Ridgewood NJ, Look in the sky its a bird no its a plane and the new flight path to Teterboro Airport, intended to reduce noise around Hackensack University Medical Center, could take jets over Valley Hospital and Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood . This according to a map of the new flight procedure published by a navigational aid company ahead of a six-month trial of the route, which is due to begin on Monday.
The Bergen Record is reporting that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has emphasized that its new they call it the “quiet visual” approach for Teterboro Airport shifts aircraft west of their current route to track Route 17 south from Mahwah to Rochelle Park. The idea is to minimize noise pollution by keeping aircraft over or close to the highway, itself a source of noise.
But the new flight procedure, published by Jeppesen, a Boeing company, shows that a significant portion of the approach takes pilots west of Route 17, particularly between Waldwick and Paramus.
The new flight path according to Jeppesen’s chart has jets approaching Teterboro dropping to a minimum of 3,000 feet around Mahwah, passing over Mahwah and Ramsey high schools. The next descend brings flights to about 2,000 feet, as they approach Julia A Traphagen Elementary School in Waldwick. Then planes would continue south, passing Ho-Ho-Kus Elementary School and, in Ridgewood, Benjamin Franklin Middle School and The Valley Hospital.
As flights continue over Paramus, jets will fly over Stony Lane School and Midland Elementary School as well as close by Bergen Community College, before coming in to land over the top of IKEA and the Westfield Garden State Plaza, while staying more than 1 mile west of Hackensack University Medical Center.
Some Bergen County politicians reacted with surprise earlier this month when the Federal Aviation Administration announced it was moving a busy flight path to Teterboro Airport, apparently at the last minute.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015, 10:07 AM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2015, 12:26 AM
BY STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
The pilot who crash-landed a small plane into a Cresskill recreational field desperately searched for a safe place to land, passing by two other fields because they were filled with people before he finally made a dead-engine touchdown behind a local swim club, authorities said.
The pilot, Jack Rosenberg of Spring Valley, N.Y., and Erik Pearson were on a routine patrol for the Coast Guard Auxiliary over the Hudson River when the engine faltered.
When Rosenberg couldn’t make it to Teterboro Airport with his sputtering engine, he tried to make an emergency landing in Tenafly but decided against that because the field was full of people, Cresskill Police Chief Ed Wrixon said.
After finding a Cresskill baseball field occupied, the pilot crashed near Regan Field behind the Cresskill Swim Club late Thursday afternoon just hours before youth sports teams were due to practice.
Ed Schwartz drinking from a coconut he picked off a tree during a previous trip to Maui. (Photos courtesy of Julie Tung)
RIDGEWOOD—With only a few weeks to live, a Ridgewood man is on his way to fulfill his dying wish: to see the sunset in Hawaii.
“I think it’s one of the most beautiful places on the planet,” said Ed Schwartz, whose battle with blood cancer can no longer be waged medically. “Doctors are telling me I only have a few weeks. I’d much rather spend the time there, in paradise.”
Schwartz, known locally as “Eco Ed” for his work as an environmentalist, began his journey to Maui on Wednesday, along with his wife, Julie Tung, and his son, Kyle. They took off this morning from Teterboro in an air ambulance, heading to Oakland, Calif., in order to take a charter plane for the rest of the way. Friends and community members have raised more than $35,000 on a GoFundMe page to help make the trip possible.
After undergoing chemotherapy, a stem cell transplant and various trials, Schwartz has run out of treatment options and doesn’t have much time left, Tung told NJ Advance Media by phone, when they stopped to refuel the medical transport in Omaha, Neb. They don’t have a set plan for their visit, except to relax and enjoy the scenery, she said.
“We don’t have a game plan. We don’t know how long we’ll have,” she said. “If he could just see one last sunset, it will be worth it.”
Schwartz was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare form of blood cancer, in late 2013. Before he started chemotherapy, he asked his doctor if he could first take a trip to Hawaii, Tung said. The answer was “yes, but you’ll die.” So, they held off on the trip, but now, knowing that the cancer is incurable, “it’s time to go,” she said.
When Bill Ochs was 21 and fresh out of Fairleigh Dickinson University with an electrical engineering degree in 1979, he landed a job with a local government contractor, Bendix in Teterboro. He soon found himself developing the software that would keep the Hubble Space Telescope pointed in the right direction for 25 years, providing unimaginably beautiful images of intergalactic space.
