Content deleted Content added
Citation bot (talk | contribs) Added date. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2024 | #UCB_Category 533/882 |
add / update cat(s) for boroughs in New Jersey |
||
Line 124:
Paramus became one of the [[truck farming]] areas that helped New Jersey earn its nickname as the "Garden State".<ref>Satterthwaite, Ann. ''Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequence'', Yale University Press, 2001, p. 256</ref> By 1940, Paramus' population was just 4,000, with no town center and 94 retail establishments.<ref>Going Shopping, p. 256.</ref> Although the opening of the [[George Washington Bridge]] in 1931 and the widening of [[New Jersey Route 17|Route 17]] and [[New Jersey Route 4|Route 4]] (which intersect in southern Paramus), made the area accessible to millions, "it was not until the 1950s that massive development hit this section of northern New Jersey".<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/>
During the 1950s and 1960s, Paramus, lacking any master plan until 1969, was redeveloped into two shopping corridors when its farmers and outside developers saw that shopping malls were more lucrative than produce farming.<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> "It was a developer's dream: flat cleared land adjacent to major arterials and accessible to a growing suburban population and the country's largest city – with no planning restrictions".<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> New York had a state sales tax, but New Jersey had none, so with the opening of Manhattan department stores in the [[Bergen Town Center|Bergen Mall]] (1957), the [[Garden State Plaza]] (1957) and [[Alexander's]] (1961), Paramus became the "first stop outside New York City for shopping".<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257">Going Shopping, p. 257</ref>
From 1948 to 1958, the population of Paramus nearly quadrupled, from 6,000 to 23,000, while the number of retail establishments tripled from 111 to 319, and annual retail sales increased twenty-fold in nominal dollars, from $5.5 million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|5.5|1948|fmt=c|r=1}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) to $112 million (equal to ${{Inflation|US|.112|1958|fmt=c|r=1}} billion in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/> By the 1980s, when the population had increased slightly over 1960s levels, retail sales had climbed to $1 billion.<ref name="Going Shopping p. 257"/>
Line 220:
The Paramus Borough Code forbids the performance of any "worldly employment" on Sunday, with exceptions for charity, and the sale of newspapers, medicinal drugs, meals, prepared food and cigarettes, among a limited numbers of exceptions. Even work performed inside one's own home is prohibited on Sundays.<ref name=BoroughCode/> In spite of its six-day shopping week, Paramus consistently has the most retail sales of any ZIP Code in the United States.<ref name=shopping>[http://www.globest.com/retail/advisor/1_54/advisor/16788-1.html Paramus 07652] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517172031/http://www.globest.com/retail/advisor/1_54/advisor/16788-1.html |date=May 17, 2008 }}, GlobeSt. Retail, October 3, 2005.</ref>
More than 63% of Bergen County voters rejected a referendum on the ballot in 1993 that would have repealed the county's blue laws, though the Paramus restrictions would have remained in place.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/04/nyregion/1993-elections-ballots-measures-new-brooms-sweep-power-recall-term-limits-well.html "The 1993 Elections: Ballots Measures; New Brooms Sweep In Power of Recall and Term Limits as Well as Candidates"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307074517/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/04/nyregion/1993-elections-ballots-measures-new-brooms-sweep-power-recall-term-limits-well.html |date=March 7, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 4, 1993. Accessed December 25, 2011. "Residents of Bergen County decided that they wanted to keep the state's only countywide blue laws, which prohibit most shopping on Sunday. Voters rejected the effort to repeal the laws by 63 percent to 37 percent, with 99 percent of the county's precincts reporting."</ref> An unsuccessful 2010 proposal by [[Governor of New Jersey]] [[Chris Christie]] would have ended the state's blue laws, now only enforced in Bergen County, with the governor citing industry estimates that the $1.1 billion in added retail revenue on Sundays would generate an additional $65 million in sales taxes for the state.<ref>Gartland, Michael. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/031710_Christies_blue_law_repeal_proposal_criticized.html&page=all "Christie's blue law repeal proposal criticized"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', March 17, 2010. Accessed June 29, 2011. "Macy's declined to comment, referring questions to the New Jersey Retail Merchants Association, which supports lifting the blue laws. The association said that Sunday hours would generate $1.1 billion a year in extra business for Bergen County retailers, along with $65 million in state sales tax revenues."</ref>
In November 2012, Governor [[Chris Christie]] issued an executive order temporarily suspending the blue laws in both Bergen County and Paramus due to the effects of [[Hurricane Sandy]], a decision that was upheld despite a court challenge by the Borough of Paramus.<ref>Verdon, Joan. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/178121571_Judge_sides_with_govenor__county_over_blue_laws.html "Judge sides with county executive over Bergen blue laws"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214146/http://www.northjersey.com/news/178121571_Judge_sides_with_govenor__county_over_blue_laws.html |date=October 4, 2013 }}, ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', November 9, 2012. Accessed November 19, 2012. "Paramus must set aside its blue laws this Sunday due to the unprecedented damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, a Bergen County Superior Court Judge ruled today."</ref> The blue law suspension was in effect on Sunday, November 11, but was back in effect the following Sunday.<ref>Sullivan, S.P. [http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2012/11/bergen_county_execs_office_makes_clear_blue_laws_back_this_weekend.html "Bergen County exec makes clear: Blue laws are back this weekend"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120034052/http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2012/11/bergen_county_execs_office_makes_clear_blue_laws_back_this_weekend.html |date=November 20, 2012 }}, ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', November 16, 2012. Accessed November 19, 2012.</ref>
Line 341:
[[File:2021-06-06 14 33 26 View north along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) from the overpass for Bergen County Route 80 (East Ridgewood Avenue-Oradell Avenue) in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|The [[Garden State Parkway]] in Paramus]]
[[File:2020-09-08 13 13 29 View north along New Jersey State Route 17 at the exit for New Jersey State Route 4 (Fort Lee, New York, Paterson) in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|The intersection of [[New Jersey Route 17|Route 17]] and [[New Jersey Route 4|Route 4]] in the commercial hub of [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen County]]]]
===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2015|7}}, the borough had a total of {{convert|121.92|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|90.93|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|18.86|mi}} by Bergen County, {{convert|7.72|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], and {{convert|4.41|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Turnpike Authority]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Bergen.pdf Bergen County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717070714/https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Bergen.pdf |date=July 17, 2018 }}, [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], July 2015. Accessed April 28, 2016.</ref>
Line 483 ⟶ 484:
[[Category:1922 establishments in New Jersey]]
[[Category:Borough form of New Jersey government]]
[[Category:Boroughs in New Jersey]]
[[Category:Boroughs in Bergen County, New Jersey]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1922]]
| |||