Editing North Bergen, New Jersey (section)

==History==
===Colonial era===
At the time of European colonization the area was the territory of [[Hackensack tribe]] of the [[Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]],<ref>Wright, Kevin W. [http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/indians.html ''The Indigenous Population of Bergen County''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120051116/http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/indians.html |date=January 20, 2019 }}, Bergen County Historical Society. Accessed March 20, 2015.</ref> who maintained a settlement, Espatingh, on the west side of the hills<ref>{{cite web | title = H New Jersey Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements | work = A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico | publisher = Access Genealogy | url = http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/handbook/h_new_jersey_indian_towns.htm | access-date = January 30, 2011 | archive-date = March 15, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120315133226/http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/handbook/h_new_jersey_indian_towns.htm | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last = Hodge | first = Federick Webb | title = Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Volumes 2–4 | publisher = The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians Volume II H-M | year = 1912 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=68ERQ9fkyTMC&q=Espatingh&pg=PA545 | isbn = 978-1-58218-749-5 | access-date = November 7, 2020 | archive-date = September 30, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230930135933/https://books.google.com/books?id=68ERQ9fkyTMC&q=Espatingh&pg=PA545 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/historycountyhu00winfgoog/page/n74 <!-- pg=62 quote="by the great rock above wiehacken". --> ''History of the County of Hudson, New Jersey, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time'']</ref> and where a Dutch [[trading post]] was established after the [[Peach War]].<ref>Clayton, W. Woodford; and Nelson, William. [http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/w-woodford-clayton/history-of-bergen-and-passaic-counties-yal/page-23-history-of-bergen-and-passaic-counties-yal.shtml "History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823115542/http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/w-woodford-clayton/history-of-bergen-and-passaic-counties-yal/page-23-history-of-bergen-and-passaic-counties-yal.shtml |date=August 23, 2012 }}, p. 23. Everts & Peck, 1882. Accessed September 10, 2015.</ref> In 1658, [[Peter Stuyvesant]], then [[Director-General of New Netherland]], repurchased from them the area now encompassed by the municipalities of Hudson County east of the [[Hackensack River]]. This is commemorated in a [[New Deal]] [[List of United States post office murals|post off mural]] entitled ''Purchase of Territory of North Bergen from the Indians''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hudpost.com/purchase-of-territory-of-north-bergen-from-the-indians/|title=Purchase of Territory of North Bergen from the Indians|date=November 22, 2018|website=HudPost|access-date=August 19, 2023|archive-date=August 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819125604/https://hudpost.com/purchase-of-territory-of-north-bergen-from-the-indians/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/post-office-mural-north-bergen-nj/|title=Post Office Mural - North Bergen NJ|website=LivingDeal|access-date=August 19, 2023|archive-date=August 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819130829/https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/post-office-mural-north-bergen-nj/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1660 Stuyvesant granted permission to establish the semi-autonomous colony of [[Bergen, New Netherland|Bergen]], with the main village located at today's [[Bergen Square]], considered to be the first chartered municipality in what would become the state of New Jersey.<ref>[http://www.njcu.edu/Programs/jchistory/Pages/B_Pages/Bergen_Township.htm Bergen Township: Original boundaries included most of present-day Hudson County, East of Newark Bay and the Hackensack River.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915040457/http://www.njcu.edu/Programs/jchistory/Pages/B_Pages/Bergen_Township.htm |date=2008-09-15 }}, [[New Jersey City University]]. Accessed December 22, 2011. "The village of Bergen, officially begun on September 5, 1661, is regarded as New Jersey's first permanent settlement and the state's first local civil government. It is now part of the City of Jersey City."</ref> At the time, the area of North Bergen was heavily forested, traversed by paths used by the indigenous and colonizing population and became known as Bergen Woods, a name recalled in today's neighborhood of [[Bergenwood, North Bergen|Bergenwood]].