Hubble, which was intended to have a useful life of 15 years, hits the quarter-century mark today, and scientists expect its nearly 8-foot mirror to keep peering into deep space and providing spectacular sights for at least five more years. (Norman/The Record)
Where are the lowest property taxes in Bergen County?
BY MICHAEL SHETLER
Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Village Square Realty 0569304
January 07, 2015 04:59 AM
Bergen County property tax info released for 2014-15.
The state of New Jersey has just released tax rates for every municipality in the state. Before you look at the chart below, can you guess which Bergen County towns have the highest and lowest property taxes?
Ok, now you can look. If you guessed “Paramus” has the lowest, you would be partially right. While it’s eighth on the list, it qualifies as the lowest taxed borough with affordable home prices. Alpine, Saddle River, Englewood Cliffs, Rockleigh, Edgewater and Franklin Lakes all have an average list price above $1 million. (Teterboro essentially has no single family homes.) In Paramus, the average list is in the $600k range.
On the other end of the spectrum with an effective tax rate more than five times higher than Alpine’s isBogota. The general tax rate in Bogota is 3.630 and and its effective tax rate is 3.222.
What’s the difference between the two rates?
The general tax rate doesn’t take into account that your home’s assessed value is not equal to its market value. If your tax rate is high but your assessed value ratio is low, your taxes aren’t as high as you think they are – you’re not being taxed on the full value of your home!
So if you’re comparing tax rates between towns, use the effective tax rate.
The equalization ratio in the chart is simply an average of the area’s assessed value divided by the market value. The general tax rate is multiplied by the equalization ratio to get the effective tax rate. (Also see this video on comparing tax rates.)
For tax rate info on other counties in New Jersey, click here.
If you’re thinking of buying in Bergen County, call me for a consultation. I’ll give you an overview on how taxes and other factors such as quality of schools, commuting options and population density should figure into your buying decision.
Michael Shetler
Keller Williams Realty
201-421-0506 cell
201-445-4300 office
…STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL BERGEN…PASSAIC AND ROCKLAND COUNTIES…
AT 312 PM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PATERSON…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE… NEAR HAWTHORNE BY 320 PM. 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF TETERBORO BY 325 PM. NEAR RIDGEWOOD BY 335 PM. NEAR PARAMUS BY 340 PM. NEAR ORADELL BY 345 PM.
SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION…VERY HEAVY RAIN IS OCCURRING. THIS COULD CA– USE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS… AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER…IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER…YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
JULY 20, 2014 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014, 1:43 PM BY ELISA UNG RECORD COLUMNIST THE RECORD
This summer, we’ll be spotlighting locally produced foods and drinks that have caught the attention of North Jersey’s chefs, bartenders and other tastemakers.
Where it’s on the menu
Moveable Feast provided this list of the local restaurants, caterers and clubs that serve its smoked salmon and other fish:
Alpine Country Club
Bareli’s, Secaucus
Bottagra, Hawthorne
Chakra, Paramus
Chef’s Table, Franklin Lakes
Fiesta Banquet, Wood-Ridge
The Elan, Lodi
The Graycliff, Moonachie
Latour, Ridgewood
Le Jardin, Edgewater
The Park Steakhouse, Park Ridge
Park West Tavern, Ridgewood
Rudy’s Inflight Catering, Teterboro
Village Green, Ridgewood
Alain Quirin has always been intrigued by how fresh-from-the-sea salmon can be transformed into the thin, silky, smoky slices that are twirled into canapés and draped onto buffet trays.
When the French-born chef ran the kitchen at the Greenwich Village restaurant Raoul’s, he often could be found spending afternoons on an outdoor terrace, tending to a few fillets of salmon in a small smoker, which he piled with ice to keep it from getting too hot.
“It was kind of like a game for me,” Quirin said. “It was interesting to go from A to Z on something that normally you just open a package.”
And eventually, he and his wife, Denise, turned that game into a family business. Their Moveable Feast, whose headquarters is in a Moonachie industrial complex, cold-smokes 5,000 pounds of buttery salmon a week, and customers say its quality is unrivaled.
“It’s just so much fresher,” said Chris Waters, executive chef of The Elan catering hall in Lodi, who serves platters of smoked salmon and also uses it in an avocado salad with apples and red onion. “You can smell the smoke as soon as you open the package. It takes over the room. People turn their heads.”
