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72-490: Champion was the first film production company to establish itself in the area around Fort Lee, New Jersey , when the town was the home of America's first motion picture industry It built its studio in the vicinity of Fort Lee, at the town line with Englewood Cliffs in Coytesville, then a relatively remote area, to make them look as little like a studio as possible. The building was demolished on 2013. Dintenfass tried avoid

144-576: 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

216-828: A South Korean delegation had endorsed Palisades Park's decision. In October 2012, a similar memorial was announced in nearby Hackensack , to be raised behind the Bergen County Courthouse , alongside memorials to the Holocaust , the Great Famine of Ireland , and the Armenian genocide , and was unveiled in March 2013. On May 23, 2018, a comfort women memorial was installed in Constitution Park in Fort Lee. Youth Council of Fort Lee,

288-609: 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

360-399: 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 a pebbly shore, just rude enough to break

432-513: 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

504-577: 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 ,

576-641: A movie theater, performing arts center, and film museum, was constructed at a cost of $ 16 million and opened in October 2022. Since 2007, the Hudson Shakespeare Company has brought their Shakespeare in the Park touring shows to Fort Lee in "Shakespeare Tuesdays". The group now performs regularly at Monument Park (1588 Palisade Avenue, next to the Fort Lee Museum) with two Tuesday shows per month during

648-404: A number which has risen significantly since then, featuring restaurants and karaoke ( noraebang ) bars, grocery markets, education centers and bookstores , banking institutions, offices, electronics vendors, apparel boutiques, and other commercial enterprises. Various Korean American groups could not reach consensus on the design and wording for a monument in Fort Lee as of early April 2013 to

720-486: 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 is comprised of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The borough form of government used by Fort Lee is a " weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as

792-514: A road which is now Main Street) that Thomas Paine composed his pamphlet, The American Crisis , which began with the recognized phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls." These events are recalled at Monument Park and Fort Lee Historic Park . Fort Lee was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1904, from the remaining portions of Ridgefield Township . With

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864-476: A speech referring to New Jersey Senate Democrats as "animals" just one day before emails were sent by Christie's aides to the Port Authority requesting the lane closures. At the turn of the 21st century, Fort Lee saw a large Korean migration which has converted much of the town into a large Koreatown , in that many traditional Korean stores and restaurants may be seen in Fort Lee, and the hangul letters of

936-990: 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

1008-409: A student organization led by Korean American high school students in Fort Lee designed the memorial. The Fort Lee lane closure scandal , also known as Bridgegate, was a political scandal concerning the actions taken by the staff of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his Port Authority appointees to create a traffic jam in Fort Lee when dedicated toll lanes for one of the Fort Lee entrances to

1080-582: A total of 18,382 registered voters in Fort Lee, of which 7,537 (41.0% vs. 31.7% countywide) were registered as Democrats , 2,487 (13.5% vs. 21.1%) were registered as Republicans and 8,350 (45.4% vs. 47.1%) were registered as Unaffiliated . There were 8 voters registered to other parties. Among the borough's 2010 Census population, 52.0% (vs. 57.1% in Bergen County) were registered to vote, including 62.6% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide). Hudson Palisades The Palisades , also called

1152-489: Is located in the 5th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 37th state legislative district. For the 118th United States Congress , New Jersey's 5th congressional district is represented by Josh Gottheimer ( D , Wyckoff ). 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

1224-759: Is now the oldest existing company in Hollywood, now called the Hollywood Digital Laboratory. California 's more temperate climate enabled year-round filming and led to the eventual shift of virtually all filmmaking to the West Coast by the 1930s. At the time, Thomas Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production. Movie producers on the East Coast acting independently of Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company were often sued or enjoined by Edison and his agents, while movie makers working on

1296-601: Is the highest of any municipality in Bergen County, at 52% of the population, enumerating 10,115 residents of Korean ancestry; while Fort Lee has nearly as many Koreans by absolute numbers, at 8,318, representing 23.5% of its 2010 population. Along with Koreatowns in New York City and Long Island , the Bergen County Koreatowns serve as the nexus for an overall Korean American population of 218,764 individuals in

1368-505: 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

1440-551: The 2000 United States census there were 35,461 people, 16,544 households, and 9,396 families residing in the borough. The population density was 14,001.7 inhabitants per square mile (5,406.1/km ). There were 17,446 housing units at an average density of 6,888.5 per square mile (2,659.7/km ). The racial makeup of the borough was 62.75% White , 31.43% Asian , 1.73% African American , 0.07% Native American , 0.06% Pacific Islander , 1.69% from other races , and 2.26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7.87% of

