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Portions of the town are part of an Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ), one of 32 zones covering 37 municipalities statewide. Kearny was selected in 1983 as one of the initial group of 10 zones chosen to participate in the program. In addition to other benefits to encourage employment and investment within the Zone, shoppers can take advantage of a reduced 3.3125% ]sales tax
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rate (half of the % rate charged statewide) at eligible merchants. Established in November 1992, the town's Urban Enterprise Zone status expires in November 2023. Since its inception, there has been $27 million in tax revenue that has been invested based on revenue from the Urban Enterprise Zone.
Arts and culture
The Kearny Public Library is one of New Jersey's remaining Carnegie libraries, and houses a museum on its third floor which mounts exhibitions related to the history and culture of the town and has a collection of artifacts related to the town's namesake.[Krasner, Barbara]
''Kearny's Immigrant Heritage''
Arcadia Publishing
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, 2003. . Accessed September 1, 2014.
In 2023, the town acquired a former church for $1.5 million, which it intends to convert to a cultural center.
Government
Local government
Kearny is governed under the Town
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form of New Jersey municipal government. It is one of nine municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government. The governing body is comprised of the Mayor and Town Council, who are elected on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. The Mayor is elected directly by the voters at-large
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to a four-year term of office. The Town Council, comprised of eight members, is elected by the voters to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with one of the two seats from each of the four wards coming up for election in two consecutive years followed by two years with no elections.[''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', ]Rutgers University
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Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 142. The Mayor and Council operate on a legislative basis, with the Mayor having veto power. The day-to-day operations are the responsibility of the Town Administrator whose duties are specified by local ordinance, and who generally carries out the policies adopted by the Mayor and Council.
The mayor of Kearny is Independent
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Carol Jean Doyle, who was elected to serve an unexpired term of office ending December 31, 2025.[Mayor's Office]
Town of Kearny. Accessed February 7, 2024. "Mayor Carol Jean Doyle made history and was elected as Mayor of the Town of Kearny on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Mayor Carol Jean Doyle is the first woman mayor since 1938 and the first woman ever elected by the voters of Kearny." Members of the Town Council are Members of the Town Council are Renato da Silva (D, 2025; 3rd Ward, elected to serve an unexpired term), Marytrine De Castro (D, 2025; 1st Ward), Eileen Eckel (D, 2026; 3rd Ward), Gerald J. Ficeto (D, 2025; 4th Ward), Richard P. Konopka (D, 2025; 2nd Ward), Dennis Solano (D, 2026; 2nd Ward, elected to serve an unexpired term), Stathis Theodoropoulos (D, 2026; 4th Ward) and George Zapata (D, 2026; 1st Ward).[Elected Officials]
Hudson County, New Jersey
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Clerk. Accessed April 18, 2022.[General Election November 7, 2023 Official Results]
Hudson County, New Jersey
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, December 1, 2023. Accessed January 1, 2024.[General Election November 8, 2022 Official Results]
Hudson County, New Jersey
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, November 21, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023.[General Election November 2, 2021 Official results]
Hudson County, New Jersey
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, updated November 17, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2022.
During the July 11, 2023, council meeting, Peter Santana (Councilman for the 2nd Ward) was appointed Mayor until a special election was held in November 2023. Al Santos, who had been mayor since January 1, 2000, resigned his role on this same date when the New Jersey Senate's Judiciary Committee confirmed his appointment as a Hudson County Superior Court Judge. In the November 2023 general election, Independent candidate Carol Jean Doyle became the first woman to serve the town as mayor after she defeated Democrat Peter Santana and Republican Sydney Ferreira. In December 2023, Renato da Silva was appointed to fill the 3rd Ward seat expiring in 2025 that became vacant when Doyle took office as mayor.
In February 2019, the Town Council appointed Gerald Ficeto to fill the 2nd Ward seat expiring in December 2021 that had been held by Michael D. Landy until he resigned from office in December 2018. in November 2019, Ficeto was elected to serve the balance of the term of office.[Hudson County General Election 2019 Statement of Vote November 5, 2019]
Hudson County, New Jersey
Hudson County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, its smallest and most densely populated. Lying in the northeast of the state and on the west bank of the Hudson River, the North Jersey county is part of the state's Gateway Region an ...
Clerk, updated November 13, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2020.
On January 7, 2017, 2nd Ward Councilman Jonathan Giordano died, creating a vacancy on the Town Council. In February 2017, Peter Santana was selected unanimously to fill Giordano's seat that expires in December 2018; Santana served on an interim basis until the November 2017 general election, when voters elected him to serve the balance of the term of office.[Hudson County General Election 2017 Statement of Vote November 7, 2017]
Hudson County, New Jersey
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Clerk, updated November 17, 2017. Accessed January 1, 2018.