At Village Green in Ridgewood, chef-owner Kevin Portscher layers the salmon over warm potato pancakes, garnished with onions, capers and dill crème fraîche. “I couldn’t make it better myself — that’s why I buy it from him,” Portscher said. “There’s no chemicals, no crazy flavors. It’s fish, salt, hickory smoke. That’s the way they’ve been doing it for hundreds of years.”
Adds another Ridgewood chef, Michael Latour, who occasionally uses the fish in specials: “Some salmon can be a little too slimy. His technique is drier.”
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/food-and-dining-news/food-news/the-deans-of-smoked-salmon-1.1054271#sthash.Uh9A5QQR.dpuf
A Super Bowl Message From Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan
The Super Bowl is literally just around the corner and I wanted to take this time to express how exciting it is to have this major event right in our own back yard! The Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks with their fans from around the world will be coming to this region to the biggest event in sports. With this influx of visitors, I strongly encourage residents to keep informed on traffic delays and to plan accordingly.
Traffic and Public Transportation: The Getting to the Game website (www.nj.gov/superbowl) is a collaborative effort involving the New Jersey State Police, the Department of Transportation, the Port Authority of NY/NJ, New Jersey Transit and other state public safety and transportation agencies. The website will serve as a location for state government and public transportation agencies to post important information for state residents and out-of- town visitors as New Jersey gears up for the Super Bowl.
The website will give users access to an interactive map showing real-time traffic delays in the area of MetLife Stadium. The Port Authority has provided links to information on bridges, tunnels, airports, and PATH subway services. New Jersey Transit has provided links to bus and train schedules, rail maps, and fare information. Real-time weather information for the East Rutherford area is posted. The website also allows local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to post public safety information.
Teterboro: Speaking of traffic, it will not only be cars. Be aware that you will hear an increase in airplane traffic at Teterboro Airport. There is a no-fly zone established on February 2 that will shut down air traffic at Teterboro from about 4:00 p.m. until one hour after the game ends. Then there will be a rush of traffic from about midnight until 5:00 a.m. on February 3. With that exception of post-game operations, the voluntary restriction on operations between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. will remain in effect and mandatory departure noise limits will be in effect. Aircraft with an operating weight in excess of 100,000 are not permitted to land or take-off. The increased air traffic at Teterboro will also increase car traffic in the area.
Events: There will be many events and celebration leading up to the game. In an effort to keep you up to date with the most current information, I have compiled the following links that will help residents to stay informed about the game, traffic, events and anything else you will need! These sites and more can also be found at the county’s website at www.co.bergen.nj.us.
FAQs – This Frequently Asked Question site is provided by the Super Bowl of NY & NJ Host Committee. Here you will find answers to your questions ranging from information about the stadium, NJ Transit, parking, events and the game itself. If you have a question, here you will find the answer.
A Guide to Staying Healthy for the Big Game – The New Jersey Department of Health has created this “Guide to a Safe Super Bowl” for both residents and visitors alike. It will provide you information on health-related issues that are specific to this Super Bowl – such as how to deal with extreme cold weather – as well as information on food safety for those having parties and how to reduce the spread of infectious diseases. Here you will find videos, posters, facts sheets and other information that will help you stay healthy and enjoy this exciting game and the activities surrounding it.
NJTransit Super Bowl Information – NJTransit’s Super Bowl Page has all the information you will need to get around the “First Mass Transit Super Bowl”. Information on NJTransit’s SUPER PASS as well as a complete regional transit diagram can be found on this site.
Super Bowl Host Committee of NY & NJ – The site provides information such as a calendar of events, a NY/NJ visitor guide, game information and much more.
NorthJersey.com’s Fan Guide – North Jersey.com has compiled an evolving list of Super Bowl events in and around Bergen for you. New Jersey has all sorts of activities planned for Super Bowl week, including concerts, parties, family fun, ice skating, tastings, celebrity appearances and more. Check back frequently for new additions and updates.
Bergen County is honored to be home to the Super Bowl. To those visiting Bergen County for the first time – Welcome! Most importantly to residents and visitors alike, please be safe and enjoy the game!
10 Bergen County schools on list of highest performing in state
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The Record
Ten Bergen County schools are among 57 that New Jersey has deemed to be “Reward Schools,” meaning they were among the highest performing in the state last year, or saw the greatest student gains in passing state tests.
Most of the schools winning the new designation — which the state Department of Education posted online last week with little fanfare — are in affluent communities or are selective magnet schools, such as the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack and Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro.