After the 1664 surrender of [[Fort Amsterdam]] the entire [[New Netherland]] colony came into the possession of the British, who established the [[Province of New Jersey]]. In 1682, the [[East Jersey]] legislature formed the state's first four counties, including Bergen County, which consisted of all the land in the peninsula between the [[Hackensack River|Hackensack]] and [[North River (Hudson River)|Hudson River]]s; that is, the eastern portions of what today is [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen]] and [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson Counties]].<ref>Clayton, W. Woodford; and Nelson, William. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zDEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 ''History of Bergen and Passaic counties, New Jersey: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men''], p. 80. Everts & Peck, 1882. Accessed December 22, 2011 "IN December, 1682, the Assembly of East Jersey passed an act dividing the province into four counties, viz.: Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth. Bergen included all of the settlements between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, and extended to the northern boundary of the province."</ref> In 1693, Bergen County was divided into two townships: [[Hackensack Township, New Jersey|Hackensack Township]] in the north, and [[Bergen Township, New Jersey (1661–1862)|Bergen Township]], encompassing the [[Bergen Neck]] peninsula, in the south. The border between the two townships is the current Hudson-Bergen county line.<ref>{{cite web | last = Grundy | first = J. Owen | author-link = J. Owen Grundy | author2 = Caroselli, Louis P. | title = Jersey City History of Forms of Government from Early Dutch Days to the Present Time | publisher = Jersey City Online | year = 1970 | url = http://www.jerseycityonline.com/history_of_jersey_city.htm | access-date = February 4, 2011 | archive-date = March 22, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110322192926/http://www.jerseycityonline.com/history_of_jersey_city.htm | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Lang, Arnold |title=Bergen County's Townships and Municipalities, Part 1: 1682 to 1709 |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/gsbcArch01.html |publisher= The Archivist | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20081202041732/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/gsbcArch01.html | archive-date =December 2, 2008 |access-date=December 22, 2011}}</ref>

While settlement was sparse, communities developed along the [[Bergen Turnpike]] at the [[Three Pigeons]] and [[Maisland]], later [[New Durham, North Bergen|New Durham]]. French botanist [[André Michaux]] developed his gardens nearby. On the Hudson River, [[Bulls Ferry]] became an important landing for crossings to [[Manhattan]]. While ostensibly under British control during the [[American Revolutionary War]], the area was patrolled by the Americans on [[Forage War|foraging]], espionage, and raiding expeditions,<ref name=jc>{{cite web|last=Grundy|first=Owen|title=History of Forms of Government from Early Dutch days to the present time|url=http://www.jerseycityonline.com/jc_history.htm|work=Jersey City Online|access-date=October 1, 2010|author2=Caroselli, Louis P.|year=1970|archive-date=July 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729134200/http://www.jerseycityonline.com/jc_history.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = Menssouls>{{cite book|title=The Revolutionary War in Bergen County: The Times That Tried Men's Souls|first=Carol|last=Karels|isbn=978-1-59629-358-8|publisher=History Press|year=2007|location=Charleston, SC}}</ref> most notably the [[Battle of Bull's Ferry]].

===Toponymy, secession, and urbanization===
On February 22, 1838, [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]] was incorporated as a separate municipality,<ref>Winfield, Charles Hardenburg. [https://archive.org/details/historycountyhu00winfgoog/page/n304 <!-- pg=288 --> "History of the county of Hudson, New Jersey: from its earliest settlement"], p. 289. Kennard & Hay Stationery M'fg and Print. Co., 1874. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> and in 1840 Hudson County, comprising the city and [[Bergen Township, New Jersey (pre-1862)|Bergen Township]], was created from the southern portion of Bergen County.<ref name="jc"/><ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Barber | first1 = John W. | author-link = John Warner Barber | last2 = Howe | first2 = Henry | author2-link = Henry Howe | title = Hudson County Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey | place = New York | publisher = S. Tuttle | year = 1844 | chapter = Hudson County | url = http://history.rays-place.com/nj/hudson-cty.htm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120709112859/http://history.rays-place.com/nj/hudson-cty.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 9, 2012 }}</ref> North Bergen was incorporated as a township on April 10, 1843, by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]], from the northern portion of Bergen Township.<ref name=Story/> At the time, the town included everything east of the Hackensack River and north of and including what is now [[The Heights, Jersey City|Jersey City Heights]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Lang, Arnold |title=Bergen County's Townships and Municipalities, Part 3 1836 to 1893 |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/gsbcArch03.html |publisher= The Archivist | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915120203/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/gsbcArch03.html | archive-date = September 15, 2008 | access-date=December 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | author1 = Barber, John W. | author2 = Howe, Henry | title = North Bergen, NJ from Historical Collections Of The State Of New Jersey | place = New York | publisher = S. Tuttle | year = 1844 | access-date = May 10, 2011 | url = http://history.rays-place.com/nj/n-bergen-nj.htm | archive-date = July 10, 2012 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120710001752/http://history.rays-place.com/nj/n-bergen-nj.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The entire region that is now known as [[North Hudson, New Jersey|North Hudson]] experienced massive immigration and urbanization during the latter half of the 19th century, and led to the creation of various new towns. Portions of the North Bergen were taken to form Hoboken Township (April 9, 1849, now the City of [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]]), Hudson Town (April 12, 1852, later part of Hudson City), [[Hudson City, New Jersey|Hudson City]] (April 11, 1855, later merged with [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]), [[Guttenberg, New Jersey|Guttenberg]] (formed within the township on March 9, 1859, and set off as an independent municipality on April 1, 1878), [[Weehawken, New Jersey|Weehawken]] (March 15, 1859), [[Union Township, Hudson County, New Jersey|Union Township]] and [[West Hoboken, New Jersey|West Hoboken Township]] (both created on February 28, 1861), [[Union, Hudson County, New Jersey|Union Hill town]] (March 29, 1864) and [[Secaucus, New Jersey|Secaucus]] (March 12, 1900).<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://nj.gov/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 145. Accessed May 30,2024.</ref> During this era many of [[List of cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County's cemeteries]] were developed along the town's western slope of the [[Hudson Palisades]].

