, in Hackensack, NJ; married Dom DeLuise (an actor), November 23, 1965"</ref><ref>Attrino, Anthony G. "N.J.'s Carol Arthur Deluise, widow of Dom Deluise, dies in California after long illness", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 5, 2020. Accessed November 5, 2020. "Born Carol Arata in Hackensack, she lived in East Rutherford and was the daughter of a police lieutenant in the borough."</ref>
• Pete Athas (1946–2015), cornerback who played for the New York Giants during his six NFL seasons<ref>Staff. "Giants Drop Athas, Add Two; Vote on Strike Looms in N.F.L.; Wells, Boone Join Team Hunter Quits", The New York Times, September 11, 1975. Accessed October 26, 2013. "Pete Athas, starter at left cornerback since 1971, was dropped yesterday as the New York Giants continued to move out the old guard.... Athas, who will be 28 years old on Monday was born in Hackensack, N. J."</ref>
• Barton Lidice Beneš (1942–2012), artist<ref>Vitello, Paul. "Barton Lidice Benes, Provocative Artist, Dies at 69", The New York Times, June 18, 2012. Accessed October 26, 2013. "Barton Lidice Benes was born in Hackensack, N.J. on Nov. 16, 1942, the son of Marie and Richard Benes."</ref>
• Ellsworth P. Bertholf (1866–1921), Commandant of the Coast Guard from 1915 to 1919<ref>Kroll, C. Douglas. Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf : first Commandant of the Coast Guard, Naval Institute Press, 2002. Accessed October 26, 2013. "Shortly after this birth the family moved across the Hudson River from New York City into the bustling New Jersey village of Hackensack. By this time Ellsworth had received the nickname 'Todd,' by which he would be known throughout his childhood."</ref>
• Hubert Birkenmeier (born 1949), soccer player, coach, and businessman<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• James Black (1800–1872), blacksmith who is credited with creating the Bowie knife<ref>Gwaltney, Francis Irby. "A Survey of Historic Washington, Arkansas", Arkansas Historical Quarterly; Volume 17, Winter 1955, p. 339. Accessed October 26, 2013. "But the principal character in the story of the Bowie Knife is not James Bowie of Vadalia, Memphis, and the Alamo. It is James Black of Washington, Arkansas.... James Black was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, May 1, 1800."</ref>
• David Boll (born 1953), cyclist who competed in the individual road race event at the 1976 Summer Olympics<ref>Template:Usurped, Sports Reference. Accessed September 13, 2015.</ref>
• Debby Boone (born 1956), singer<ref>via Knight News Service. "Debby Boone feels comfortable with a country label", Lakeland Ledger, February 10, 1981. Accessed April 4, 2012. "The third of four daughters of Pat and Shirley Boone (Red Foley, who died in 1968, was Shirley's father), Debby was born in Hackensack, N.J., but her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 4."</ref>
• Warren Boroson (1935–2023), author and journalist<ref>Warren Boroson; Author and Journalist Template:Webarchive. Accessed June 2, 2007.</ref><ref>Boroson, Warren. "The case for consulting the Value Line Investment Survey" Template:Webarchive, NewJerseyNewsroom.com, August 31, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2012. "Yes, a subscription to either publication is very expensive, but you can always patronize that horrible socialist institution, a public library, to read them. In Hackensack, where I live, when you ask for permission to examine Value Line, the librarians insist that you leave your driver's license with them – lest you drive off with Value Line to parts unknown."</ref>
• Adam Boyd (1746–1835), represented New Jersey in Congress from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1808 to 1813<ref>Adam Boyd, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 22, 2007.</ref>
• Glenn Britt (1949–2014), CEO of Time Warner Cable from 2001 to December 2013<ref>Henry, David; and Sherman, Alex. "Glenn Britt, Who Raised Time Warner Cable Shares, Dies at 65", Bloomberg Businessweek, June 11, 2014. Accessed December 14, 2015. "Glenn Alan Britt was born on March 6, 1949, in Hackensack, New Jersey, to parents Walter E. Britt and Helen Crupi, according to Marquis Who's Who."</ref>
• David Brock (born 1962), Neo-Liberal political operative, author and commentator who founded the media watchdog group Media Matters for America<ref>Lei, Richard. "The Reliable Source", The Washington Post, August 1, 2004. Accessed November 25, 2017. "David Brock... Born: July 23, 1962, in Hackensack, N.J.; grew up on Windsor Street and Sussex Road in Wood-Ridge, N.J."</ref>
• Hector Luis Bustamante (born 1972), Colombian-American actor<ref>Staff. "Award-winning Actor Hector Bustamante Guests on Eye on Entertainment on Time Warner Cable", Newswire, June 2, 2010. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Bustamante began his acting career in high school (Hackensack, NJ) but was discouraged after being told by an acting teacher that his thick accent would never allow him to be a professional actor."</ref>
