Editing New Jersey Route 5 (section)

==History==
[[File:2021-09-19 14 58 11 View east along New Jersey State Route 5 from the overpass for New Jersey State Route 63 and Bergen County Route 501 (Bergen Boulevard) in Fort Lee, Bergen County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|left|Route 5 eastbound past Route 63 in Fort Lee]]
Pre-1927 Route&nbsp;10 was legislated in 1916 to run from [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]] east by way of [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]] and Ridgefield to the [[Public Service Railway]]'s [[Fort Lee Ferry]] at Edgewater. From Paterson it used the existing '''Paterson and Hackensack Turnpike''' (Market Street and Essex Street, legislated in 1815) to Hackensack and the [[Bergen Turnpike]] (Hudson Street) to Ridgefield.<ref name="1920r10">{{cite report|title=1916 Annual Report|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|date=1916}}</ref> Rather than use existing roads from Ridgefield down the Palisades to Edgewater, a whole new route was surveyed with better [[Grade (slope)|grades]]. This road was built by 1922. At its east end, Route 10 ran south several blocks on River Road to the ferry, just south of Dempsey Avenue. In Ridgefield, Broad Avenue was used to get between the new alignment and Bergen Turnpike.<ref name="Map2">{{cite map|title=Official 1922 Auto Trails Map|date=1922|url=http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/maps/1922rm1.jpg|publisher=Rand McNally|access-date=2008-10-20}}</ref>

In the [[1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering]], Route&nbsp;10 was renumbered to Route&nbsp;5. Plans at the time were to build a new alignment from east of Ridgefield to [[Little Ferry, New Jersey|Little Ferry]] southeast of Hackensack and form [[Route S5 (New Jersey)|Route&nbsp;S5]] (now locally maintained) along the old road from Little Ferry to Ridgefield. The new [[Route 6 (New Jersey)|Route&nbsp;6]] would share the alignment of Route&nbsp;5 from Paterson to west of Hackensack, where it would turn southeast onto a new alignment to Little Ferry, then run with Route 5 again to east of Ridgefield and split onto its own alignment to the [[George Washington Bridge]].<ref name=nj1927>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.</ref><ref name="Map">{{cite map|url=http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|title=1927 New Jersey Road Map|publisher=State of New Jersey|access-date=2008-10-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313112746/http://jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|archive-date=2016-03-13}}</ref>

[[File:NJ 10N (cutout).svg|thumb|right|100px|Route 10N]]In 1929, the routes were redefined. Route&nbsp;6 would be a completely new alignment from Paterson to the George Washington Bridge, and Route&nbsp;5 would only run east from [[Route 1 (New Jersey)|Route&nbsp;1]] (Broad Avenue, now US&nbsp;1/9) in Ridgefield.<ref name=nj1929>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1929, Chapter 126.</ref> The alignment of Route&nbsp;10 west of Ridgefield was designated Route&nbsp;10N until it was eventually turned over to the county.<ref name=nj1939>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1939, complied.</ref> Route 5 retained its routing in the [[1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering]].<ref name="nj1953">{{Cite journal|title=1953 renumbering|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways|access-date=July 31, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183145/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref> By the 2000s, the section of Route&nbsp;5 along River Road to the former ferry was removed.<ref name="rm">{{cite map|publisher=[[Rand McNally]]|title=United States-Canada-Mexico Road Atlas|year=1996}}</ref> In June 2007, construction began on a $24.6 million project to improve the route through Palisades Park. This project, which was completed in late 2009, involved the replacement of the bridge over Delia Boulevard, the removal of a bridge over an abandoned rail line, and the widening of the two-lane road to include a shoulder.<ref name=njdot>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/about/press/2007/053007.shtm|title=NJDOT announces Route 5 bridge replacement project in Palisades Park, Bergen County |date=May 30, 2007|publisher=[[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]|access-date=2009-03-11}}</ref>