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EspañolHARRISON, NEW JERSEY
:''For the township in Gloucester County, see Harrison Township, New Jersey
'Harrison' is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 14,424.
Harrison was originally incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1840, from portions of Lodi Township, shortly after Hudson County was created from portions of Bergen County, on February 22, 1840. Portions of the township were returned to Bergen County on February 19, 1852, to create Union Township. Kearny Township was created from parts of the township on April 8, 1867 Harrison was reincorporated as a town on March 25, 1869."The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 146.
Harrison is located at (40.745951, -74.155096).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²). 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (6.82%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,424 people, 5,136 households, and 3,636 families residing in the town. The population density was 4,564.9/km² (11,811.1/mi²). There were 5,254 housing units at an average density of 1,662.8/km² (4,302.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 66.10% White, 0.98% African American, 0.40% Native American, 11.89% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 15.96% from other races, and 4.65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 36.97% of the population.
As of the 2000 census, 7.22% of Harrison's residents identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry. This was the fifth highest percentage of people with Chinese ancestry in any place in New Jersey with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.[1]
There were 5,136 households out of which 33.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.8% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.2% were non-families. 22.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.27.
In the town the population was spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 36.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 104.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.2 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $41,350, and the median income for a family was $48,489. Males had a median income of $33,069 versus $26,858 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,490. About 10.1% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.5% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.
The city is presently governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government.
The Town of Harrison is divided into four electoral wards, with each ward then being divided into three districts, for a total of 12 electoral districts in Harrison. Each ward is represented by two council members, with a total of eight councilmembers on the Town Council.
The head of the government is the Mayor. The Mayor chairs the Town Council and heads the municipal government. The Mayor may both vote on legislation before the Council and veto ordinances. The Mayor's veto can be overruled by ¾ of the Town Council voting to overrule the veto.
Town Council meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 pm (except in July and August, when no meetings are held), in Council Chambers, which is located on the second floor of the Town Hall at 318 Harrison Avenue. Public Caucus Meetings are held at 6:30pm in Room 301.
The current Mayor and Councilmembers are:
Mayor Raymond J. McDonough, Councilman - 1977-1995, Mayor since January 1, 1995 (Current term in office expires December 31, 2010)
Members of the Harrison Town Council are:[2]
1st Ward:
★ Jesus Huaranga (term expires 2010)
★ Caroline Mandaglio (term expires 2007)
2nd Ward:
★ Steve McCormick (2010)
★ Victor Villalta (2007)
3rd Ward:
★ Larry Bennett (2010)
★ Michael Rodgers (2007) (not seeking re-election)
4th Ward:
★ James Doran (2010)
★ Michael Dolaghan (2007)
The 'Primary Election' was held on June 6, 2006. Candidates listed were running for the Democratic Party nomination for their respective offices. Results of the Primary Election were (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):[3]
★ Mayor:
★
★ McDonough
★ - 1,159 votes
★
★ Michael J. Hinchcliffe - 651
★ First Ward: Jesus Huaranga - 256
★ Second Ward: Pettigrew
★ - 271
★ Third Ward: Laurence Bennett - 490
★ Fourth Ward: Doran
★ - 317
The 'General Election' was held on November 7, 2006. Candidates who ran in this race were (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):
★ Mayor: Raymond J. McDonough
★ (D), Anselmo Millan (Independent Democrat).