• Oleksii Bychenko (born 1988), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic figure skater who competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Cody Calafiore (born 1990), reality television personality who was runner up on Big Brother 16<ref>Staff. "Hackensack native joins 'Big Brother' cast", The Record, June 20, 2014. Accessed December 17, 2014. "Cody Calafiore of Hackensack is among the 16 'Houseguests' competing on the new season of Big Brother, which premieres 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday on CBS. Calafiore, 23, is a sales account executive who currently lives in Howell."</ref>
• Frank Capsouras (born 1947), weightlifter who represented the United States in the men's heavyweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics<ref>Template:Usurped, Sports Reference. Accessed January 18, 2020. "Born: January 29, 1947 (Age 72.354, YY.DDD) in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States"</ref>
• Philip Carey (1925–2009), actor who starred in One Life to Live<ref>via Associated Press. "Phil Carey, 83, Longtime One Life to Live Star, Dies", The New York Times, February 13. 2009. Accessed April 4, 2012. "Born Eugene Joseph Carey on July 15, 1925, in Hackensack, N.J., Mr. Carey began his film career with a part in Operation Pacific, starring John Wayne."</ref>
• George Cassedy (1783–1842), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey who served from 1821 to 1827<ref>Cassedy, George, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref>
• Brian Cina, politician who serves in the Vermont House of Representatives<ref>"20 Questions with Brian Cina ‘98", Beyond The Green; Class of 1998 Newsletter, Fall 2015. Accessed August 18, 2024. "[Q] Where did you grow up? [A] I was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and lived in Lodi, NJ from birth until I went to Dartmouth."</ref>
• Vinny Ciurciu (born 1980), linebacker who has played in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions<ref>Vinny Ciurciu, National Football League. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref>
• Austen Crehore (1893–1962), World War I pilot in the Armée de l'Air and the recipient of the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with two palms<ref>Quarter-centenary Record of the Class of 1885, Yale University: Covering the Thirty-one Years from Its Admission Into the Academic Department, 1881–1912, p. 365. Yale University Class of 1885. Accessed September 13, 2015.</ref>
• Dave Davis (1942–2022), professional ten-pin bowler; 1967 PBA Player of the Year and PBA Hall of Famer<ref>Dave Davis, Professional Bowlers Association. Accessed April 10, 2011. "Through all his years of Tour competition dating back to 1963, Davis, a tall, slim lefty from Hackensack, N.J., won 18 career Tour titles, amassed official earnings of $912,765, and also found time to serve on the PBA's various committees, including the all-important Tournament Committee and Executive Board."</ref>
• Christopher Dell (born 1956), diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Kosovo, Angola and Zimbabwe<ref>Di Lellio, Anna. "Interview with Christopher Dell", Oral History Kosovo, August 27, 2018. Accessed January 19, 2021. "Christopher Dell: So I was born in Hackensack, which is very close to New York. My family was from Palisades Park, which you probably know being from New York."</ref>
• Anthony DiCosmo (born 1977), gridiron football player<ref>Anthony DiCosmo, all-xfl.com. Accessed March 31, 2016.</ref>
• Harold Dow (1947–2010), correspondent on 48 Hours<ref>Template:Usurped, 48 Hours. Accessed October 11, 2007. "Dow was born in Hackensack, N.J. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha."</ref><ref>Fields, Walter. "Opinion: Harold Dow: He never forgot his roots", The Record, August 24, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2012. "When someone who is still relatively young dies suddenly, it is cliché to suggest that it was 'too soon.' In the case of CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, the cliché is appropriate. Dow, a product of Hackensack and a source of pride in the community, still had much to give a profession that is in dire need of the character and purpose this award-winning journalist brought to his craft."</ref>
• Peter Dykstra (1957–2024), Greenpeace activist and a CNN environment correspondent<ref>Gabriel, Trip. "Peter Dykstra, Pioneering CNN Climate Journalist, Dies at 67", The New York Times, August 22, 2024. Accessed August 28, 2024. "Peter David Dykstra was born on March 2, 1957, in Hackensack, N.J., and raised in nearby Hasbrouck Heights."</ref>
• John Fenn (1917–2010), chemist who was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for his work in mass spectrometry<ref>Fenn, John. "John B. Fenn – Biographical", Nobel Prize. Accessed October 26, 2013. "Our home was in Hackensack, N.J., next door to Lodi and County Seat of Bergen County. I was born in New York City in 1917 and three plus years later my brother Norman arrived in Paterson, N.J. where two of mother's brothers were surgeons."</ref>