At their foot in the [[New Jersey Meadowlands|Meadowlands]], the [[Erie Railroad|Erie]], the [[New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway|New York, Susquehanna and Western]] and the [[West Shore Railroad|West Shore]] railroads ran [[Right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-ways]] to their terminals on the [[North River (Hudson River)|Hudson]], the last building its [[Bergenline Avenue (HBLR station)|tunnel]] through [[Bergen Hill]] at North Bergen.<ref>[http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=700173 "Design And Construction Of The Weehawken Tunnel And Bergenline Avenue Station For The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929025531/http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=700173 |date=September 29, 2011 }}, Transportation Research Board, accessed May 10, 2011.</ref> The area was important destination during peak [[German immigration to the United States]] and is recalled today in [[Schuetzen Park (New Jersey)|Schuetzen Park]], founded in 1874. Further north, [[Racetrack Section, North Bergen|Nungesser's Guttenberg Racetrack]] became a notable and notorious destination which, after its closing, became a proving ground for new technologies: the automobile and the airplane.<ref name=Racetrack>[http://colinsghost.org/2010/01/winter-racing-at-new-jerseys-guttenberg-race-track-1885-1893.html Ractrack "Winter Racing at New Jersey's Guttenberg Race Track, 1885–1893"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725185703/http://colinsghost.org/2010/01/winter-racing-at-new-jerseys-guttenberg-race-track-1885-1893.html |date=July 25, 2011 }}, Colin's Ghost: Thoroughbred Racing History, Jan 28, 2010.</ref><ref>Ryall, G. F. T. [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/12/14/the-race-track-393 "The Race Track"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614044627/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/12/14/the-race-track-393 |date=June 14, 2018 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', December 14, 1957. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/16/archives/fire-ends-old-guttenburg-blaze-seen-from-manhattan-destroys-the.html?searchResultPosition=1 "Fire Ends Old Guttenburg.; Blaze Seen from Manhattan Destroys the Clubhouse, Latterly on Inn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430165523/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/16/archives/fire-ends-old-guttenburg-blaze-seen-from-manhattan-destroys-the.html?searchResultPosition=1 |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 16, 1910. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/08/archives/three-planes-fall-one-beheads-a-boy-former-army-pilots-arrested.html "Three Planes Fall; One Beheads A Boy; Former Army Pilots Arrested After Their Propeller Kills Jersey Lad at Play. Biplane Engine Goes Dead Lieut. Stinson Lands in Flatbush Lettuce Patch—A Coney Island Mishap"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430165523/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/08/archives/three-planes-fall-one-beheads-a-boy-former-army-pilots-arrested.html |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 8, 1921. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/27/archives/moroks-aeroplane-interrupts-toilet-transhudson-flyers-machine-comes.html "Morok's Aeroplane Interrupts Toilet; Trans-Hudson Flyer's Machine Comes to Grief in a Young Woman's Window "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613210719/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/27/archives/moroks-aeroplane-interrupts-toilet-transhudson-flyers-machine-comes.html |date=June 13, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 27, 1910. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/26/archives/bandit-robs-a-train-gets-more-than-100-wallets-and-watches-from.html "Bandit Robs a Train"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430164019/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/26/archives/bandit-robs-a-train-gets-more-than-100-wallets-and-watches-from.html |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 26, 1910. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref>

