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64-584: Originally developed by NYSW, it was later acquired by CSX. Located in Ridgefield, New Jersey and extending into Ridgefield Park , it takes its name from the ferry that used to travel across the Hackensack at approximately this location—the town on the western side, Little Ferry , was also named for this ferry. The yard's street address is in Babbitt, North Bergen , from where it is accessible by road. It

128-591: A National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service. On May 12, 2012, a 10,000 ton rockfall just south of the state line left a 520-foot (160 m) scar on the cliffs. The Palisades is now a part of Palisades Interstate Park , a popular destination for hiking and other outdoor recreational activities, that also includes Harriman - Bear Mountain State Park , Minnewaska State Park Preserve and several other parks and historic sites in

192-724: A National Natural Landmark . The Palisades are among the most dramatic geologic features in the vicinity of New York City , forming a canyon of the Hudson north of the George Washington Bridge , as well as providing a vista of the Manhattan skyline . They sit in the Newark Basin , a rift basin located mostly in New Jersey. Palisade is derived from the same root as the word pole , ultimately from

256-557: A serial which helped popularize the term cliffhanger . In October 1931, after four years of construction, the George Washington Bridge opened between Upper Manhattan and Fort Lee. On April 28, 1940, the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York announced the donation of 723 acres by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to establish a weekend camp for New York City Boy Scouts. In June 1983, the Palisades were designated

320-771: A 38-vote margin. He was acquitted on all charges in October 2010. Ridgefield is located in the 9th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 36th state legislative district. For the 118th United States Congress , New Jersey's 9th congressional district was represented by Bill Pascrell ( D , Paterson ) until his death in August 2024. New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker ( Newark , term ends 2027) and George Helmy ( Mountain Lakes , term ends 2024). For

384-579: A forest preserve. Fearing that they would soon be put out of business, quarry operators responded by working faster: in March 1898 alone, more than three tons of dynamite was used to bring down Washington Head and Indian Head in Fort Lee, New Jersey , producing several million cubic yards of traprock. The following year, work by the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs led to the creation of

448-451: A household in the borough was $ 54,081, and the median income for a family was $ 66,330. Males had a median income of $ 47,975 versus $ 36,676 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 25,558. About 4.7% of families and 6.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 6.4% of those under age 18 and 6.7% of those age 65 or over. Ridgefield is governed under the borough form of New Jersey municipal government, which

512-598: A matching $ 2.5 million and the state of New Jersey appropriated $ 500,000 to build the Henry Hudson Drive (which would be succeeded by the Palisades Parkway in 1947). Ultimately, the Sing Sing relocation was discontinued. In the 1910s, when Fort Lee was a center of film production, the cliffs were frequently used as film locations. The most notable of these films was The Perils of Pauline ,

576-604: A natural gas pipeline as of 2021. and the electric cable for the Hudson Project . To the north, the lines cross north over Overpeck Creek. CSX has a two-track swing bridge . As of 2015, the NYS&;W bridge was slated for replacement. The River Subdvison continues along the original West Shore Railroad alignment through Bergen County and Rockland County, New York reaching the Hudson River after passing through

640-446: A pebbly shore, just rude enough to break the gentle waves, and make a music which mimics softly the loud chorus of the ocean. Through this beautiful little wood, a broad well gravelled terrace is led by every point which can exhibit the scenery to advantage; narrower and wilder paths diverge at intervals, some into the deeper shadow of the wood, and some shelving gradually to the pretty coves below. The price of entrance to this little Eden,