1512-483: The 2010 census , (increasing to 6.9% by the 2011 American Community Survey ), is the highest of any county in the United States, with all of the nation's top ten municipalities by percentage of Korean population and an absolute total of 56,773 Korean Americans (increasing to 63,247 by the 2011 American Community Survey) living in the county. The concentration of Korean Americans in nearby Palisades Park in turn

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1584-504: The 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial election . Another theory was that Christie or his aides sought to punish New Jersey Senate majority leader, Loretta Weinberg , who represented the New Jersey district containing Fort Lee, as retribution for the Democrats' blocking of Christie's reappointment of a New Jersey Supreme Court justice. Christie withdrew his appointee consideration and delivered

1656-639: The 2024-2025 session , the 37th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the New Jersey Senate by Gordon M. Johnson ( D , Englewood ) and in the General Assembly by Shama Haider (D, Tenafly ) and Ellen Park (D, Englewood Cliffs ). 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

1728-608: 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 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

1800-481: The George Washington Bridge Plaza leading to the George Washington Bridge . Unincorporated communities , localities and place names located partially or completely within the borough include Coytesville, Linwood, Palisade and Taylorville. The borough borders Cliffside Park , Edgewater , Englewood , Englewood Cliffs , Leonia , Palisades Park , and Ridgefield in Bergen County, along with

1872-698: The Greater New York Combined Statistical Area , the second largest population of ethnic Koreans outside of Korea. In March 2011, about 2,500 Japanese-Americans were living in Edgewater and Fort Lee, the largest concentration of Japanese-Americans in New Jersey. There were 1,119 Fort Lee residents who filed claims to recover lost money from the Madoff investment scandal , the most from any ZIP code. The 2010 United States census counted 35,345 people, 16,371 households, and 9,364 families in

1944-1022: The Kalem Company began using Fort Lee in 1907 as a location for filming in the area, other filmmakers quickly followed. In 1909, a forerunner of Universal Studios , the Champion Film Company , built the first studio. They were quickly followed by others who either built new studios or who leased facilities in Fort Lee. In the 1910s and 1920s, film companies such as the Independent Moving Pictures Company , Peerless Studios , The Solax Company , Éclair Studios , Goldwyn Picture Corporation , American Méliès (Star Films), World Film Company , Biograph Studios , Fox Film Corporation , Pathé Frères , Metro Pictures Corporation , Victor Film Company , and Selznick Pictures Corporation were all making pictures in Fort Lee. Such notables as Mary Pickford got their start at Biograph Studios. With

2016-646: 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 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

2088-585: 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,

2160-587: The United States Census Bureau , Fort Lee borough had a total area of 2.87 square miles (7.44 km ), including 2.52 square miles (6.52 km ) of land and 0.35 square miles (0.92 km ) of water (12.33%). The borough is situated atop the escarpment of the Hudson Palisades on the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson rivers. The borough is bisected by the confluence of roads at

2232-640: The Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City . Given its evolving cosmopolitan ambiance and adjacency to Manhattan across the George Washington Bridge, Fort Lee, one of the Hudson Waterfront communities of northern New Jersey, has been called a sixth borough of New York City. The Lenape peoples were inhabiting the area when Captain Henry Hudson was

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2304-677: The 1970s. In the 1990s, a continuous stream of Korean immigrants emerged into Fort Lee. A substantial number of affluent and educated Korean American professionals have settled in Bergen County since the early 2000s and have founded various academic and communally supportive organizations, including the Korean Parent Partnership Organization at the Bergen County Academies magnet high school and The Korean-American Association of New Jersey. Approximately 130 Korean stores were counted in downtown Fort Lee in 2000,

2376-729: 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 the Hackensack River , avoiding capture in what is remembered as Washington's Retreat. The Palisades were

2448-508: The Borough Council are Council President Harvey Sohmer (D, 2024), Joseph L. Cervieri Jr. (D, 2024), Bryan Drumgoole (D, 2026), Ila Kasofsky (D, 2025), Peter J. Suh (D, 2025) and Paul K. Yoon (D, 2026). In November 2022, the borough council appointed Bryan Drumgoole to fill the seat expiring in December 2023 that had been held by Michael Sargenti until he resigned from office. Fort Lee

2520-515: The Fort Lee Film Commission has been charged with celebrating the history of film in Fort Lee, as well as attracting film and television production companies to the borough. The Barrymore Film Center promotes films, filmmaking and its history in the borough. In 1957, market researcher James Vicary claimed that quickly flashing messages on a movie screen, in Fort Lee, had influenced people to purchase more food and drinks. Vicary coined