On June 12, 2006, Hudson County Clerk Javier Inclán dropped Millan from the November ballot after he determined that the candidate and his wife, who had signed Millan's petition, had previously signed a petition supporting Michael Hinchcliffe in his unsuccessful mayoral bid in Harrison's 2006 Democratic Primary.[4] In his ruling on July 11, 2006, Judge Carmen Messano stated that "the objections raised by County Clerk Javier Inclan and Mayor Raymond McDonough were flawed and that the laws were written 'to allow the greatest scope for public participation in the electoral process, to allow candidates to get on the ballot, to allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly to allow the voters a choice on Election Day.'" Millan was included on the November General Election ballot.[5]
2006 'General Election Results':[6]
Mayor -
★ McDonough
★ (D) - 1,586 votes
★ Millan (ID) - 1,088 votes (a difference of 498 votes)
Town Council -
1st Ward -
★ Huaranga (D) - 308 votes
★ Camano (ID) - 238 votes (a difference of 70 votes)
2nd Ward -
★ Pettigrew
★ (D) - 271 votes
★ McCormick (ID) - 316 votes (a difference of 45 votes)
3rd Ward -
★ Bennett - 602 votes
4th Ward -
★ Doran
★ (D) - 425 votes
★ Wood (ID) - 214 votes (a difference of 211 votes)
The 'Primary Election' was held on June 5, 2007. Candidates listed were running for the Democratic Party nomination for their respective offices. Results of the Primary Election were (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):
1st Ward -
★ Caroline Mandaglio
★ - 130 votes
2nd Ward -
★ Victor Villata
★ - 136 votes
3rd Ward -
★ Francisco Nasciemento - 245
4th Ward -
★ Michael Dologhan
★ - 197[7]
The 'General Election' will be held on November 6, 2007. Candidates listed are running for the Town Council (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):
1st Ward -
★ Caroline Mandaglio
★ (D)
★ Maria Camano (Independent Democrat)
2nd Ward -
★ Victor Villalta
★ (D)
★ Maria McCormick (Independent Democrat)
3rd Ward -
★ Francisco Nasciemento (D)
4th Ward -
★ Michael Dolaghan
★ (D)
★ Joseph Wood (Independent Democrat)
Harrison is in the Thirteenth Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 32nd Legislative District.[8]
The Harrison Public Schools is comprised of four schools. Schools in the district (with 2003-04 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics for the three schools in the district as of this time) are Lincoln Elementary School (which houses 872 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten to 5th), Washington Middle School(which houses 362 students in grades 6th to 8th), Harrison High School (which houses 719 students in grades 9th to 12th), and the soon to be opened New Harrison High School.
The Harrison Public School District is participating in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. For the 2005-06. school year parents can request to transfer a child from the Washington School, designated by the State of New Jersey as a Category I School, to another school which is not a Category I School. Since there is only one elementary school in Harrison, parents can request a transfer to the Hoboken Public Schools under the Choice program. A transfer request will depend upon the capacity of the selected Hoboken school.[9]
In September 2007, Harrison will realign the grades being housed in each of the school buildings in town. The New Harrison High School, located on Hamilton Street between Kingsland and Schuyler Avenues, will open. As a result, the current Harrison High School, located on 1 North 5th Street, will be renamed as Washington Middle School. The current Washington Middle School, located on Hamilton Street between North 2nd and North 3rd Streets, will house the 4th and 5th grades that currently use Holy Cross School. Holy Cross School will then be vacated by the Harrison Public School district.
The Harrison station on the PATH regional rail system offers service to Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken and New York City. The Northeast Corridor, built in the 19th Century by the Pennsylvania Railroad and now owned by Amtrak, and carries New Jersey Transit trains, passes through the city on the same alignment as the PATH. There was a stop on the Northeast Corridor in Harrison, but it was eliminated due to the ease of picking up trains in Newark at Penn Station.
Harrison is served by buses operated by several bus companies. New Jersey Transit offers service within New Jersey on the 39, 40 and 43 routes.[10]
By car, Harrison depends on Interstate 280 which runs through town. Westward, I-280 leads to Route 21, the Garden State Parkway, and Interstate 80. Eastward, it leads to Route 7 and the New Jersey Turnpike.
The closest airport in New Jersey with scheduled passenger service is Newark Liberty International Airport, located 4.8 miles away in Newark / Elizabeth. New York City's LaGuardia Airport is 20.2 miles away in Flushing, Queens via the Lincoln Tunnel.
Portions of Harrison are currently undergoing transit-oriented redevelopment under a plan developed by the community planning and design firm, Heyer, Gruel & Associates LLC and adopted by the Harrison Redevelopment Agency. With the construction of new high school athletic facilities, the Harrison Board of Education sold the former John F. Kennedy Stadium to the Roseland Property Co./Millennium Homes development group, where currently new townhouses are being built. The Hampton Inn and Suites Newark/Harrison Riverwalk Hotel opened on December 31, 2004 across from Newark along the Passaic River. The area stretching from the PATH train station south to the Harrison/Newark border has been designated as a redevelopment zone (275 acres, or about 35% of the town). Plans are now underway to transform the aforementioned area of the town from deindustrialized, abandoned factories into a transit village containing high-rise office complexes and street-level retail. The current design will introduce seven- to nine-thousand new housing units. Redevelopment groups participating in these projects include the Advance Reality Group and the Pegasus Group, LLC, led by the architectural firm Torti Gallas and Partners CHK, Inc.