704-940: A staggered basis, with either two or three seats coming up for election each November; a Chairman and Vice Chairman are selected from among its seven members at a reorganization meeting held every January. As of 2024 , the county executive is James J. Tedesco III ( D , Paramus ), whose four-year term of office ends December 31, 2026. Bergen County's Commissioners are: Thomas J. Sullivan Jr. (D, Montvale , 2025), Chair Germaine M. Ortiz (D, Emerson , 2025), Joan Voss (D, Fort Lee , 2026), Vice Chair Mary J. Amoroso (D, Mahwah , 2025), Rafael Marte (D, Bergenfield , 2026), Steven A. Tanelli (D, North Arlington , 2024) and Tracy Silna Zur (D, Franklin Lakes , 2024). Bergen County's constitutional officials are: Clerk John S. Hogan (D, Northvale , 2026), Sheriff Anthony Cureton (D, Englewood , 2024) and Surrogate Michael R. Dressler (D, Cresskill , 2026). As of March 2011, there were

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768-407: A staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The borough form of government used by Ridgefield is a " weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two-thirds majority vote of

832-675: A station at the Vince Lombardi Park & Ride of the New Jersey Turnpike which is adjacent to the Edgewater Branch . 40°50′22″N 74°01′28″W  /  40.8394444°N 74.0244444°W  / 40.8394444; -74.0244444  ( Little Ferry Yard ) Ridgefield, New Jersey Ridgefield is a borough in Bergen County , in the U.S. state of New Jersey . As of

896-594: A total of 5,467 registered voters in Ridgefield, of which 1,810 (33.1% vs. 31.7% countywide) were registered as Democrats , 1,098 (20.1% vs. 21.1%) were registered as Republicans and 2,558 (46.8% vs. 47.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated . There was one voter registered to another party. Among the borough's 2010 Census population, 49.6% (vs. 57.1% in Bergen County) were registered to vote, including 63.2% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide). In

960-673: A tunnel at Haverstraw . It continues north to a point near Selkirk Yard where it junctions with the Port Subdivision and Castleton Subdivision . At Bogota the NYSW veers west crossing the Hackensack, and at Paterson , the Passaic River to Sparta , crossing the state line into New York at Warwick . Numerous studies to restore passenger service that would travel through the yard on have been conducted, but not materialized. The Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project proposes

1024-695: A turnout of 72.9% (vs. 76.9% in the whole county). In the 2013 gubernatorial election , Republican Chris Christie received 56.8% of the vote (1,410 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 41.9% (1,040 votes), and other candidates with 1.3% (33 votes), among the 2,625 ballots cast by the borough's 5,586 registered voters (142 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 47.0%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election , Democrat Jon Corzine received 1,390 ballots cast (48.0% vs. 48.0% countywide), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 1,281 votes (44.2% vs. 45.8%), Independent Chris Daggett with 135 votes (4.7% vs. 4.7%) and other candidates with 18 votes (0.6% vs. 0.5%), among

1088-409: Is informally divided into three sections based on the geographical contour of the land. The first section is known as Ridgefield, and lies partly in the valley on both the east and west sides and partly on the first hill. The second section is known as Morsemere , and is located in the northern part of the borough. The third section is Ridgefield Heights, on the second hill at the extreme eastern part of

1152-668: Is located between Interchanges 18E/18W and the George Washington Bridge at mileposts 116E on the Eastern Spur and 115.5W on the Western Spur. U.S. Route 1/9 , U.S. Route 46 , Route 63 , Route 93 and Route 5 also pass through Ridgefield. NJ Transit provides bus service to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 127 , 154 , 165 , 166 , 168 and

1216-902: Is situated at the confluence of the Hackensack River and Overpeck Creek near the Bergen Generating Station . South of the facility the River Subdivision continues to the North Bergen Yard , where it terminates. Traveling slightly further the NYSW mainline terminates at the Landbridge Terminal at the Jersey City border. The NYSW Undercliff Junction provides access to a spur to the Edgewater Tunnel , occupied by

1280-515: Is the six cents you pay at the ferry. After the Civil War, signs advertising patent medicines and other products covered the rock face in letters 20 feet (6.1 m) high. In the 19th century, the cliffs were heavily quarried for railroad ballast , leading to local efforts to preserve them. Beginning in the 1890s, several unsuccessful efforts were made to turn much of the Highlands into