===20th century===
The development of Hudson County Boulevard, which skirts around the west, north and east of North Bergen, was completed in the early 20th century. By 1913 it was considered to be fine for "motoring".<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/23/100258550.pdf "Short Runs Near Town Pleasant Now"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720163425/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/03/23/100258550.pdf |date=July 20, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 23, 1913. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref> The roadway is now known by its two sections: [[County Route 501 (New Jersey)|Kennedy Boulevard]] and [[Boulevard East]].

Residential districts along and between the two boulevards were developed.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/08/12/105198282.pdf "The Hudson Boulevard; The old and the New – The Opposition and the Proposed Route"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720163236/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/08/12/105198282.pdf |date=July 20, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 12, 1873. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/11/29/103375853.pdf "Opening the Boulevard; Wheelmen Parade Along Hudson County's New Driveway"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720163605/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/11/29/103375853.pdf |date=July 20, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 29, 1895. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref> [[Bergenline Avenue]], a broad street which accommodated the [[North Hudson County Railway]] [[tram|streetcars]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1909/06/20/archives/new-developments-beyond-the-palisades.html "New Developments Beyond the Palisades"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613210816/https://www.nytimes.com/1909/06/20/archives/new-developments-beyond-the-palisades.html |date=June 13, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 20, 1909. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref> to [[Nungesser's]] became (and remains) an important commercial and transit corridor. The two boulevard sections met at Bergenline Avenue, at the northwest corner of North Hudson/Braddock Park.

[[File:8.7.09BraddockParkByLuigiNovi17.jpg|thumb|left|James J. Braddock North Hudson County Park and the [[Stonehenge (building)|Stonehenge]]]]
Soon after the opening of the [[New Jersey Route 495|Lincoln Tunnel Approach]], the [[Susquehanna Transfer]] was opened in August 1939 to accommodate passengers who wished to transfer to buses through the [[Lincoln Tunnel|tunnel]] to the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]].<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1939/08/03/archives/busrail-service-draws-commuters-the-susquehanna-encouraged-by.html "Bus-Rail Service Draws Commuters; The Susquehanna Encouraged by Experiment as Business Improves on 2d Day Travel Time Is Reduced Company Will Connect With More Terminals in City Should Trend Continue"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705071442/https://www.nytimes.com/1939/08/03/archives/busrail-service-draws-commuters-the-susquehanna-encouraged-by.html |date=July 5, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 3, 1939. Accessed July 4, 2018. "Seventy-seven passengers crossed the platform of a new station known as Susquehanna Transfer, near Bergen, N. J., to Manhattan-bound buses yesterday, the second day of the operation of the new service&nbsp;... The new station is under the elevated highway leading from the Lincoln Tunnel over the Jersey marshes."</ref> It closed in 1966.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119953303/revival-of-commuter-service-in-north/ "Commuter rail line's revival pushed"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301152300/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119953303/revival-of-commuter-service-in-north/ |date=March 1, 2023 }}, ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', December 30, 1986. Accessed March 1, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "The second possibility would be to run the trains through Paterson on Susquehanna tracks to Weehawken{{sic}}, where passengers would switch to buses for the ride through the Lincoln Tunnel to the Port Authority terminal. A similar bus service, known as the Susquehanna Transfer, operated between 1939 and 1966."</ref>