After a few years of delays, Red Bull and the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) announced in 2006 that Red Bull Park will be the new home of the Major League Soccer team, Red Bull New York. The new stadium is part of the large redevelopment plan for Harrison. The stadium will hold 25,000 fans and will feature a European style roof. In addition to soccer, Red Bull Park will also host games for professional men's lacrosse and international rugby teams as well as championship matches on the collegiate and secondary school levels. Furthermore, AEG Live is sponsoring 8-12 national concerts at the stadium each year. For more information, visit the Red Bull Park website.
In July 2006, property owner Steve Adler filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court alleging, among several grounds, that the Harrison Redevelopment Agency was illegally formed and its actions are void ab initio.[11] The lawsuit alleges that the composition of the Harrison Redevelopment Agency violates New Jersey Department of Community Affairs guidelines for membership of the board, the Town Ordinance promulgating the board, and the State Statute empowering the redevelopment agency. The board from its onset did not have professionals of various fields as members. Rather, it had, in violation of the town ordinance and state statute, more than two members who were political officials or employees of the Town of Harrison. If the lawsuit is successful, all designated developers could be stripped of their development designation.
★ Daisy Fuentes, model, actress and former MTV VJ.[12]
★ Fred A. Hartley, Jr., served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jersey's 10th congressional districts.[13]
★ Ray Lucas, former NFL quarterback who played for the New York Jets, among other teams.[14]
★ Edward F. McDonald (1844-1926), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1895 to 1899.[15]
★ Harrison is believed to have had the longest-serving Mayor in American history, Frank E. Rodgers, who was first elected in 1946 and served for 48 years, from 1947 to 1995, being elected to 24 two-year terms. He also served one term in the New Jersey State Senate, from 1979 to 1983.
★ Harrison has been featured in portions of the HBO hit series ''The Sopranos''. The high school was used as the location of an open casting call by HBO which brought 10,000-plus mafia hopefuls to the town, doubling the town's population and bringing traffic to a standstill.
★ Nathan Lane performed on the high school's stage before breaking into acting.
1. Chinese Communities, Epodunk. Accessed August 23, 2006.
2. Harrison Town Council, Town of Harrison. Accessed January 1, 2007.
3. McDonough wins; Nov. indie slate, ''Jersey Journal'', June 7, 2006.
4. Three candidates knocked off November ballots by county clerk, ''Jersey Journal'', June 14, 2006.
5. Millan back on Nov. ballot, ''Kearny Journal'', July 13, 2006.
6. Hudson County Election Results, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed November 11, 2006.
7. Hudson County Election Results, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed June 6, 2007.
8. 2006 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government, New Jersey League of Women Voters, p. 58. Accessed August 30, 2006.
9. Inter District Public School Choice Program, Harrison Public Schools. Accessed May 23, 2006.
10. Hudson County Bus/rail Connections, New Jersey Transit. Accessed July 3, 2007.
11. Adler far from pleased with redevelopment, ''The Observer'', October 25, 2006.
12. Durrani, Shandana . "Thriving Miss Daisy: From MTV Veejay to Model to Actress to Talk Show Host, Daisy Fuentes Is Always Seeking New Worlds to Conquer", ''Cigar Aficionado'', November / December 1997. Accessed July 3, 2007. "After five years there, the Fuentes emigrated to the United States, moving to Newark, New Jersey, and eventually settling in neighboring Harrison."
13. Fred Allen Hartley Jr. biography, United States Congress. Accessed July 3, 2007.
14. Forrester, Paul. "The Overachiever: Ray Lucas Surmounts All Obstacles as He Guides the Jets Back to Respectability", ''The Village Voice'', December 1, 1999. Accessed July 3, 2007. "It's the sort of tale that Lucas has been writing, and rewriting, since he was a teenager in Harrison, New Jersey."
15. Edward Francis McDonald biography, United States Congress. Accessed August 12, 2007.
★ Harrison website
★ Harrison Public School District
★ Redevelopment Plans - Harrison MetroCentre
★ Harrison Discussion website
★
★ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Harrison Public School District
map highlight Harrison within Hudson County
'Harrison' is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 14,424.
