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Fair Lawn

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Also known as Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Fair Lawn, NJ

borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

Key facts

Country
United States
State
New Jersey
County
Bergen
Incorporated
March 6, 1924
Named after
David Acker's estate, Fairlawn
Type
Faulkner Act (council–manager)
Body
Borough Council
Mayor
Gail Friedberg Rottenstrich ( D , acting mayor for term ending December 31, 2025)
Manager
Kurt Peluso
Municipal clerk
Nicholas Magarelli
Total
5.22 sq mi (13.53 km )
Land
5.14 sq mi (13.30 km )
Water
0.089 sq mi (0.23 km ) 1.53%
Rank
271st of 565 in state, 11th of 70 in county
Elevation
69 ft (21 m)
Estimate 2023
35,564
Density
6,801.8/sq mi (2,626.2/km )
Time zone
UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )

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Encyclopedic overview

Fair Lawn is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and a bedroom suburb located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of New York City. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 34,927, an increase of 2,470 (+7.6%) from the 2010 census count of 32,457, which in turn reflected an increase of 820 (+2.6%) from the 31,637 counted in the 2000 census.

Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, as "Fairlawn", from portions of Saddle River Township. The name was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker's estate home, that was built in 1865 and later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as "Fair Lawn" Borough.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fair Lawn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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