The others in the high-performance category include Alpine Elementary School, Lyncrest Elementary School in Fair Lawn, Richard E. Byrd School and Central School in Glen Rock, Charles DeWolf Middle School in Old Tappan and Sicomac Elementary School in Wyckoff. The state said these schools had the highest rates of proficiency on state tests last spring — schoolwide and in various racial and ethnic groups.
Two Bergen schools, Hillside Elementary in Closter and Orchard Elementary in Ridgewood, were deemed to have shown especially high growth for three years.
EYEWITNESS: Menendez, Donor Brunched at Diner Mile from Teterboro Airport on Easter 2012
HACKENSACK, N.J, — A local citizen who lives near Teterboro airport in northern New Jersey said he saw Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his friend Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen brunching together on Easter Sunday in 2012.
The citizen, who is active in local politics and a regular patron of the restaurant, told Breitbart News he saw Menendez and Melgen dining together at Arena Diner between shortly before noon and 12:15 p.m. on Easter Sunday last year, April 8, 2012. That is the timeframe in which Melgen’s plane refueled at Teterboro before flying directly to the Dominican Republic.
Menendez and his staff have denied he was on any flights on Melgen’s plane outside of three flights in 2010. If he was on this flight, as it appears he was, it means he will have misled the American people. This new eyewitness evidence solidifies previous reports that Menendez was likely on that flight.
The source had previously recognized Menendez, and shown a photograph of Melgen at a meeting inside the diner with this reporter, he said: “Yes, that’s him. Undeniably.”
Politicians continue to spend like there is no tomorrow ,maybe there wont be
Bergen exec Donovan to unveil budget today boosting county spending
Wednesday January 16, 2013, 1:49 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan will propose a 2013 budget today that would raise county spending 4.1 percent.
That will mean an additional $29.18 in property taxes for the owner of the average home assessed at $340,000.
The overall increase – which includes areas of spending not covered by the state’s two percent budget cap – does not call for any layoffs. The tax hike will generate an additional $14.8 million in revenue.
About $2.7 million of that money will go toward paying salaries and fringe benefits for the staff of a new $28 million juvenile detention center in Teterboro that is scheduled to open later this year.
Port Authority Service Advisories Airports
November 6, 2012
10:15 a.m.
LaGuardia Airport is open, however, travelers are urged to contact their airlines before coming to the airport to learn about potential delays and cancellations.
John F. Kennedy International Airport is open, however, travelers are urged to contact their airlines before coming to the airport to learn about potential delays and cancellations.
AirTrain JFK has resumed service.
Newark Liberty International Airport is open, however, travelers are urged to contact their airlines before coming to the airport to learn about potential delays and cancellations.
AirTrain Newark has resumed service.
Stewart International Airport is open, however, travelers are urged to contact their airlines before coming to the airport to learn about potential delays and cancellations.
I do like Kathy Donovan but I think there is more to it. As written in North Jersey Media. piece ; according to Little Ferry Borough Administrator Michael Capabianco, the contract offered to Teterboro by County P D is $100,000 a year for three years. We all know a police officer’s salary and benefits in Bergen county far exceed this . So how do you patrol the entire town of Teterboro 24/7 for that amount. I would suspect that the costs are being passed on to each resident in Bergen County through county taxes.
Getting rid of home rule is clearly an attempt to consolidate more power by the County. A more distant County PD will become a far lager bureaucracy and be far less responsive to local needs . Just think how long it will take a Bergen Police Officer to respond to your call for help from where their stationed.
The Cost saving would to disband the County police and supplement local Police departments to pickup the slack to patrol Bergen County property would in my mind realize greater cost savings and keep policing local where they better understand the local situation.
>Donovan says home rule is costing Bergen too much
WEDNESDAY MARCH 14, 2012, 9:13 PM BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN AND JAMES QUIRK STAFF WRITERS THE RECORD
Bergen County’s tradition of home rule is costing taxpayers far too much money, County Executive Kathleen Donovan said Wednesday in championing an effort to consolidate services and share costs among its 70 municipalities.
“Why do we have so many freaking levels of government?” she asked during a 90-minute interview with The Record editorial board. “I’ve been in government a long time, and it makes no sense to me.”
On the eve of her annual state of the county address, Donovan said she will press this year to continue to reduce costs through such programs as the county emergency dispatch system and bulk purchases. As an example, she cited an agreement reached late last year to have the Bergen County police patrol the northern part of Teterboro.