In February 2015, the Town Council selected Marytrine De Castro, as chosen by the Democratic municipal committee, to fill the vacant First Ward seat expiring in December 2017 that had been held by Alexa Arce until she resigned the previous month. In the November general election, De Castro was elected to serve the balance of the term.[2015 General Election Results]
Hudson County, New Jersey
Hudson County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, its smallest and most densely populated. Lying in the northeast of the state and on the west bank of the Hudson River, the North Jersey county is part of the state's Gateway Region an ...
Clerk, updated November 10, 2015. Accessed November 14, 2019.
Fire department
The town is protected by the Kearny Fire Department, which operates out of four fire stations.[Stations]
. Kearny Fire Department. Accessed March 8, 2012. The current Chief of Department is Steve Dyl. Below is a list of fire station locations and apparatus of the Kearny Fire Department.
Federal, state, and county representation
Kearny is split between the 8th and 9th Congressional Districts[2022 Redistricting Plan]
New Jersey Redistricting Commission
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, December 8, 2022. and is part of New Jersey's 31st state legislative district.
Prior to the 2010 Census, Kearny had been part of the 9th Congressional District and the , a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission
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that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.[''2011 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government'']
, p. 59, New Jersey League of Women Voters
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. Accessed May 22, 2015. In the redistricting that took effect in 2013, 22,572 (about 55%) Kearny residents were placed in the 8th District, with the remaining 18,112 (about 45%) located in the extreme northwest corner of the town placed in the 9th District.[Plan Components Report]
New Jersey Redistricting Commission
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, December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020.
Politics
As of March 2011, there were a total of 16,348 registered voters in Kearny, of which 7,030 (43.0%) were registered as Democrats, 1,922 (11.8%) were registered as Republicans and 7,390 (45.2%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 6 voters registered to other parties.
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama
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received 68.9% of the vote (7,579 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney
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with 29.9% (3,293 votes), and other candidates with 1.2% (129 votes), among the 11,076 ballots cast by the town's 17,601 registered voters (75 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 62.9%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 60.4% of the vote (6,953 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain
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with 37.9% (4,365 votes) and other candidates with 1.1% (121 votes), among the 11,508 ballots cast by the town's 18,057 registered voters, for a turnout of 63.7%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry
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received 57.0% of the vote (6,363 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush
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with 41.7% (4,650 votes) and other candidates with 0.5% (87 votes), among the 11,154 ballots cast by the town's 16,633 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 67.1.
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Democrat Barbara Buono received 49.5% of the vote (2,667 cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie
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with 48.8% (2,634 votes), and other candidates with 1.7% (92 votes), among the 5,597 ballots cast by the town's 18,001 registered voters (204 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 31.1%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine
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received 52.9% of the vote (3,838 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 38.5% (2,790 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 5.4% (390 votes) and other candidates with 1.1% (80 votes), among the 7,249 ballots cast by the town's 16,417 registered voters, yielding a 44.2% turnout.
Education
Public schools
The Kearny School District serves public school students in pre-kindergarten
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through twelfth grade
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. As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of seven schools, had an enrollment of 5,142 students and 455.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio
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of 11.3:1.[District information for Kearny]
National Center for Education Statistics
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. Accessed December 1, 2022. Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics
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) are
Franklin Elementary School with 842 students in grades PreK-6,
Garfield Elementary School with 439 students in grades PreK-6,
Roosevelt Elementary School with 385 students in grades PreK-6,
Schuyler Elementary School with 410 students in grades PreK-6,
Washington Elementary School with 474 students in grades PreK-6,
Lincoln Middle School with 752 students in grades 7-8 and
Kearny High School with 1,742 students in grades 9-12.
Charter schools
Kearny also includes Hudson Arts and Science Charter School, a charter school that operates as part of iLearn Schools, based in Elmwood Park. HASCS has two campuses, an elementary and middle school. The elementary school is located at 131 Midland Avenue (formerly Mater Dei Academy) and the middle school is located at 114 Chestnut Street (formerly Mount Carmel Guild High School). HASCS Elementary serves grades K-3 and HASCS Middle serves grades 4-8. The two schools have a combined total of 815 students.
Private schools
Schools in Kearny include:
* Kearny Christian Academy, a Christian school
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founded in 1981 by the City of Hope International Church that serves students in kindergarten
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through twelfth grade
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.