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, went to the prep school, the Newman School, in Hackensack in 1911<ref>Ellis, Robert. Template:Usurped, The Record, January 5, 2004. Accessed November 11, 2015. "He had come to Jersey City from Hackensack. Before Scott Fitzgerald, young, unpublished, unknown, became Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the Jazz Age whose gin, bootleggers, speakeasies, and morning-after squint he illuminated, before Scott and his wife Zelda caroused in the fountain at The Plaza Hotel, before all the novels that would eventually make him the quintessentially American novelist of his generation, there was only Scott and Hackensack, his true lost city."</ref><ref>Fitzgerald, Francis Scott; Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph; Baughman, Judith. Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald, P. 35. University of Missouri Press, 2004. Template:ISBN. Accessed November 11, 2015.</ref>
• Jim Finn (born 1976), New York Giants fullback<ref>Zinser, Lynn. "Pro Football; For Giants' Finn, There's No Place Like Home", The New York Times, September 6, 2003. Accessed April 4, 2012. "At 26, Finn has come home. He lives in Hackensack, N.J., a short drive from the stadium and a short drive from his family."</ref>
• Dave Fiore (born 1974), offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins<ref>Template:Usurped, database Football. Accessed June 14, 2007.</ref><ref>Staff. "Raiders, 49ers Await Decision", Contra Costa Times, September 12, 2001. Accessed April 4, 2012. "Tuesday also was the regular day off for the 49ers, though a few players did briefly show up at the team's Santa Clara headquarters, including safety Lance Schulters and right guard Dave Fiore, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and Hackensack, NJ, respectively."</ref>
• Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1876–1950), author of many popular children's books<ref>"Fitzhugh, Author, Is Victim Of Stroke At Oradell Home", copy of article from The Record, July 7, 1950. Accessed April 2, 2008.</ref>
• Silvia Fontana (born 1976), figure skater who represented Italy at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin<ref>Wojnarowski, Adrian. Template:Usurped, The Record, February 21, 2006. Accessed April 4, 2012. "Figure skater Silvia Fontana, right, a resident of Hackensack, enjoying a break from training with her coach, Robin Wagner."</ref>
• Chet Forte (1935–1996), television director and sports radio talk show host<ref>Staff. "Chet Forte, 60, Is Dead; An Innovative TV Director", The New York Times, May 20, 1996. Accessed October 26, 2013. "Fulvio Chester Forte Jr. was born Aug. 7, 1935, in Hackensack, N.J., the only child of a sports-loving mother and a physician. The class president at Hackensack High School, he became an all-America player at Columbia despite being 5 feet 7 inches and 145 pounds."</ref>
• Donald Frankos (1938–2011), contract killer and mob associate of the Lucchese crime family<ref>Forbus, Jason. Contract Killing in the Information Age, p. 22. Lulu Press, 2015. Template:ISBN. Accessed March 31, 2016. "Frankos was born in 1938 in Hackensack, New Jersey, to a Greek father and an Italian mother."</ref>
• Bob Franks (1951–2010), represented Template:Ushr from 1993–2001<ref>Schudel, Matt. "Bob Franks, four-term congressman from N.J., dies at 58", The Washington Post, April 12, 2010. Accessed October 26, 2013. "Robert Douglas Franks was born in Hackensack, N.J., and graduated from DePauw University in Indiana. He received a law degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1976, then returned to New Jersey to work as a political consultant."</ref>
• Mike Fratello (born 1947), NBA coach and TV commentator<ref>Mike Fratello, Basketball-Reference.com. Accessed November 1, 2007.</ref><ref>Broussard, Chris. "Pro Basketball; Nets Might Withdraw Offer To Jackson and Hire Casey", The New York Times, June 4, 1999. Accessed April 3, 2012. "Tuesday's surprising firing of Coach Mike Fratello by the Cleveland Cavaliers provoked thought among the members of the search committee, but Fratello, a Hackensack, N.J., native, is a long shot at best."</ref>
• Dean Gallo (1935–1994), represented Template:Ushr from 1985 until his death<ref>Kuzma, David. "Inventory to the Dean A. Gallo Congressional Papers", Rutgers University. Accessed October 26, 2013. "1935: On November 23rd, Dean Anderson Gallo is born in Hackensack, New Jersey."</ref>
• Elene Gedevanishvili (born 1990), figure skater who represented the nation of Georgia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver<ref>Iorfida, Chris. "Rochette 3rd behind Kim, Asada", CBC Sports, February 24, 2010. Accessed April 10, 2011. "Gedevanishvili lives in Hackensack, N.J., training under former skater Robin Wagner, who coached 2002 gold medallist Sarah Hughes."</ref>
• Norm Gigon (1938–2013), utility player who played for the Chicago Cubs in 1967<ref>Norm Gigon, Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed September 13, 2015.</ref>
• Doug Glanville (born 1970), Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and the Texas Rangers; writer and broadcaster<ref>Borden, Sam. Template:Usurped, New York Daily News, February 13, 2005. Accessed April 10, 2011. "The biggest competition this spring will be for the backup outfield spot, with incumbent Bubba Crosby trying to keep his job against several other candidates including Hackensack product Doug Glanville or the group of relievers (oft-injured Steve Karsay, among them) vying for a less visible role in the bullpen."</ref>