2592-671: The Korean alphabet are as common as signs in English in parts of the downtown area. This Koreatown is separate from the similar Korean enclave in the adjacent town of Palisades Park . The rapid increase of the Korean population has seen the decline of many other immigrant communities once centered in Fort Lee, notably the Greek and Italian communities, once quite large. A sizable Russian immigrant community has also sprung up in recent years. The per capita Korean American population of Bergen County, 6.3% by

2664-646: The Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company of Carl Laemmle . On April 30, 1912, Laemmle brought together Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company , Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company, William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company , David Horsley of Nestor Film Company , and Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company , to merge their companies with Independent Moving Pictures and create Universal Film Manufacturing Company, with Laemmle assuming

2736-670: The West Coast could work independently of Edison's control, in part due to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals –which was headquartered in San Francisco and covered most of Southern California –being well known for not enforcing patents claims. In nearby Little Ferry on July 9, 1937, a major fire broke out in a 20th Century-Fox storage facility containing hazardous extremely flammable nitrate film reels. Television and film in New Jersey remains an important industry. Since 2000,

2808-409: The average family size was 2.88. In the borough the age distribution of the population shows 17.5% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.1 males. The median income for a household in

2880-526: The aviators Blanche Scott and Robert G. Fowler . Among those who appeared in Champion films were John G. Adolfi , Irving Cummings , Jeanie Macpherson . Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee is a borough at the eastern border of Bergen County , in the U.S. state of New Jersey , situated along the Hudson River atop The Palisades . As of the 2020 United States census , the borough's population

2952-460: The borough was $ 58,161, and the median income for a family was $ 72,140. Males had a median income of $ 54,730 versus $ 41,783 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 37,899. About 5.7% of families and 7.9% of the population were below the poverty line , including 10.9% of those under age 18 and 7.9% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2000 Census, 17.18% of Fort Lee's residents identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, which

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3024-480: The borough. The population density was 13,910.9 per square mile (5,371.0/km ). There were 17,818 housing units at an average density of 7,012.7 per square mile (2,707.6/km ). The racial makeup was 53.49% (18,905) White , 2.75% (973) Black or African American , 0.14% (50) Native American , 38.44% (13,587) Asian , 0.02% (7) Pacific Islander , 3.08% (1,090) from other races , and 2.07% (733) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.97% (3,877) of

3096-489: 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 the close of the Triassic period by the intrusion of molten magma upward into sandstone . The molten material cooled and solidified before reaching

3168-404: The coffee, bingsu (shaved ice), and pastries , but also as communal gathering places. Fort Lee is governed under the borough form of New Jersey municipal government . The borough is one of 218 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government. The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the six-member borough council , with all positions elected at-large on

3240-476: The creation of Fort Lee, Ridgefield Township became defunct and was dissolved as of March 29, 1904. The Fort Lee Police Department was formed under borough ordinance on August 9, 1904, and originally consisted of six marshals. The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast , where, at one time, Fort Lee was the motion picture capital of America. The industry got its start in

3312-474: 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 the rebellion in the wake of the rebels' defeat in

3384-466: 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 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

3456-418: The experiment and falsifying the results, the story itself being a marketing ploy. An identical experiment conducted by Henry Link showed no increase in cola or popcorn sales. The additional claim that the small cinema handled 45,699 visitors in six weeks has led people to believe that Vicary actually did not conduct his experiment at all. A small number of Korean immigrants have resided the area as early as

3528-433: The first European to record the area in 1609. In 1756 Stephen Bourdette acquired 400 acres of land which included modern-day Fort Lee. Originally known as Fort Constitution, Fort Lee was named for General Charles Lee after George Washington and his troops had camped at Mount Constitution overlooking Burdett's Landing , in defense of New York City. It was during Washington's retreat in November 1776 (beginning along

3600-461: 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 the first European map of the New World, made by Gerardus Mercator in 1541 based on

3672-404: 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,

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3744-544: The highest of any municipality in New Jersey for all places with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry. In the 2010 Census, 23.5% of residents (8,318 individuals) identified themselves as being of Korean ancestry, 7.5% (2,653) as Chinese and 3.7% (1,302) as Japanese. Companies based in Fort Lee include WINIA Electronics America, the American Bank Note Company and Cross River Bank . The 21,500-square-foot (2,000 m ) Barrymore Film Center ,

3816-554: The investigators of Thomas Alva Edison , always looking for the "pirates" who escaped the rigid conditions posed by the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), the monopoly of the sector that it imposed, between the other, to use only the technical material (film cameras, film, etc.) that was to be provided exclusively by the trust. To circumvent the MPPC, the independents - including Dintenfass - distributed their films through

3888-484: 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 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 2024 , the mayor of Fort Lee is Democrat Mark Sokolich , whose term of office ends December 31, 2027. Members of