Harrison was originally incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1840, from portions of Lodi Township, shortly after Hudson County was created from portions of Bergen County, on February 22, 1840. Portions of the township were returned to Bergen County on February 19, 1852, to create Union Township. Kearny Township was created from parts of the township on April 8, 1867 Harrison was reincorporated as a town on March 25, 1869."The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 146.
Geography
Harrison is located at (40.745951, -74.155096).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.4 km² (1.3 mi²). 3.2 km² (1.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (6.82%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,424 people, 5,136 households, and 3,636 families residing in the town. The population density was 4,564.9/km² (11,811.1/mi²). There were 5,254 housing units at an average density of 1,662.8/km² (4,302.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 66.10% White, 0.98% African American, 0.40% Native American, 11.89% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 15.96% from other races, and 4.65% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 36.97% of the population.
As of the 2000 census, 7.22% of Harrison's residents identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry. This was the fifth highest percentage of people with Chinese ancestry in any place in New Jersey with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry.[1]
There were 5,136 households out of which 33.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.8% were married couples living together, 13.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.2% were non-families. 22.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.27.
In the town the population was spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 36.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 104.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.2 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $41,350, and the median income for a family was $48,489. Males had a median income of $33,069 versus $26,858 for females. The per capita income for the town was $18,490. About 10.1% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.5% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.
Government
Local government
The city is presently governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government.
The Town of Harrison is divided into four electoral wards, with each ward then being divided into three districts, for a total of 12 electoral districts in Harrison. Each ward is represented by two council members, with a total of eight councilmembers on the Town Council.
The head of the government is the Mayor. The Mayor chairs the Town Council and heads the municipal government. The Mayor may both vote on legislation before the Council and veto ordinances. The Mayor's veto can be overruled by ¾ of the Town Council voting to overrule the veto.
Town Council meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 pm (except in July and August, when no meetings are held), in Council Chambers, which is located on the second floor of the Town Hall at 318 Harrison Avenue. Public Caucus Meetings are held at 6:30pm in Room 301.
The current Mayor and Councilmembers are:
Mayor Raymond J. McDonough, Councilman - 1977-1995, Mayor since January 1, 1995 (Current term in office expires December 31, 2010)
Members of the Harrison Town Council are:[2]
1st Ward:
★ Jesus Huaranga (term expires 2010)
★ Caroline Mandaglio (term expires 2007)
2nd Ward:
★ Steve McCormick (2010)
★ Victor Villalta (2007)
3rd Ward:
★ Larry Bennett (2010)
★ Michael Rodgers (2007) (not seeking re-election)
4th Ward:
★ James Doran (2010)
★ Michael Dolaghan (2007)
2006 Elections
The 'Primary Election' was held on June 6, 2006. Candidates listed were running for the Democratic Party nomination for their respective offices. Results of the Primary Election were (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):[3]
★ Mayor:
★
★ McDonough
★ - 1,159 votes
★
★ Michael J. Hinchcliffe - 651
★ First Ward: Jesus Huaranga - 256
★ Second Ward: Pettigrew
★ - 271
★ Third Ward: Laurence Bennett - 490
★ Fourth Ward: Doran
★ - 317
The 'General Election' was held on November 7, 2006. Candidates who ran in this race were (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):
★ Mayor: Raymond J. McDonough
★ (D), Anselmo Millan (Independent Democrat).