• Junior Glymph (born 1980), linebacker who played in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys<ref>Junior Glymph, National Football League. Accessed October 26, 2013.</ref>
• Navarro Gray (born 1979), lawyer best known for his accomplishments in the entertainment industry, including representing Fetty Wap<ref>Template:Usurped, Community News, September 20, 2013, backed up by the Internet Archive as of August 8, 2016. Accessed January 30, 2018. "Without realizing it, Navarro Gray made history when he was named the city's public defender — becoming the first African-American to hold this position in Hackensack. Before graduating from Hampton University Cum Laude and Hofstra University School of Law, Gray attended Fairmont Elementary School and Hackensack High School — having graduated from the latter in 1997."</ref>
• David Grisman (born 1945), mandolin player<ref>Lindsey, Caroline. "Veteran Musician Grisman Continues Innovation", Greensboro News & Record, August 14, 2003. Accessed July 5, 2008.</ref>
• John Groninga (born 1945), politician who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from the 20th district from 1983 to 1993<ref>Representative John D. Groninga, Iowa General Assembly. Accessed January 13, 2021. "Born in Hackensack, N.J., May 5, 1945. Grew up in Butler County and graduated from Dumont High School, 1963."</ref>
• Bill Hands (1940–2017), former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Chicago Cubs during his 11-year career<ref>Bill Hands, Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed June 1, 2015.</ref>
• Chet Hanulak (1933–2021), former NFL running back who played for four seasons for the Cleveland Browns<ref>Chet Hanulak, NFL.com. Accessed July 12, 2016.</ref>
• Harry Harper (1895–1963), Major League Baseball pitcher from 1913 to 1923<ref>Staff. "Harry Harper To Wed This Winter", The Day, Harry Harper, the left handed pitcher of the Washington baseball club, has been recently engaged to a Hackensack young woman... The wedding will take place during the winter at his hometown, Hackensack."</ref>
• Archibald C. Hart (1873–1935), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1912 to 1913 and from 1913 to 1917<ref>Archibald C. Hart, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed July 28, 2007.</ref><ref>Staff. "Hart Wins Election M'Clave Defeated; Democrat Goes to Congress from Sixth Jersey District – Congratulated by Wilson.", The New York Times, July 23, 1913. Accessed April 4, 2012. "Archibald C. Hart of Hackensack, Bergen County, was chosen Congressman for the Sixth New Jersey district at the special election to-day to succeed the late Congressman James Martin of Sussex County."</ref>
• Matt Herr (born 1976), ice hockey forward who played for parts of four NHL seasons<ref>Matt Herr Template:Webarchive Legends of Hockey. Accessed December 18, 2007.</ref><ref>"Ex-NHL Player Matt Herr Named Executive Director Of UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex", Pittsburgh Penguins, May 5, 2015. Accessed September 13, 2015. "The native of Hackensack, NJ played 58 NHL games over parts of four seasons with the Washington Capitals, Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins."</ref>
• Henry Kent Hewitt (1887–1972), United States Navy commander of amphibious operations in North Africa and southern Europe throughout World War II<ref>Cherpak, Evelyn M., ed. The Memoirs of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, p. 15. Naval War College Press, 2004. Template:ISBN. Accessed September 13, 2015. "I was born on February 11, 1887, in my maternal grandfather's house on what was then known as Kent place on Polifly Road (or Terrace Avenue), about a tenth of a mile south of Essex Street in the southern outskirts of Hackensack, New Jersey."</ref>
• John Huyler (1808–1870), represented Template:Ushr in the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1859<ref>John Huyler, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 2, 2007.</ref>
• Mark Ingram II (born 1989), anchor for Fox Sports who was a Heisman Trophy winning running back and played for 12 years in the NFL<ref>Mark Ingram, Heisman.com. Accessed November 13, 2023. "Ingram, the son of former NFL wide receiver Mark Ingram, Sr., was born in Hackensack, New Jersey."</ref>
• Connor Jaeger (born 1991), competition swimmer who specializes in distance freestyle events<ref>Template:Usurped, United States Olympic Committee. Accessed August 8, 2016.</ref>
• Howie Janotta (1924–2010), professional basketball player who played for the Baltimore Bullets in 9 games during the 1949–50 NBA season<ref>Howie Janotta, Real GM. Accessed May 12, 2016.</ref>
• Al Jochim (1902–1980), gymnast who won two silver medals in gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles<ref>"Alfred Jochim, 77; was Olympic medalist", Herald News, March 19, 1980. Accessed November 13, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Funeral services will be Friday for Alfred A. Jochim, 77. who died Monday at Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck. Mr. Jochim was born in Germany and came to this country in 1905. He lived in Union City and Hackensack before moving to Lodi 11 years moving ago."</ref>