At the time of its construction in 1949, the {{convert|760|ft|adj=on}} [[WOR TV Tower]], in the midst of the residential [[Woodcliff, North Bergen|Woodcliff Section]],<ref>Staff. [http://hawkins.pair.com/wor-tv-NB_News.html#Plans "WOR Television Tower To Be in North Bergen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121122108/http://hawkins.pair.com/wor-tv-NB_News.html#Plans |date=November 21, 2010 }}, copy of article from ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', June 8, 1948. Accessed January 1, 2015.</ref> was the tenth-tallest man-made structure in the world.<ref>[http://hawkins.pair.com/wor-tv-NBergenNJ.html WOR-TV and FM Transmitter in North Bergen, NJ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415232526/http://hawkins.pair.com/wor-tv-NBergenNJ.html |date=April 15, 2011 }}, accessed January 25, 2011</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1922/08/14/archives/bombs-strike-two-cars-two-babies-among-the-injured-in-attack-on.html "Bombs Strike Two Cars; Two Babies Among the Injured in Attack on West Shore Train. Panic Spreads Quickly Engineer Keeps On Until Emergency Cord Is Pulled After Second Attack. Darkness Adds to Terror Third Missile Explodes as TrainIs Brought to a Halt NearTrestle at Granton, N.J."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430165525/https://www.nytimes.com/1922/08/14/archives/bombs-strike-two-cars-two-babies-among-the-injured-in-attack-on.html |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 14, 1922. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref><ref>[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872273,00.html "Science: First Flight"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430164019/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872273,00.html |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', April 14, 1961. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref> The tower was dismantled in 1956 but in 1967, about half a mile (2500&nbsp;m) to the east, the 34-story, {{convert|369|ft|adj=on}} [[Stonehenge (building)|Stonehenge]] apartment building was constructed on the tip of the Palisades.<ref name="The Stonehenge on the Palisades">.{{cite web| title=The Stonehenge on the Palisades| publisher=Millstein Properties| url=http://www.thestonehengeapts.com/overview/| access-date=2014-06-06| archive-date=August 4, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804141254/http://www.thestonehengeapts.com/overview/| url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the early 1960s two notable [[Paleontology|paleontological finds]] of [[fossil]]s from the [[Newark Basin]] were made near the foot of the cliffs at one of several former quarries, the Granton, of which today's avenue is a namesake.<ref>Tirella, Tricia. [https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2010/04/29/nb-fossil-has-nj-homecoming-2/ "NB fossil has NJ homecoming; Former resident remembers Granton Quarry"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531192249/https://archive.hudsonreporter.com/2010/04/29/nb-fossil-has-nj-homecoming-2/ |date=May 31, 2019 }}, ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'', April 29, 2010. Accessed November 13, 2019. "It may be difficult to imagine North Bergen as a place to collect fossils, but it once was. According to the American Museum of Natural History, Granton Quarry resided on the back slope of the Palisades Cliffs, between railroad lines and Tonnelle Avenue. Nowadays, a Lowes Home Building Center and Tonnelle Plaza sit on the site."</ref> The former [[quarry]] remained an [[archeological site]] until at least 1980.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/13/archives/for-geologists-finding-fossils-makes-jersey-outing-worth-the-trip-a.html "For Geologists, Finding Fossils Makes Jersey Outing Worth the Trip; A Painted Memory 'A Funny Science' 'A Great Sound'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705071738/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/13/archives/for-geologists-finding-fossils-makes-jersey-outing-worth-the-trip-a.html |date=July 5, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 13, 1980. Accessed July 4, 2018. "The fish fossil was found on a field trip to the Granton quarry in North Bergen, N.J., one of many conducted as part of this year's annual meeting of the New York State Geological Association."</ref>

North Hudson Park was renamed the [[Hudson County Park System|James J. Braddock North Hudson County Park]]. In 1935, while living in North Bergen, local hero [[James J. Braddock]] won the [[List of heavyweight boxing champions|world heavyweight championship]] in one of the most stunning upsets in boxing history.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120414232517/http://nynjctbotany.org/njnbtofc/braddock.html James J. Braddock  –  North Hudson County Park]}}, nynjctbotany.org. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref>

In contrast to other Hudson County communities during the latter half of the century, North Bergen grew significantly in population. Many residents are part of the wave of [[Spanish language]] speakers which had begun in the 1960s with Cuban [[émigré]]s, leading to the nickname, [[Havana on the Hudson]].<ref>[[Calvin Trillin|Trillin, Calvin]]. [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1975/06/30/1975_06_30_094_TNY_CARDS_000317996 "US Journal: Observation While Eating Carne Asada on Bergenline Avenue"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021171142/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1975/06/30/1975_06_30_094_TNY_CARDS_000317996 |date=October 21, 2012 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', June 30, 1975. Accessed January 1, 2015.</ref><ref name="Harbinger">Gray, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/23/nyregion/hudson-county-a-harbinger-of-a-new-hispanic-influence.html "Hudson County a Harbinger of a New Hispanic Influence"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921002229/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/23/nyregion/hudson-county-a-harbinger-of-a-new-hispanic-influence.html |date=September 21, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 23, 1991. Accessed January 1, 2015.</ref>