1344-487: Is used in 218 municipalities (of the 564) statewide, making it the most common form of government in New Jersey. The governing body is comprised of a mayor and a borough council, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. A mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The borough council includes six members elected to serve three-year terms on

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1408-502: The "Others" group of artists . The colony consisted of a number of clapboard shacks on a bluff. To this day the names of the streets in this part of the town—Sketch Place, Studio Road and Art Lane—pay homage to Grantwood's history. Kreymborg moved to Ridgefield and launched Others: A Magazine of the New Verse with Skipwith Cannell , Wallace Stevens , and William Carlos Williams in 1915. The initial 118 miles (190 km) of

1472-547: The 2000 United States census there were 10,830 people, 4,020 households, and 2,966 families residing in the borough. The population density was 4,149.8 inhabitants per square mile (1,602.2/km ). There were 4,120 housing units at an average density of 1,578.7 per square mile (609.5/km ). The racial makeup of the borough was 75.87% White , 0.77% African American , 0.08% Native American , 17.42% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 3.50% from other races , and 2.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.80% of

1536-602: The 2012 presidential election , Democrat Barack Obama received 2,320 votes here (58.3% vs. 54.8% countywide), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 1,570 votes (39.4% vs. 43.5%) and other candidates with 42 votes (1.1% vs. 0.9%), among the 3,980 ballots cast by the borough's 5,848 registered voters, for a turnout of 68.1% (vs. 70.4% in Bergen County). In the 2008 presidential election , Democrat Barack Obama received 2,319 votes here (53.0% vs. 53.9% countywide), ahead of Republican John McCain with 1,960 votes (44.8% vs. 44.5%) and other candidates with 40 votes (0.9% vs. 0.8%), among

1600-482: The 2020 United States census , the borough's population was 11,501, an increase of 469 (+4.3%) from the 2010 census count of 11,032, which in turn reflected an increase of 202 (+1.9%) from the 10,830 counted in the 2000 census . Ridgefield was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 26, 1892, from portions of Ridgefield Township . The borough was named for

1664-641: The 2024-2025 session , the 36th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Paul Sarlo ( D , Wood-Ridge ) and in the General Assembly by Clinton Calabrese (D, Cliffside Park ) and Gary Schaer (D, Passaic ). Bergen County is governed by a directly elected County Executive , with legislative functions performed by a Board of County Commissioners composed of seven members who are elected at-large to three-year terms in partisan elections on

1728-726: The 321 (an 18-minute ride from the Vince Lombardi Park & Ride) routes and to Jersey City on the 83 route. Original plans for the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail included a northern terminus at Vince Lombardi Park & Ride . Plans for an extension through the town called the Northern Branch Corridor Project call for a station in the borough along the Northern Branch right-of-way at Hendricks Parkway. The station at

1792-577: The English Neighborhood , despite the fact most of the settlers were of Dutch and Huguenot origin. The opening of the West Shore Railroad and Erie Railroad's Northern Branch in the mid 19th century brought suburbanization to the region, and in Ridgefield, significant industry and manufacturing. Grantwood was an artist's colony established in 1913 by Man Ray , Alfred Kreymborg and Samuel Halpert and became known as

1856-563: The Hackensack River , avoiding capture in what is remembered as Washington's Retreat. The Palisades were the site of 18 documented duels and probably many unrecorded ones in the years 1798–1845. The most famous is the Burr–Hamilton duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr , which took place in a spot known as the Heights of Weehawken on July 11, 1804. An English visitor, Fanny Trollope , in her 1832 book Domestic Manners of

1920-513: The New Jersey Turnpike were completed in 1952, with the original northern terminus at an interchange connecting to Route 46 in Ridgefield. An additional four-mile stretch of road connecting the Turnpike from Ridgefield to Interstate 80 in Teaneck and from there to the George Washington Bridge was completed in 1964. The western spur was added in the 1970s, with its two spurs re-connecting in