3960-411: The memory of comfort women , tens of thousands of women and girls, many Korean, who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II . In May 2012, borough officials in neighboring Palisades Park rejected requests by two diplomatic delegations from Japan to remove such a monument from a public park, a brass plaque on a block of stone, dedicated in 2010; days later,

4032-517: The offshoot businesses that sprang up to service the film studios, for nearly two decades Fort Lee experienced unrivaled prosperity. However, just as the development of Fort Lee production facilities was gaining strength, Nestor Studios of Bayonne, New Jersey , built the first studio in Hollywood in 1911. Nestor Studios, owned by David and William Horsley, later merged with Universal Studios; and William Horsley's other company, Hollywood Film Laboratory,

4104-409: The population. There were 16,544 households, out of which 22.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.7% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.2% were non-families. 39.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.14 and

4176-441: The population. Korean Americans accounted for 23.5% of the 2010 population, or 8,306 people. Of the 16,371 households, 21.8% had children under the age of 18; 45.6% were married couples living together; 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present and 42.8% were non-families. Of all households, 38.4% were made up of individuals and 17.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

4248-528: The role of president. Dintenfass later founded the Vim Comedy Company (1915) In its four years of activity, Champion produced more than two hundred films. It specialized initially in westerns and historical reconstructions of military episodes of the American Civil War and American Revolution . Later, he produced numerous drama films, documentaries and some movies related to famous people, such as

4320-564: 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 the Americans , wrote of a park established at the Palisades by

4392-432: 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

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4464-554: The state at the end of the 19th century with the construction of Thomas Edison 's " Black Maria ", the first motion picture studio , in West Orange, New Jersey . New Jersey offered land at costs considerably less than New York City, and the cities and towns along the Hudson River and the Palisades benefited greatly as a result of the phenomenal growth of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century. A large number of early films were shot in Fort Lee. Filmmaking began attracting both capital and an innovative workforce, and when

4536-415: 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

4608-439: The summer. The festival also tours similar dates in Hackensack . Since the mid-1980s, Fort Lee Koreatown has become a Korean dining destination. Fort Lee's Korean food has been described by local food writers as being better than in Koreatown, Manhattan . Korean Chinese cuisine is now also available in Koreatown, as is misugaru . Korean cafés have become a major cultural element within Fort Lee's Koreatown, not only for

4680-416: 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 the formation of the Hudson Palisades, Central Atlantic magmatic province , 200 million years ago ranks second in severity of

4752-491: The term subliminal advertising and formed the Subliminal Projection Company based on a six-week test. Vicary claimed that during the presentation of the movie Picnic he used a tachistoscope to project the words "Drink Coca-Cola " and "Hungry? Eat popcorn" for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals. Vicary asserted that during the test, sales of popcorn and Coke in that New Jersey theater increased 57.8% and 18.1% respectively. In 1962, Vicary admitted to lying about

4824-435: The turn of the 20th century it became the birthplace of the American film industry . In 1931, the borough became the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge , which crosses the Hudson River and connects to the borough of Manhattan in New York City . Fort Lee's population and housing density has increased considerably since the 1960s and 1970s with the construction of highrise apartment buildings. According to

4896-422: The upper level on the George Washington Bridge were reduced from three to one from September 9, 2013, to September 13, 2013. Three members of the Christie administration were convicted on federal conspiracy charges for their roles in the lane closures. One of the reasons suggested for these actions was to punish Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich , a Democrat , for not supporting the Republican Chris Christie in

4968-424: Was $ 72,341 (with a margin of error of +/− $ 4,502) and the median family income was $ 86,489 (+/− $ 11,977). Males had a median income of $ 66,015 (+/− $ 3,526) versus $ 55,511 (+/− $ 3,404) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 44,996 (+/− $ 2,903). About 5.5% of families and 7.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over. As of

5040-584: Was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.89. Same-sex couples headed 127 households in 2010, an increase from the 65 counted in 2000. 17.0% of the population were under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 21.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44.7 years. For every 100 females, the population had 86.9 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 83.8 males. The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income

5112-415: Was 40,191, an increase of 4,846 (+13.7%) from the 2010 census count of 35,345, which in turn reflected a decline of 116 (−0.3%) from the 35,461 counted in the 2000 census . Along with other communities in Bergen County, it is one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnic Korean enclaves outside of Korea . Fort Lee is named for the site of an American Revolutionary War military encampment . At

5184-429: Was the fifth highest in the United States and third highest of any municipality in New Jersey; behind neighboring Palisades Park (36.38%) and Leonia (17.24%) – for all places with 1,000 or more residents identifying their ancestry. In the same census, 5.56% of Fort Lee's residents identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry, and 6.09% of Fort Lee's residents identified themselves as being of Japanese ancestry,

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