• Eric Karros (born 1967), Major League Baseball player and TV commentator<ref>Eric Karros Stats, Baseball Almanac. Accessed December 3, 2012.</ref><ref>Downey, Mike. "Next Up For Tyson: Go, Xena!", Lakeland Ledger, August 8, 2004. Accessed December 5, 2012. "It's OK with me if Karros – who was born in Hackensack, N.J. – gets to play for the Greeks because of his heritage."</ref>
• Lena Kleinschmidt (1835–after 1886), German-born New York criminal who was a prominent jewel thief during the late 19th century<ref>Malone, Noreen. "Jersey Housewife Nabbed Red-Handed; Yippy dogs, sticky fingers.", New York, April 1, 2012. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Make of it what you will that the woman crowned the 'Queen of Hackensack' was a petty thief with high-flying social aspirations and a taste for small yippy dogs who was eventually brought down by her gaudy taste in jewelry. It was in the 1860s, long before The Real Housewives of New Jersey, that Lena Kleinschmidt acquired her title."</ref>
• Hailey Kops (born 2002), Israeli pair skater<ref>Hailey Esther Kops - Identity, The-Sports.org. Accessed December 29, 2021. "Place of residence : Hackensack (United States)"</ref>
• Louis F. Kosco (born 1932), politician who served in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate<ref>Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 2000, p. 241. Fitzgerald's, 2000. Template:ISBN Accessed November 15, 2017. "Louis F. Kosco, Rep., Paramus - Assemblyman Kosco was born in Hackensack on June 5, 1932."</ref>
• Harvey M. Krueger (1929–2017), investment banker who was CEO and President of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.<ref>"Obituaries", Columbia College Today, Winter 2017-18. Accessed June 30, 2020. "Harvey M. Krueger, attorney, financial executive, New York City, on April 23, 2017. Raised in Hackensack, N.J., Krueger was legendary in Israeli business circles and was the first banker to bring Israel to the international capital markets."</ref>
• Marc Kudisch (born 1966), stage actor<ref>"Marc Kudisch", Playbill. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Born: Sep 22, 1966 in Hackensack, NJ, USA"</ref>
• Lauren Lake (born 1969), lawyer and presiding judge of Lauren Lake's Paternity Court<ref>Rohan, Virginia. "Ex-North Jersey lawyer presides over new show 'Paternity Court'", The Record, September 21, 2013. Accessed May 12, 2016. "She moved to Teaneck, Hackensack, then back to Teaneck, then Edgewater and Cliffside Park, while also practicing law in the area."</ref>
• Rich LeFurgy (born Template:Circa), advertising consultant and investor<ref>Staff. "Digital Media Masters; Rich Lefurgy", Advertising Age, September 23, 1996. Accessed September 12, 2017. "Title: VP-director of advertising and marketing, Starwave Corp., Seattle Age/bio: 40; born in Hackensack, N.J."</ref>
• Coi Leray (born 1997), rapper and songwriter<ref>Seabrook III, Robby. "The Break Presents: Coi Leray", XXL, June 26, 2019. Accessed April 14, 2021. "Hometown: Hackensack, N.J."</ref>
• William Alexander Linn (1846–1917), journalist and historian<ref>A Thousand American Men of Mark To-day, p. 260. Accessed November 15, 2017. "William Alexander Linn Lawyer, Banker, Author of Hackensack, N.J. was born Sept 4. 1846, in Sussex, N.J"</ref>
• John Maessner (born 1969), soccer player and coach who played six seasons in Major League Soccer<ref>John Maessner, University of Central Missouri, November 1, 2014. Accessed May 12, 2016. "A native of Hackensack, New Jersey, Maessner graduated Virginia in 1992."</ref>
• Roger Mandle (1941–2020), art historian, curator and academic administrator, who was president of the Rhode Island School of Design<ref>"Nomination of E. Roger Mandle To Be a Member of the National Council on the Arts", The American Presidency Project, September 8, 1988. Accessed December 2, 2020. "Mr. Mandle graduated from Williams College (B.A., 1963). He was born May 13, 1941, in Hackensack, NJ."</ref>
• Hugh McCracken (1942–2013), rock guitarist and session musician<ref>Martin, Douglas. "Hugh McCracken, 70, Who Made His Sound in Studios", The New York Times, April 6, 2013. Accessed August 26, 2018. "Hugh Carmine McCracken was born on March 31, 1942, in Glen Ridge, N.J., and grew up in nearby Hackensack."</ref>
• James McEachin (born 1930), actor and author<ref>Degener, Richard. "'Forgotten War' Remembered / Cape Korean War Vets Honored At Naval Air Station Wildwood", The Press of Atlantic City, May 9, 2004. Accessed April 3, 2012. "'We left in silence and returned in deeper silence,' James McEachin said. The Hollywood actor and author of six books was the featured speaker at Korea Day. The Hackensack native volunteered to go to Korea and in October 1951, after segregated basic training in Fort Dix with the Army's all-black 24th Regiment..."</ref>
• Earl Schenck Miers (1910–1972), historian who wrote extensively about the American Civil War<ref>Staff. "Earl Schenck Miers Dies at 62; Wrote on Civil War and Lincoln", The New York Times, November 19, 1972. Accessed August 26, 2018. "Edison, N.J. Nov. 18 – Earl Schenck Miers was born in Brooklyn on May 27, 1910, and grew up in Hackensack."</ref>