1984-608: The Palisades Interstate Park Commission , headed by George W. Perkins , which was authorized to acquire land between Fort Lee and Piermont, New York . Its jurisdiction was extended to Stony Point, New York in 1906. In 1908, the State of New York announced plans to move Sing Sing Prison to Bear Mountain . Work was begun in the area near Highland Lake (renamed Hessian Lake) and in January 1909,

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2048-469: The Pavonia Massacre , the nascent colony was later abandoned. In 1655, Oratam , sachem of the Hackensack, deeded a large tract nearby to Sara Kiersted, who had learned the native language and was instrumental in negotiations between Native Americans and the settlers. In 1668, much of the land between Overpeck Creek and the Hudson River was purchased by Samuel Edsall, and soon became known as

2112-511: The United States . The cliffs stretch north from Jersey City about 20 miles (32 km) to near Nyack, New York , and are visible at Haverstraw, New York . They rise nearly vertically from near the edge of the river, and are about 300 feet (90 m) high at Weehawken , increasing gradually to 540 feet (160 m) high near their northern terminus. North of Fort Lee , the Palisades are part of Palisades Interstate Park and are

2176-655: The United States Census Bureau , the borough had a total area of 2.87 square miles (7.43 km ), including 2.54 square miles (6.59 km ) of land and 0.33 square miles (0.85 km ) of water (11.39%). The borough shares borders with Carlstadt , Cliffside Park , Fairview , Fort Lee , Little Ferry , Palisades Park , Ridgefield Park and South Hackensack in Bergen County; and North Bergen in Hudson County . The borough

2240-467: The ridgefield that is part of Hackensack River flood plain. In 1642, Myndert Myndertsen received a patroonship as part of the New Netherland colony for much the land in the Hackensack and Passaic valleys. He called his settlement Achter Kol , or rear mountain pass , which refers to its accessibility to the interior behind the Palisades. Originally spared in the conflicts that begin with

2304-440: The 2,898 ballots cast by the borough's 5,658 registered voters, yielding a 51.2% turnout (vs. 50.0% in the county). The Ridgefield School District serves public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade . As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 1,391 students and 160.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.7:1. Schools in

2368-433: The 4,372 ballots cast by the borough's 5,853 registered voters, for a turnout of 74.7% (vs. 76.8% in Bergen County). In the 2004 presidential election , Democrat John Kerry received 2,172 votes here (51.0% vs. 51.7% countywide), ahead of Republican George W. Bush with 2,038 votes (47.8% vs. 47.2%) and other candidates with 23 votes (0.5% vs. 0.7%), among the 4,262 ballots cast by the borough's 5,845 registered voters, for

2432-479: The Americans , wrote of a park established at the Palisades by a Hoboken ferryboat entrepreneur at that time: It is hardly possible to imagine one of greater attraction; a broad belt of light underwood and flowering shrubs, studded at intervals with lofty forest trees, runs for two miles along a cliff which overhangs the matchless Hudson; sometimes it feathers the rocks down to its very margin, and at others leaves

2496-493: The Latin word palus , meaning stake. A "palisade" is, in general, a defensive fence or wall made up of wooden stakes or tree trunks. The Lenape called the cliffs "rocks that look like rows of trees", a phrase that became " Weehawken ", the name of a town in New Jersey that sits at the top of the cliffs across from Midtown Manhattan . The basalt cliffs are the margin of a diabase sill , formed about 200 million years ago, at

2560-455: The November 2023 general election, when voters will select a candidate to serve the balance of the term of office. In June 2018, the borough council selected Lauren Larkin from a list of three candidates to fill the seat expiring in December 2020 that became vacant following the resignation of Javier Acosta. Larkin served on an interim basis until the November 2018 general election, when she