On June 12, 2006, Hudson County Clerk Javier Inclán dropped Millan from the November ballot after he determined that the candidate and his wife, who had signed Millan's petition, had previously signed a petition supporting Michael Hinchcliffe in his unsuccessful mayoral bid in Harrison's 2006 Democratic Primary.[4] In his ruling on July 11, 2006, Judge Carmen Messano stated that "the objections raised by County Clerk Javier Inclan and Mayor Raymond McDonough were flawed and that the laws were written 'to allow the greatest scope for public participation in the electoral process, to allow candidates to get on the ballot, to allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly to allow the voters a choice on Election Day.'" Millan was included on the November General Election ballot.[5]
2006 'General Election Results':[6]
Mayor -
★ McDonough
★ (D) - 1,586 votes
★ Millan (ID) - 1,088 votes (a difference of 498 votes)
Town Council -
1st Ward -
★ Huaranga (D) - 308 votes
★ Camano (ID) - 238 votes (a difference of 70 votes)
2nd Ward -
★ Pettigrew
★ (D) - 271 votes
★ McCormick (ID) - 316 votes (a difference of 45 votes)
3rd Ward -
★ Bennett - 602 votes
4th Ward -
★ Doran
★ (D) - 425 votes
★ Wood (ID) - 214 votes (a difference of 211 votes)
2007 Elections
The 'Primary Election' was held on June 5, 2007. Candidates listed were running for the Democratic Party nomination for their respective offices. Results of the Primary Election were (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):
1st Ward -
★ Caroline Mandaglio
★ - 130 votes
2nd Ward -
★ Victor Villata
★ - 136 votes
3rd Ward -
★ Francisco Nasciemento - 245
4th Ward -
★ Michael Dologhan
★ - 197[7]
The 'General Election' will be held on November 6, 2007. Candidates listed are running for the Town Council (asterisk denotes incumbent candidate):
1st Ward -
★ Caroline Mandaglio
★ (D)
★ Maria Camano (Independent Democrat)
2nd Ward -
★ Victor Villalta
★ (D)
★ Maria McCormick (Independent Democrat)
3rd Ward -
★ Francisco Nasciemento (D)
4th Ward -
★ Michael Dolaghan
★ (D)
★ Joseph Wood (Independent Democrat)
Federal, State and County Representation
Harrison is in the Thirteenth Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 32nd Legislative District.[8]
Education
The Harrison Public Schools is comprised of four schools. Schools in the district (with 2003-04 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics for the three schools in the district as of this time) are Lincoln Elementary School (which houses 872 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten to 5th), Washington Middle School(which houses 362 students in grades 6th to 8th), Harrison High School (which houses 719 students in grades 9th to 12th), and the soon to be opened New Harrison High School.
The Harrison Public School District is participating in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. For the 2005-06. school year parents can request to transfer a child from the Washington School, designated by the State of New Jersey as a Category I School, to another school which is not a Category I School. Since there is only one elementary school in Harrison, parents can request a transfer to the Hoboken Public Schools under the Choice program. A transfer request will depend upon the capacity of the selected Hoboken school.[9]
In September 2007, Harrison will realign the grades being housed in each of the school buildings in town. The New Harrison High School, located on Hamilton Street between Kingsland and Schuyler Avenues, will open. As a result, the current Harrison High School, located on 1 North 5th Street, will be renamed as Washington Middle School. The current Washington Middle School, located on Hamilton Street between North 2nd and North 3rd Streets, will house the 4th and 5th grades that currently use Holy Cross School. Holy Cross School will then be vacated by the Harrison Public School district.
Transportation
The Harrison station on the PATH regional rail system offers service to Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken and New York City. The Northeast Corridor, built in the 19th Century by the Pennsylvania Railroad and now owned by Amtrak, and carries New Jersey Transit trains, passes through the city on the same alignment as the PATH. There was a stop on the Northeast Corridor in Harrison, but it was eliminated due to the ease of picking up trains in Newark at Penn Station.
Harrison is served by buses operated by several bus companies. New Jersey Transit offers service within New Jersey on the 39, 40 and 43 routes.[10]
By car, Harrison depends on Interstate 280 which runs through town. Westward, I-280 leads to Route 21, the Garden State Parkway, and Interstate 80. Eastward, it leads to Route 7 and the New Jersey Turnpike.
The closest airport in New Jersey with scheduled passenger service is Newark Liberty International Airport, located 4.8 miles away in Newark / Elizabeth. New York City's LaGuardia Airport is 20.2 miles away in Flushing, Queens via the Lincoln Tunnel.
Redevelopment
Portions of Harrison are currently undergoing transit-oriented redevelopment under a plan developed by the community planning and design firm, Heyer, Gruel & Associates LLC and adopted by the Harrison Redevelopment Agency. With the construction of new high school athletic facilities, the Harrison Board of Education sold the former John F. Kennedy Stadium to the Roseland Property Co./Millennium Homes development group, where currently new townhouses are being built. The Hampton Inn and Suites Newark/Harrison Riverwalk Hotel opened on December 31, 2004 across from Newark along the Passaic River. The area stretching from the PATH train station south to the Harrison/Newark border has been designated as a redevelopment zone (275 acres, or about 35% of the town). Plans are now underway to transform the aforementioned area of the town from deindustrialized, abandoned factories into a transit village containing high-rise office complexes and street-level retail. The current design will introduce seven- to nine-thousand new housing units. Redevelopment groups participating in these projects include the Advance Reality Group and the Pegasus Group, LLC, led by the architectural firm Torti Gallas and Partners CHK, Inc.