• E. Frederic Morrow (Template:Circa–1994), the first African American to hold an executive position at the White House, when he served President Dwight Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961<ref>Saxon, Wolfgang. "E. Frederic Morrow, 88, Aide In Eisenhower Administration", The New York Times, July 21, 1994. Accessed November 25, 2017. "The son of a Methodist minister, Everett Frederic Morrow was born in Hackensack, N.J., and earned his bachelor and Doctor of Laws degrees at Rutgers University."</ref>
• John H. Morrow (1910–2000), diplomat, who was appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1959 as the first Ambassador to independent Guinea<ref>'Morrow, John Howard (1910-2000)", BlackPast.org. Accessed November 25, 2017. "He was born John Howard Morrow on February 5, 1910 in Hackensack, New Jersey to John and Mary Hayes Morrow."</ref>
• Don Nelson (1927–2013), screenwriter, film producer and jazz musician, best known for his work on the sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet<ref>Kelly, Devin. "Don Nelson dies at 86; writer for 'Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'; Screenwriter Don Nelson, younger brother of Ozzie Nelson, contributed to more than 200 episodes of the popular TV show 'Ozzie and Harriet.' He was also a jazz singer and saxophonist.", Los Angeles Times, September 11, 2013. Accessed May 11, 2017. "Donald Richard Nelson was born Jan. 20, 1927, in Hackensack, N.J., and grew up in the nearby borough of Tenafly."</ref>
• Richard Cooper Newick (1926–2013), multihull sailboat designer<ref>Martin, Douglas. "Dick Newick, Sailboat Design Visionary, Dies at 87", The New York Times, September 15, 2013. Accessed September 27, 2015. "Richard Cooper Newick, who his family said died of heart failure, was born in Hackensack, N.J., on May 9, 1926. He grew up in Rutherford, N.J., where at age 10 he built two kayaks with his father and brother."</ref>
• Donald Nichols (1923–1992), United States Air Force officer who worked in military intelligence<ref>Leebaert, Derek. To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda, p. 511. Little, Brown and Company, 2006. Template:ISBN. Accessed May 12, 2016. "... 'Mister Nichols', a hefty, thirty-seven-year-old former motor-pool sergeant from Hackensack, New Jersey, with a sixth-grade education. Donald Nichols was known in the ghost world Donald Nichols was known in the ghost world where he thrived as 'Lawrence of Korea'..."</ref>
• Dan Oates (born 1955), police chief of Miami Beach, Florida<ref>Naanes, Marlene; and Koloff, Abbott. Template:Usurped, The Record, July 23, 2012, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 13, 2013. Accessed November 25, 2017. "Daniel Oates, who, as the chief of police in Aurora, Colo., is in charge of investigating the most extensive mass shooting in the nation's history, grew up in Midland Park.... Oates was born in Hackensack and lived in Oradell before his family moved to Midland Park, his parents said.... He graduated from St. Joseph's Regional High School in 1973 and attended college at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he majored in English."</ref><ref>Daniel Oates ResumeTemplate:Dead link. University of Colorado. Accessed July 27, 2013</ref>
• Frederick Albion Ober (1849–1913), naturalist and writer<ref>Staff. "Frederick A. Ober Dead.; Noted Ornithologist and Explorer, Who Discovered New Bird Species.", The New York Times, June 2, 1913. Accessed April 10, 2011.</ref>
• Danny Oquendo (born 1987), wide receiver who played for the Maryland Terrapins football team<ref>Koloff, Abbott. "Trouble again finds ex-Hackensack High School football standout", The Record, June 30, 2013. Accessed May 12, 2016. "As he prepared for the biggest break of his young life, Ausar Walcott told football players at his alma mater, Hackensack High School, about a bad decision that nearly cost him his football career."</ref>
• Deborah Oropallo (born 1954), artist who is best known for her digital montages<ref>Deborah Oropallo, Monterey Museum of Art. Accessed May 6, 2021. "Deborah Oropallo (Hackensack, NJ, 1954 - ) American"</ref>
• William A. Pailes (born 1952), United States Air Force astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s whi served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis (October 3–7, 1985)<ref>Payload Specialist Astronaut Bio: William A. Pailes, NASA. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Born June 26, 1952, in Hackensack, New Jersey, but considers Kinnelon, New Jersey, to be his hometown."</ref>
• John B. Paolella (born 1949), politician who represented the 38th Legislative District in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature<ref>Staff. Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual, 1984, p. 233. Accessed August 12, 2019. "John B. Paolella, Rep., Hackensack - Senator Paolella was born in Hackensack Feb. 14, 1949. He attended Bergen Catholic High School in Oradell, and studied psychology at Harvard University, where he was graduated with honors in 1971."</ref>
