Dolan, Jim. "Understaffing at Harrison's fire department", WABC-TV, April 1, 2013. "Harrison, N.J. (WABC) – There is growing anger from several fire departments in New Jersey about the understaffing of a neighboring fire department in Hudson County."
Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 276, J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed July 26, 2013. "Harrison in 1850 contained a population of 1,345; in 1860, 2,556; and in 1870, 2,789." Population for 1870 of 2,789 is incorrect and appears to be duplicated from data for that year for Greenville.
Bergen County New Jersey MunicipalitiesArchived August 23, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Dutch Door Genealogy. Accessed December 15, 2011. "Lodi Township was formed March 1, 1826 from area taken from New Barbadoes Township. In 1840 a part of its area was transferred to Harrison Township in Hudson County."
Ashford, Michael. "'One I won't forget'"Archived January 13, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The Emporia Gazette, December 22, 2006. Accessed August 26, 2015. "Thirty-eight years ago, in 1968, Kevin Gilmore joined the football program at McCook Junior College in McCook, Neb. A native of Harrison, N.J., Gilmore was recruited by several Division I schools out of high school, but his grades weren't quite good enough, so he made the more-than 1,500-mile trek from New Jersey to Nebraska to play football and improve his academic standing at McCook."
Register Dublin's Bio, Hudson County Register of Deeds and Mortgages. Accessed October 13, 2024.
About Us, Hudson County Register of Deeds & Mortgages. Accessed January 31, 2025. "The Hudson County Register is elected by the people of Hudson County for a five-year term. The Office of the Register is responsible for the recording of all formal written documents which affect real property throughout the 12 municipalities that make up the County."
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Home, Hudson County Sheriff. Accessed January 31, 2025
Dell'Apa, Frank. "New Era Dawning In Dallas"Archived October 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Boston Globe, August 13, 2005. Accessed October 11, 2007. "When Dave D'Errico was growing up in the '60s, he played on the hardscrabble soccer fields of Harrison, N.J., then for the US national team and in the North American Soccer League."
Staff. "Harrison picks ex-principal Fife to succeed McDonough as mayor"Archived August 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Jersey Journal, February 26, 2014. Accessed August 2, 2014. "Former Harrison High School Principal James A. Fife was selected by the Harrison Town Council yesterday to succeed Raymond J. McDonough as mayor. McDonough, who had been mayor since 1995, suffered a massive heart attack in his Town Hall office Feb. 12 and died."
Marcus, Samantha. "These are the towns with the highest property taxes in each of N.J.’s 21 counties"Archived November 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, April 22, 2019. Accessed November 5, 2019. "The average property tax bill in New Jersey was $8,767 last year. But there can be big swings from town to town and county to county.... The average property tax bill in Harrison was $11,109 in 2018, the highest in Hudson County."
What We Do: History, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed March 1, 2022. "In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the Abbott v. Burke case that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts. According to the Court, aging, unsafe and overcrowded buildings prevented children from receiving the "thorough and efficient" education required under the New Jersey Constitution.... Full funding for approved projects was authorized for the 31 special-needs districts, known as 'Abbott Districts'."
Aloysius Michael SullivanArchived February 1, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The NYSCA Literary Map of New York State. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Aloysius Michael Sullivan was born in Harrison, New Jersey, in 1896."
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Jones, Richard G. "As Newark Neighbor Moves Toward Rebirth, Some Pains Are Felt"Archived June 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, February 21, 2007. Accessed December 15, 2011. "It was a sobering descent from the days when Harrison, which juts into the Passaic River just across from Newark, was the city where the likes of R.C.A., Otis Elevator and Thomas A. Edison helped forge the town's motto: 'Beehive of Industry.'"
Mifflin, Lawrie. "Doing a Star Turn for the Home Team, at Last"Archived September 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, August 18, 1996. Accessed September 11, 2013. "Giants Stadium is a short trip up the turnpike from Old Bridge, where Mr. Ramos lives with his wife, Amy – a former North Carolina State University soccer player like her husband – and their 16-month-old son, Alex. And it's just a few miles from where he grew up, in Harrison and Kearny, towns that have been soccer hotbeds for generations."
Cotter, Kelly Jane. "Playing His Picks"Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Asbury Park Press, August 10, 2008. Accessed February 13, 2011. "On weekdays Pinfield gets up at the unrockin hour of 4 a.m. at his home in Harrison and is in the RXP studio by 520 a.m."
Holroyd, Steve. "The Year in American Soccer - 1925"Archived November 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Providence also acquired wing forward Tommy Florie prior to the season. Born in Harrison, New Jersey, Florie had played three games with the hometown ASL club in 1922 before earning stardom in local semipro leagues."
"Governor – Hudson County"(PDF). New Jersey Department of Elections. January 29, 2014. Archived(PDF) from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
McGee, David. "'The Cry of Anguished Protest, The First of Many Wrought From Me'"Archived March 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, TheBluegrassSpecial.com, April 2011. Accessed September 4, 2011. "Beverly Kenney was born in Harrison, New Jersey, on January 29, 1932, the oldest of nine children (four boys, four girls, and a brother, Charles, who died in infancy; the Kenney parents divorced after Beverly was on her own, and two of her brothers are actually from her mother's second marriage) in a blue collar Catholic family."
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Staff. "Kearny EMS out, MONOC in at Harrison"Archived August 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Observer Online, January 8, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2014. "Kearny Emergency Management Services (EMS) has vacated the space and, as of New Year's Day, it's been replaced by Monmouth- Ocean Hospital Service Corp. (MONOC) EMS, based in Wall Township Mayor Ray McDonough and the Harrison Town Council voted Dec. 19 to accept the bid submitted by MONOC to provide emergency medical service coverage – basic life support provided by EMTs – for Harrison and East Newark."