Sports
After a few years of delays, Red Bull and the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) announced in 2006 that Red Bull Park will be the new home of the Major League Soccer team, Red Bull New York. The new stadium is part of the large redevelopment plan for Harrison. The stadium will hold 25,000 fans and will feature a European style roof. In addition to soccer, Red Bull Park will also host games for professional men's lacrosse and international rugby teams as well as championship matches on the collegiate and secondary school levels. Furthermore, AEG Live is sponsoring 8-12 national concerts at the stadium each year. For more information, visit the Red Bull Park website.
The Adler lawsuit
In July 2006, property owner Steve Adler filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court alleging, among several grounds, that the Harrison Redevelopment Agency was illegally formed and its actions are void ab initio.[11] The lawsuit alleges that the composition of the Harrison Redevelopment Agency violates New Jersey Department of Community Affairs guidelines for membership of the board, the Town Ordinance promulgating the board, and the State Statute empowering the redevelopment agency. The board from its onset did not have professionals of various fields as members. Rather, it had, in violation of the town ordinance and state statute, more than two members who were political officials or employees of the Town of Harrison. If the lawsuit is successful, all designated developers could be stripped of their development designation.
Noted residents
★ Daisy Fuentes, model, actress and former MTV VJ.[12]
★ Fred A. Hartley, Jr., served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jersey's 10th congressional districts.[13]
★ Ray Lucas, former NFL quarterback who played for the New York Jets, among other teams.[14]
★ Edward F. McDonald (1844-1926), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1895 to 1899.[15]
Trivia
★ Harrison is believed to have had the longest-serving Mayor in American history, Frank E. Rodgers, who was first elected in 1946 and served for 48 years, from 1947 to 1995, being elected to 24 two-year terms. He also served one term in the New Jersey State Senate, from 1979 to 1983.
★ Harrison has been featured in portions of the HBO hit series ''The Sopranos''. The high school was used as the location of an open casting call by HBO which brought 10,000-plus mafia hopefuls to the town, doubling the town's population and bringing traffic to a standstill.
★ Nathan Lane performed on the high school's stage before breaking into acting.
References
1. Chinese Communities, Epodunk. Accessed August 23, 2006.
2. Harrison Town Council, Town of Harrison. Accessed January 1, 2007.
3. McDonough wins; Nov. indie slate, ''Jersey Journal'', June 7, 2006.
4. Three candidates knocked off November ballots by county clerk, ''Jersey Journal'', June 14, 2006.
5. Millan back on Nov. ballot, ''Kearny Journal'', July 13, 2006.
6. Hudson County Election Results, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed November 11, 2006.
7. Hudson County Election Results, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed June 6, 2007.
8. 2006 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government, New Jersey League of Women Voters, p. 58. Accessed August 30, 2006.
9. Inter District Public School Choice Program, Harrison Public Schools. Accessed May 23, 2006.
10. Hudson County Bus/rail Connections, New Jersey Transit. Accessed July 3, 2007.
11. Adler far from pleased with redevelopment, ''The Observer'', October 25, 2006.
12. Durrani, Shandana . "Thriving Miss Daisy: From MTV Veejay to Model to Actress to Talk Show Host, Daisy Fuentes Is Always Seeking New Worlds to Conquer", ''Cigar Aficionado'', November / December 1997. Accessed July 3, 2007. "After five years there, the Fuentes emigrated to the United States, moving to Newark, New Jersey, and eventually settling in neighboring Harrison."
13. Fred Allen Hartley Jr. biography, United States Congress. Accessed July 3, 2007.
14. Forrester, Paul. "The Overachiever: Ray Lucas Surmounts All Obstacles as He Guides the Jets Back to Respectability", ''The Village Voice'', December 1, 1999. Accessed July 3, 2007. "It's the sort of tale that Lucas has been writing, and rewriting, since he was a teenager in Harrison, New Jersey."
15. Edward Francis McDonald biography, United States Congress. Accessed August 12, 2007.
External links
★ Harrison website
★ Harrison Public School District
★ Redevelopment Plans - Harrison MetroCentre
★ Harrison Discussion website
★
★ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Harrison Public School District
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