• Nellie Morrow Parker (1902–1998), first African American school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey, and the namesake of Nellie K. Parker Elementary School<ref>Burstyn, Joan N. Past and Promise; Lives of New Jersey Women, p. 373. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Template:ISBN. Accessed November 25, 2017. "Nelle Katherine (Morrow) Parker was the first African-American public school teacher in Bergen County, NJ.... Parker was born August 27, 1902, in Hackensack, NJ, the second child and only daughter of John Eugene and Mary Ann (Hayes) Morrow."</ref>
• Randi Patterson (born 1985), former professional soccer player<ref>"Randi Patterson Named Second Team All-American by College Soccer News", UNCG Spartans, March 28, 2005. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Patterson, a native of Hackensack, NJ, was named the 2004 Southern Conference Player of the Year where he led the league in goals scored (19) and points (46)."</ref>
• Randolph E. Paul (1890–1956), lawyer specializing in tax law who has been credited as "...an architect of the modern tax system"<ref>Staff. "Randolph E. Paul Dies At Hearing; Roosevelt Adviser on Taxes Stricken While Testifying on U.S. Fiscal Policy Began as Phone Operator", The New York Times, February 7, 1956. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Mr. Paul was born in hackensack, N. J., Aug. 8, 1890, and worked his way through Amherst College."</ref>
• Bill Peck (Template:Circa–2017), football player and coach who was head coach of the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team in the 1970s<ref>Williams, Joe. "63 years into coaching career, Mount Dora assistant, 86, exudes youthful enthusiasm", Orlando Sentinel, August 6, 2013. Accessed December 11, 2018. "A native of Hackensack, N.J., Peck quit high school after his junior year in 1943 to enlist in the Army."</ref>
• Melissa Perello (born 1976), chef<ref>Rising Star Chef Melissa Perello of Frances - Biography, StarChefs, November 2011. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Perello knew at a young age that she wanted to be a chef."</ref>
• Stan Pitula (1931–1965), right-handed pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians<ref>Smith, Steve. Stan Pitula, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Stanley Pitula Jr. was born March 23, 1931, in Hackensack, New Jersey."</ref>
• Charles Lane Poor (1866–1951), astronomy professor, noted for his opposition to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity<ref>The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, p. 224. J. T. White Company, 1910. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Poor, Charles Lane, astronomer and scientist, was born in Hackensack, N. J., Jan. 18, 1866."</ref>
• Willie Prall (born 1950), pitcher who appeared in three games in 1950 for the Chicago Cubs<ref>Willie Prall, Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed May 12, 2016.</ref>
• George Prévost (1767–1816), British Army officer and colonial administrator<ref>Sir George Prévost, National Park Service. Accessed May 12, 2016. "Place of Birth: Hackensack, Colony of New Jersey"</ref>
• Jahvon Quinerly (born 1998), college basketball player for the Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team<ref>Jahvon Quinerly, Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball. Accessed March 30, 2021. "Hometown: Hackensack, N.J."</ref>
• Alice Huyler Ramsey (1886–1983), first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast<ref>America on the Move: Other Early Trips, Smithsonian Institution. Accessed May 12, 2016. "In 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey, of Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States."</ref>
• John R. Ramsey (1862–1933), politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1921<ref>Official Congressional Directory, Volume 65, p. 65. United States Congress. Accessed May 12, 2016. "John Rathbone Ramsey, Republican, of Hackensack, was born at Wyckoff, N. J., April 25, 1862, the son of John F. and Martha (Rathbone) Ramsey, and spent much of his early life with his maternal grandfather John V. Rathbone in Parkersburg, W. Va. where he received a private-school education."</ref>
• David Remnick (born 1958), journalist, writer, and magazine editor who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire<ref>Frank, Steve. "Goodbye to 'The New Yorker'", The Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2012. Accessed May 12, 2016. "One can only surmise that Remnick is working out his own conflicted identity issues (Remnick was born of Jewish parents in Hackensack, New Jersey) on the company dime."</ref>
• Hezly Rivera (born 2008), artistic gymnast<ref>Hezly Rivera, USA Gymnastics, Accessed May 9, 2023. "Birthplace: Hackensack, NJ; Hometown: Oradell, NJ"</ref>
• Joe Rizzo (born 1998), professional baseball third baseman<ref>Joe Rizzo, Minor League Baseball. Accessed November 16, 2022. "Born: 3/31/1998 in Hackensack, NJ"</ref>