* Mt. Carmel Guild School (now the site of Hudson Arts and Science Charter School - Middle)
* The Little Neighborhood Learning Center
* Happy Time Preschool & Day Care
In the face of declining enrollment, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark closed Mater Dei Academy at the conclusion of the 2011–2012 school year. Mater Dei had been opened three years earlier as the merger of two existing schools, St. Stephen's and Holy Cross (the latter in Harrison), but attendance declined from 250 in its first year to 170 in its final year. Other former Catholic schools in Kearny include: Sacred Heart School and St. Cecilia School.
Transportation
Roads and highways
, the town had a total of of roadways, of which were maintained by the municipality, by Hudson County, by the New Jersey Department of Transportation
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and by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority
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.
Several roadways pass through and intersect in the town. The Belleville Turnpike ( Route 7) forms the northern border of the town with North Arlington and crosses the Rutgers Street Bridge over the Passaic River
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into Belleville. Kearny Avenue passes through the town and continues north as Ridge Road, the beginning of Route 17. U.S. Route 1/9 ( Pulaski Skyway) and US 1/9 Truck pass through. The Essex Freeway (Interstate 280) passes through the town and ends at Interstate 95
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(the New Jersey Turnpike
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eastern and western spurs) at the tollgate for Exit 15W.
Public transportation
NJ Transit offers bus service to the Port Authority Bus Terminal
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in Midtown Manhattan
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and to other New Jersey communities. Bus service to Newark is available on the 1, 30, 40, and 76 routes.
Kearny was formerly served by trains of both the Erie Railroad's Newark Branch (later Erie-Lackawanna and then Conrail's Newark Industrial Branch) and its Greenwood Lake Division (later the Erie-Lackawanna's Greenwood Lake-Boonton Line; and Conrail and New Jersey Transit's Boonton Line) which stopped at the now-abandoned Arlington station. Newark Branch passenger service was terminated in October 1966. But freight service continued until 2005, when the last remaining shipper, Spar-Tech PolyCom, shut down. However, freight service on the Newark side is still active. New Jersey Transit discontinued Boonton Line service in 2002 when the Montclair Connection was opened. Through the early 1970s trains also stopped at a second station along this route known as West Arlington. This station was just to the east of the now abandoned WR Draw
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movable bridge. Prior to April 30, 1967, a station in South Kearny, was served by the Central Railroad of New Jersey
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's Newark and New York Branch via the PD Draw over the Passaic River. This station was popular with employees of the giant Western Electric
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plant, and other industries in the area. In the final years of this service a pair of rush hour trains ran in each direction between South Kearny, and the CNJ's Broad Street Station in downtown Newark, as well as a single rush hour round trip between South Kearny, and Plainfield. This train operated via Elizabethport, and the CNJ main line. Kearny is also the location of the Meadows Maintenance Complex, the primary maintenance facility for NJ Transit rail operations.
The closest airport with scheduled passenger service is Newark Liberty International Airport
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, located away in Newark and Elizabeth.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Kearny include:
* Tomasz Adamek (born 1976), Polish professional heavyweight boxer who is the former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion and the former IBF & IBO & The Ring Cruiserweight Champion
* Karen Akunowicz (born 1978), award-winning chef, ''Top Chef
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'' contestant
* Marcello Borges (born 1997), soccer player
* Rachel Breton (born 1990), soccer
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striker and defender who played for Sky Blue FC
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and New Jersey Wildcats
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* Davey Brown (1898–1970), soccer player and National Soccer Hall of Fame
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inductee
* Marques Brownlee
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(born 1993), YouTube
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personality who reviews technology
* John F. Cali (1928–1992), politician who served three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly
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, representing the 30th Legislative District from 1974 to 1980
* Guy W. Calissi (–1980), New Jersey Superior Court
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judge who lived in an orphanage here
* Gary Michael Cappetta (born 1952), professional wrestling
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ring announcer, author, voice over artist, screenwriter and stage performer
* Ownie Carroll (1902–1975), Major League Baseball
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pitcher who played nine seasons in the major, from 1925 to 1934
* Jennifer Dore (born 1971), rower who competed in women's quadruple sculls at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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* George Dunlap (1908–2003), golf
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er best known for winning the United States Amateur Championship in 1933
* James Ford (born 1889), soccer
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outside right who earned one cap
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with the U.S. national team in 1916[Farnsworth, Ed]
"Behind the footage: The opening game of the USMNT's 1916 Scandinavian tour"
Society for American Soccer History, September 4, 2020. Accessed November 30, 2022. "Then, Kearny, New Jersey's James Ford (Jersey AC), playing at outside right, 'by brilliant individual work, took the ball up in the right way' before centering to center forward and fellow Kearny native John Heminsley (Newark Scottish Americans)."
