Englewood Makes History

Places (65 total)

  • Almay's West Indian Kitchen The_Record_1999_12_08_39.jpg

    Opened in 1987, Almay's was Bergen County's first Caribbean Restaurant. Owned by Alvin Whilby, the restaurant was located at 98 West Palisade Avenue.
  • Bullock Funeral Home.jpg

    The Bullock Funeral Home was created by Charles H. Bullock Jr. One was open in Hackensack and one was open in Englewood.
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  • Crystal Lake.jpg

    Crystal Lake is a lake and park on East Sheffield Avenue in Englewood. 
  • Millers Pond.jpg

    Millers Pond is a body of water near Liberty Road and Dwight Morrow High School. Historically there have been pollution issues with the pond.
  • Abel Smith Farm.png

    Abel I. Smith bought a large section of land in Secaucus in 1733. The Farm was 206 acres of the wester Hudson Palisades. The Smiths owned the land until December 1, 1908 when it was turned over to B.M. Shanley's Sons' Company and H.S. Korbaugh Company of West Virginia for $255,000
  • Santa Barbara Grocery Store.jpg

    Santa Barbara Grocery store on Slocum Avenue. The grocery store was one of the first to serve the growing Latinx community emerging in the third ward. Arely Rincon gained possession of the store in 2012.
  • Harlem-on-the-Hudsone The_Record_1938_10_07_20.jpg

    Harlem-on-the-Hudson was a popular black-owned nightclub in Englewood Cliffs.
  • Madonna Park The_Record_1923_08_29_11.jpg

    Madonna Park near Forest Avenue and Williams Street became a center of boxing and baseball in New Jersey in the 1920s. Negro League teams often played in the park, including Englewood's own Cubs and world-famous boxers like Jack Dempsey would attend matches. Owned by the Knights of Columbus the Park became the Englewood Arena in 1930 and was operated by the Bergen County Sportsmen Club.
  • Bennigan's The_Record_1984_09_19_78.jpg

    Bennigans is an Irish pub food chain. There was a restaurant in Englewood on 412 South Van Brunt Street.
  • Downbeat Records.jpg

    Downbeat Records was a record store on Palisades Avenue.
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