• Nicholas Romayne (1756–1817), physician<ref>Lossing, Benson John. History of New York City: Embracing an Outline Sketch of Events from 1609 to 1830, and a Full Account of Its Development from 1830 to 1884, Volume 1, p. 119. A.S. Barnes & Company, 1884. Accessed May 17, 2016. "Nicholas Romayne, M.D., was born in Hackensack, N.J., in September 1756 and studied medicine under Dr. Peter Wilson."</ref>
• Hatch Rosdahl (1941–2004), football player who played for the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs<ref>Gavin, John A. Template:Usurped, The Record, June 18, 2004. Accessed July 31, 2014. "Ridgefield Park – Harrison 'Hatch' Rosdahl, a professional football player for seven years, died from injuries suffered in a fall at his home Tuesday. He was 62. Mr. Rosdahl was born in Hackensack."</ref>
• Jason Rullo (born 1972), professional drummer, one of the founding members of progressive metal band Symphony X<ref>Mike Portnoy, amazingdrumgod.blogspot.com, September 22, 2007. Accessed November 2, 2013</ref><ref>Staff. drumstudio.ca Template:Webarchive. Accessed November 2, 2013</ref>
• Alfred D. Schiaffo (1920–1988), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from the 13th district from 1968 to 1973<ref>"Alfred D. Schiaffo, 68, Judge and Politician", The New York Times, November 8, 1988. Accessed May 17, 2020. "Alfred D. Schiaffo, a judge in New Jersey Superior Court and a former Republican majority leader of the State Senate, died Saturday at Englewood (N.J.) Hospital after a brief illness. He was 68 years old and lived in Hackensack."</ref>
• Wally Schirra (1923–2007), NASA astronaut, one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury<ref>About Wally, WallySchirra.com. Accessed May 18, 2016. "Born March 12, 1923, in Hackensack, New Jersey."</ref><ref>Savage, Brett. "Jersey's Other Space Pioneer: Wally Schirra; To commemorate Jersey astronaut Wally Schirrra's historic first mission in space, we present a list of his notable space-age achievements.", New Jersey Monthly, September 10, 2012. Accessed May 17, 2016. "That honor belongs to Hackensack-born Wally Schirra, who on October 3, 1962, became the fifth American to orbit the earth as part of the original Project Mercury team."</ref>
• Walter G. Schroeder (1927–2021), politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993<ref>"Extension Oral History Project - Walt Schroeder – Part 1", Oregon Digital, October 28, 2007. Accessed May 17, 2016. "Well, I was born in a little town, at that time, called Hackensack, New Jersey which was the county seat of Bergen County."</ref>
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• Robert Stiles (born 1959), field hockey player who competed in the men's tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics<ref>Template:Usurped, Sports-Reference.com. Accessed October 15, 2019. "Born: September 12, 1959 (Age 60.033, YY.DDD) in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States"</ref>
• Adel Tankova (born 2000), Ukrainian-born Israeli Olympic figure skater who competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics<ref name=ISU>Adel TANKOVA / Ronald ZILBERBERG, International Skating Union. Accessed February 17, 2018.</ref>
• Warren Terhune (1869–1920), United States Navy Commander and the 13th Governor of American Samoa<ref>Staff. "Samoan Governor Commits Suicide; Naval Commander Terhune of Hackensack, N.J., Shoots Himself When Suspended. was to face an inquiry Troubles with Natives Led to Charges Against His Administration There.", The New York Times, November 6, 1920. Accessed May 17, 2016.</ref>
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• Joe Lynn Turner (born 1951), singer<ref>Aberback, Brian. Template:Usurped, The Record, February 24, 2016, backed up by the Internet Archive as of August 8, 2016. Accessed November 25, 2017. "Hackensack native Joe Lynn Turner says his prolific career as a solo artist, singer with the legendary English rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow, and backing vocalist on albums by high-profile artists like Billy Joel can be traced to his Bergen County upbringing."</ref>
• Rudy Van Gelder (1924–2016), recording engineer who taped many jazz albums for Blue Note Records in his Hackensack recording studio in the 1950s<ref>Zan, Stewart. "The state of jazz: Meet 40 more Jersey greats" Template:Webarchive, The Star-Ledger, September 28, 2003. Accessed June 14, 2007.</ref><ref>Phelan, J. Greg. "He Helped Put the Blue in Blue Note", The New York Times, May 22, 2005. Accessed April 4, 2012. "He opened it in 1959, after spending most of the 1950s recording people like Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley in his parents' living room in Hackensack and refining the sound of recorded jazz working with Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records and other producers."</ref>
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• Charles H. Voorhis (1833–1896), lawyer and judge from New Jersey who served one term representing New Jersey's 5th congressional district<ref>Staff. "Charles H. Voorhis A Suicide.; Was Formerly a Congressman and a New-Jersey Judge.", The New York Times, April 16, 1896. Accessed May 17, 2016. ""Charles H. Voorhis was born in Hackensack sixty-four years ago."</ref>
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