* Santiago Formoso (born 1953), soccer
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defender who played five seasons in the North American Soccer League
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1984. It is considered the first soccer league to be successful on a national scale in the ...
* James Gallagher (1909–1992), soccer
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player who earned two caps
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with the United States national soccer team
* Franco Gamero (born 1990), international footballer
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who has played for the Puerto Rico national football team
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* Ted Gillen (born 1968), former professional soccer player
* Albert Gonzalez (born 1981), government informant and computer criminal
* Ed Halicki (born 1950), former professional baseball
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pitcher with a no-hitter
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to his credit, pitched on August 24, 1975, against the New York Mets
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* John Harkes
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A member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Harkes was the first American to pla ...
(born 1967), professional soccer
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player[
* Al Hartley (1921–2003), comic book writer-artist known for his work on ]Archie Comics
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* Fred A. Hartley Jr. (1902–1969), New Jersey Congressman best known for being the House of Representatives sponsor of the Taft-Hartley Act
* Herbie Haymer (1916–1949), jazz saxophonistallmusic guide
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Allmusic. "Tony Mottola... attended high school alongside ill-fated jazz saxophonist Herbie Haymer and future bandleader George Paxton..."
* John Hemingsley, soccer
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center forward who played the first two U.S. national team games in 1916[
* ]Frank Iero
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(born 1981), rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist for My Chemical Romance
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* James F. Kelley (1902–1996), President of Seton Hall College (since renamed as Seton Hall University
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) from 1936 to 1949
* Jeffrey Klepacki (born 1968), three-time US Olympian in rowing and three-time world champion
* Buzz Kulik
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(1922–1999), film director and producer
* Joe Kyrillos (born 1960), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate
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from 1992 to 2018, where he represents the 13th Legislative District
* Joan Lippincott (born 1935), concert organist
* Monroe Jay Lustbader (1931–1996), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly
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from 1992 until his death, where he represented the 21st Legislative District
* Kevin Maguire (born 1960), comic book artist
* Meagan McClelland (born 2000), professional soccer
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goalkeeper
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for USL Super League club Carolina Ascent FC
* Paul McCurrie (1929–2020), lawyer and politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly
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* Tony Meola
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(born 1969), professional soccer player
* Dots Miller (1886–1923), Major League Baseball
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player from 1909 to 1921
* Michael Moran (born 1962), author / analyst of international affairs and digital documentarian
* Tony Mottola (1918–2004), jazz guitarist
* Jim Murphy (1947–2022), author of more than nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history
* Shamus O'Brien (1907–1981), soccer player inducted in 1990 into the National Soccer Hall of Fame
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* Brian O'Hara (born 1979), law enforcement official who is serving as the 54th Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department
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* Hugh O'Neill (born 1954), soccer player who played in the NASL, ASL, and MISL
* Greg Pason (born 1966), National Secretary of the Socialist Party USA
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* George Paxton (–1989), big band jazz leader, saxophonist, composer and producer
* Matt Pelissier (born 1979), drummer for My Chemical Romance
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* Bill Raftery (born 1943), college basketball analyst and former college basketball player for La Salle University
* Tab Ramos
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(born 1966), retired soccer midfielder
* James H. Rupp (1918–1998), Illinois state senator, Mayor of Monmouth, Illinois, and businessman
* Harold Hill Smith (1910–1994), geneticist who first fused a human cell and a plant cell
* Bob Stanley (born 1954), professional baseball relief pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox
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* Archie Stark (1897–1985), soccer pioneer in the United States and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
* Ray Toro (born 1977), My Chemical Romance
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lead guitarist
* John Patrick Washington (1908–1943), Roman Catholic
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priest
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; one of the Four Chaplains, who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester during World War II
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* Alex Webster (1931–2012), fullback and halfback in the NFL for the New York Giants
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, who was later head coach
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of the Giants
* Dick Weisgerber (1915–1984), professional football player for the Green Bay Packers
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* Kenneth G. Wiman (1930–2021), U.S. Coast Guard Rear AdmiralRear Admiral Kenneth G. Wiman
United States Coast Guard
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. Accessed May 8, 2014.
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Scene from ''Annie'' at the Kearny Passaic River bridge
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1867 establishments in New Jersey
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Towns in New Jersey
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