2624-597: The area's terrain. At the time of European colonization, the area was home to the Hackensack tribe of the Lenape Native Americans , who maintained a large settlement to the north on Overpeck Creek . Their name is an exonym taken from the territory and is translated as place of stony ground which describes the diminishing Hudson Palisades as they descend into the Meadowlands becoming

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2688-608: The borough had a total of 31.00 miles (49.89 km) of roadways, of which 21.10 miles (33.96 km) were maintained by the municipality, 3.45 miles (5.55 km) by Bergen County and 3.52 miles (5.66 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 2.93 miles (4.72 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority . The New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 95 ) passes through Ridgefield. The Turnpike's Vince Lombardi service area

2752-434: The borough, running north and south. Undercliff Junction is an unincorporated community located within Ridgefield. . Morsemere, which includes the southernmost part of Palisade Park, was named by a real estate development company in honor of Samuel F. B. Morse , inventor of the telegraph and Morse code . During the middle of the 19th century, Morse owned vast tracts of land in the borough. Ridgefield's telephone exchange

2816-498: The close of the Triassic period by the intrusion of molten magma upward into sandstone . The molten material cooled and solidified before reaching the surface. Water erosion of the softer sandstone left behind the columnar structure of harder rock that exists today. The cliffs are about 300 ft (100 m) thick in sections and originally may have reached 1,000 ft (300 m). The end-Triassic extinction event that coincided with

2880-753: The council. The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members, and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council. As of 2023 , the mayor of Ridgefield Borough is Democrat Hugo Jimenez, who was appointed to serve an unexpired term of office ending on December 31, 2023. Members of the Ridgefield Borough Council are Council President Russell A. Castelli (D, 2023), Craig Dorsett (D, 2024), Hugo Jimenez (D, 2025), James V. Kontolios (D, 2025), Lauren Larkin (D, 2023) and Yongki Colin Ryu (D, 2024; appointed to serve an unexpired term). Hugo Jimenez

2944-495: The district (with 2021–22 enrollment from the National Center for Education Statistics ) are: Shaler Academy with 160 students in grades PreK/K, Bergen Boulevard School with 192 students in grades 1-2, Slocum-Skewes School with 687 students in grades 3-8 and Ridgefield Memorial High School with 489 students in grades 9-12. Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are eligible to attend

3008-575: The first European map of the New World, made by Gerardus Mercator in 1541 based on the description given him by Giovanni da Verrazzano , who suggested they look like a "fence of stakes". During the early stages of the American Revolution, British military commander Lord Cornwallis landed a force of between 2,500 and 5,000 at Huyler's Landing on November 20, 1776. In an effort to ambush American general George Washington and crush

3072-517: The formation of the Hudson Palisades, Central Atlantic magmatic province , 200 million years ago ranks second in severity of the five major extinction episodes that span geologic time. Franklyn Van Houten completed groundbreaking research on a rock formation known as the Newark Basin . His discovery of a consistent geological pattern in which lake levels rose and fell is now known as the "Van Houten cycle". The Palisades appear on

3136-742: The park and ride is being studied as part of the Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project . People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Ridgefield include: Hudson Palisades The Palisades , also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson River Palisades , are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in Northeastern New Jersey and Southeastern New York in

3200-628: The population. As of the 2000 Census, 16.31% of Ridgefield's residents identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, which was the sixth highest in the United States and fourth highest of any municipality in New Jersey—behind Palisades Park (36.38%), Leonia (17.24%) and Fort Lee (17.18%)—for all places with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry. In the same census, 3.0% of Ridgefield's residents identified themselves as being of Croatian ancestry. This

3264-418: The population. Korean Americans accounted for 25.7% of the population. Of the 3,905 households, 33.7% had children under the age of 18; 58.9% were married couples living together; 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present and 23.3% were non-families. Of all households, 19.9% were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

