Editing Fort Lee, New Jersey (section)

==In media==
[[Image:Constitution Park Fort Lee New Jersey.JPG|thumb|Constitution Park in Fort Lee. In the background are the Mediterranean Towers apartment complex.]]
* The borough was mentioned in "[[Weekend Update]]" segments involving fictional [[consumer protection|consumer affairs]] reporter [[Roseanne Roseannadanna]], played by [[Gilda Radner]], who almost always began reading letters by saying, "A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey, writes in and says...." Feder was the brother-in-law of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' writer and segment co-creator [[Alan Zweibel]] and an actual Fort Lee resident until he moved to [[West Nyack, New York]], in 1981.<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19800210&id=66QyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P-cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4741,1684263 "Did you ever want to know who Richard Feder really is?"], ''[[Lawrence Journal-World]]'', February 10, 1980. Accessed September 7, 2014.</ref><ref>Flegenheimer, Matt. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/nyregion/a-mr-feder-once-of-fort-lee-chimes-in.html "A Mr. Feder, Once of Fort Lee, Chimes In"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 11, 2014. Accessed September 7, 2014. "More than 30 years ago, Mr. Feder, 64, was perhaps Fort Lee's best-known resident, celebrated by a recurring character played by Gilda Radner on ''Saturday Night Live.'' The character, Roseanne Roseannadanna, would begin her segment on 'Weekend Update' by saying, 'A Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, N.J., writes in and says ...'"</ref>
* In the 1984 film, ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]'', the character played by [[Jeff Goldblum]] (Dr. Sidney Zwibel/New Jersey) introduces himself as being from Fort Lee, earning him the nickname "New Jersey".<ref>[[Earl Mac Rauch|Rauch, Earl Mac]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kddIYWJRpQcC&pg=PA96 ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai''], p. 96. [[Simon and Schuster]], 2001. {{ISBN|9780743442480}}. Accessed December 3, 2017. "'Fellows, this is Sid Zwibel,' said Buckaroo. 'He'll be riding with us as an observer for a few days, so give him the treatment.' 'Don't worry. We will,' said Tommy. 'The treatment?' asked Sid, quailing. 'Where do you hail from, Doc?' I asked. 'Fort Lee,' he said. 'New Jersey.'"</ref>
* In ''[[Desperately Seeking Susan]]'', the main character Roberta (played by [[Rosanna Arquette]]) is from Fort Lee. A key thematic element of the film is the contrast between Roberta's life in New Jersey and her desire to experience Susan's lifestyle in New York City.<ref>Willistein, Paul. [https://www.mcall.com/1985/04/13/desperately-seeking-susan-a-tale-of-two-cultures/ "Desperately Seeking Susan' A Tale Of Two Cultures"], ''[[The Morning Call]]'', April 13, 1985. Accessed January 18, 2015. "The story concerns Roberta (Rosanna Arquette), a Fort Lee, N.J., housewife who, bored with her beauty shop world, follows the newspaper personals romance of Jim (Robert Joy) and Susan (Madonna). In the latest ad, Jim announces he's ''Desperately Seeking Susan''.... The way she makes Roberta's decision to leave behind her Fort Lee life is representative of Seidelman's shorthand style - not unlike French farce and with a storyboard swiftness that recalls Hitchcock."</ref>
* [[Martin Scorsese]] directed several scenes of ''[[Goodfellas]]'' in Fort Lee.<ref name=Birthplace>Fort Lee Film Commission. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&pg=PA115 ''Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry''], p. 115. [[Arcadia Publishing]], 2006. {{ISBN|9780738545011}}. Accessed August 31, 2015. "The most interesting film shot in Fort Lee in the modern era was ''Goodfellas'' (Warner Brothers, 1990). Director Martin Scorsese, who is a leading film scholar, knows the history of film in Fort Lee and shot key scenes of this film blocks away from locations used by D. W. Griffith in the first classic gangster film, ''The Musketeers of Pig Alley'' (Biograph, 1912)."</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/locations Filming Locations for ''Goodfellas''], [[Internet Movie Database]]. Accessed May 14, 2007.</ref>
* Chabad of Fort Lee, a synagogue, was used as the filming location for the [[Queens]], [[New York City]], residence of Detective [[Elliot Stabler]] on ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''.<ref>Kimpton, Roger. [http://issuu.com/hudsonreporter/docs/v4n3_pmag_web_reduced/12 "Hollywood on the Palisades"], ''Palisade'' magazine, Summer 2010; Page 14. Accessed July 8, 2014.</ref>
* In late March 2011, a group of teenagers reported that they had been detained by the Fort Lee Police Department who left them in a police van parked for 14 hours overnight at headquarters. The detainees, who said that they had no food, water or access to bathrooms during that time, were released after passers-by heard their screams.<ref>[http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Police-Forget-Van-Full-of-Teens-118785669.html "Police Leave Teens Locked in Van For Hours: 'It was the worst thing that ever possibly happened to me,' one boy says."], [[WNBC]], March 29, 2011. Accessed April 5, 2011.</ref> In December 2013, $120,000 was awarded to each of three of the teens as settlement of a lawsuit that alleged that they had been unlawfully detained and that police officers had used racial epithets.<ref>Tat, Linh. [http://www.northjersey.com/fortlee/3_boys_locked_in_Fort_Lee_police_van_overnight_will_split_360000.html "3 boys locked in Fort Lee police van overnight will split $360,000"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', December 17, 2013. Accessed January 8, 2014. "Three boys who were locked in a Fort Lee police van overnight in freezing temperatures will receive $120,000 each under a settlement reached with the borough, attorneys for the plaintiffs said."</ref>
* On March 2, 2012, The show ''[[Morning Joe]]'' on [[MSNBC]] aired live from [[Fort Lee High School]]. [[Joe Scarborough]] and [[Mika Brzezinski]] joined Gov. [[Chris Christie]], Rev. [[Al Sharpton]], [[Michelle Rhee]], [[Harold Ford Jr.]], [[Howard Dean]], interim superintendent of Fort Lee Schools (Steven Engravalle) and other invited guests to discuss New Jersey's education reform.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120308090929/http://mojoe.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/02/10563846-a-few-scenes-from-todays-education-town-hall-in-fort-lee-new-jersey "Broadcasting live from Fort Lee High School"], [[MSNBC]], March 2, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2012.</ref>