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3328-633: The rebellion in the wake of the rebels' defeat in the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Fort Washington , Cornwallis marched his men up the steep Palisades and southward through the Northern Valley. Washington, stationed near Fort Lee, was alerted to the ambush effort by an unknown horseback patriot, remembered only as the Closter Rider, and successfully fled west through Englewood and over

3392-681: 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. As of May 2010 ,

3456-416: The seventh-highest of any municipality in the United States and fifth-highest in the state. There were 4,020 households, out of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.7% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.2% were non-families. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who

3520-432: The state another 10,000 acres (40 km ) and one million dollars toward the creation of a state park. George Walbridge Perkins , who served as president of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission from its creation in 1900 until his death in 1920, with whom she had been working, raised another $ 1.5 million from a dozen wealthy contributors including John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan . New York State appropriated

3584-415: The state purchased the 740-acre (3.0 km ) Bear Mountain tract. Conservationists, inspired by the work of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission , lobbied successfully for the creation of the Highlands of the Hudson Forest Preserve. However, the prison project was continued. Mary Williamson Averell , whose husband, Union Pacific Railroad president E. H. Harriman died in September of that year, offered

3648-437: The western side of the borough. In the 1970s, the area came under the auspices of the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission , meant to set parameters and balance development in the ecologically sensitive region. Some parts of the low-lying areas, including Skeetkill Creek Marsh, have been set apart as nature reserves and extension of system that connects to the Overpeck Reserve and Overpeck County Park . According to

3712-424: Was $ 59,784 (with a margin of error of +/− $ 12,149) and the median family income was $ 76,618 (+/− $ 5,428). Males had a median income of $ 51,682 (+/− $ 4,297) versus $ 39,178 (+/− $ 5,838) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 28,107 (+/− $ 2,625). About 3.7% of families and 5.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 4.2% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over. As of

3776-582: Was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.25. Same-sex couples headed 31 households in 2010, an increase from the 24 counted in 2000. 21.6% of the population were under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 30.3% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41.5 years. For every 100 females, the population had 92.0 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 89.5 males. The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income

3840-456: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.19. In the borough, the population was spread out, with 21.8% under the age of 18, 6.3% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.8 males. The median income for

3904-668: Was Morsemere 6 until dial service arrived in the mid-1950s. Grantwood straddles Cliffside Park. The 2010 United States census counted 11,032 people, 3,905 households, and 2,995 families in the borough. The population density was 4,323.7 per square mile (1,669.4/km ). There were 4,145 housing units at an average density of 1,624.5 per square mile (627.2/km ). The racial makeup was 62.31% (6,874) White , 1.20% (132) Black or African American , 0.18% (20) Native American , 29.06% (3,206) Asian , 0.02% (2) Pacific Islander , 4.66% (514) from other races , and 2.57% (284) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21.41% (2,362) of

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3968-474: Was appointed as mayor to fill the unexpired seat of Anthony R. Suarez expiring in December 2023 that became vacant when he took a seat as a judge. Joanna Leigh Congalton-Hali was appointed to fill the council seat Jimenez had held expiring in December 2025. In January 2023, the borough council selected Yongki Colin Ryu to fill the seat expiring in December 2024 that had been held by Ray Penabad until he resigned from office; Ryu will serve on an interim basis until

4032-446: Was elected to serve the balance of the term of office. In July 2009, Mayor Suarez was one of 44 people arrested across the state as part of Operation Bid Rig , a joint investigation into political corruption and money laundering . Suarez was charged with accepting a $ 10,000 cash bribe for assistance in arranging approvals to develop properties in Ridgefield. In a special election in August 2010, an effort to recall Suarez failed by

4096-479: Was the third highest percentage of people with Croatian ancestry in any place in New Jersey with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry. 2.4% of Ridgefield's residents identified themselves as being of Armenian ancestry, the 16th highest percentage of Armenian people in any place in the United States with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry. As of the 2000 Census, 1.3% of residents identified themselves as being of Turkish American ancestry,

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