Staff. "Obituaries: Bernard Epstein College Mathematics Professor"Archived February 1, 2018, at the Wayback MachineThe Washington Post, April 4, 2005. Accessed January 31, 2008. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Bernard Epstein, 84, a physicist on the Manhattan Project who was a visiting professor of mathematics at George Mason University and the University of Maryland, died March 30 at Summerville Assisted Living in Potomac. He had Alzheimer's disease.Dr. Epstein was born in Harrison, N.J."
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Jones, Richard G. "As Newark Neighbor Moves Toward Rebirth, Some Pains Are Felt"Archived June 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, February 21, 2007. Accessed December 15, 2011. "It was a sobering descent from the days when Harrison, which juts into the Passaic River just across from Newark, was the city where the likes of R.C.A., Otis Elevator and Thomas A. Edison helped forge the town's motto: 'Beehive of Industry.'"
Bergen County New Jersey MunicipalitiesArchived August 23, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Dutch Door Genealogy. Accessed December 15, 2011. "Lodi Township was formed March 1, 1826 from area taken from New Barbadoes Township. In 1840 a part of its area was transferred to Harrison Township in Hudson County."
Staff. "Harrison picks ex-principal Fife to succeed McDonough as mayor"Archived August 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Jersey Journal, February 26, 2014. Accessed August 2, 2014. "Former Harrison High School Principal James A. Fife was selected by the Harrison Town Council yesterday to succeed Raymond J. McDonough as mayor. McDonough, who had been mayor since 1995, suffered a massive heart attack in his Town Hall office Feb. 12 and died."
Marcus, Samantha. "These are the towns with the highest property taxes in each of N.J.’s 21 counties"Archived November 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, April 22, 2019. Accessed November 5, 2019. "The average property tax bill in New Jersey was $8,767 last year. But there can be big swings from town to town and county to county.... The average property tax bill in Harrison was $11,109 in 2018, the highest in Hudson County."
"Governor – Hudson County"(PDF). New Jersey Department of Elections. January 29, 2014. Archived(PDF) from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
Staff. "Kearny EMS out, MONOC in at Harrison"Archived August 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Observer Online, January 8, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2014. "Kearny Emergency Management Services (EMS) has vacated the space and, as of New Year's Day, it's been replaced by Monmouth- Ocean Hospital Service Corp. (MONOC) EMS, based in Wall Township Mayor Ray McDonough and the Harrison Town Council voted Dec. 19 to accept the bid submitted by MONOC to provide emergency medical service coverage – basic life support provided by EMTs – for Harrison and East Newark."
Dell'Apa, Frank. "New Era Dawning In Dallas"Archived October 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Boston Globe, August 13, 2005. Accessed October 11, 2007. "When Dave D'Errico was growing up in the '60s, he played on the hardscrabble soccer fields of Harrison, N.J., then for the US national team and in the North American Soccer League."
Staff. "Obituaries: Bernard Epstein College Mathematics Professor"Archived February 1, 2018, at the Wayback MachineThe Washington Post, April 4, 2005. Accessed January 31, 2008. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Bernard Epstein, 84, a physicist on the Manhattan Project who was a visiting professor of mathematics at George Mason University and the University of Maryland, died March 30 at Summerville Assisted Living in Potomac. He had Alzheimer's disease.Dr. Epstein was born in Harrison, N.J."
Holroyd, Steve. "The Year in American Soccer - 1925"Archived November 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Providence also acquired wing forward Tommy Florie prior to the season. Born in Harrison, New Jersey, Florie had played three games with the hometown ASL club in 1922 before earning stardom in local semipro leagues."
Ashford, Michael. "'One I won't forget'"Archived January 13, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The Emporia Gazette, December 22, 2006. Accessed August 26, 2015. "Thirty-eight years ago, in 1968, Kevin Gilmore joined the football program at McCook Junior College in McCook, Neb. A native of Harrison, N.J., Gilmore was recruited by several Division I schools out of high school, but his grades weren't quite good enough, so he made the more-than 1,500-mile trek from New Jersey to Nebraska to play football and improve his academic standing at McCook."
McGee, David. "'The Cry of Anguished Protest, The First of Many Wrought From Me'"Archived March 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, TheBluegrassSpecial.com, April 2011. Accessed September 4, 2011. "Beverly Kenney was born in Harrison, New Jersey, on January 29, 1932, the oldest of nine children (four boys, four girls, and a brother, Charles, who died in infancy; the Kenney parents divorced after Beverly was on her own, and two of her brothers are actually from her mother's second marriage) in a blue collar Catholic family."
Cotter, Kelly Jane. "Playing His Picks"Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Asbury Park Press, August 10, 2008. Accessed February 13, 2011. "On weekdays Pinfield gets up at the unrockin hour of 4 a.m. at his home in Harrison and is in the RXP studio by 520 a.m."
Mifflin, Lawrie. "Doing a Star Turn for the Home Team, at Last"Archived September 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, August 18, 1996. Accessed September 11, 2013. "Giants Stadium is a short trip up the turnpike from Old Bridge, where Mr. Ramos lives with his wife, Amy – a former North Carolina State University soccer player like her husband – and their 16-month-old son, Alex. And it's just a few miles from where he grew up, in Harrison and Kearny, towns that have been soccer hotbeds for generations."
Aloysius Michael SullivanArchived February 1, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The NYSCA Literary Map of New York State. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Aloysius Michael Sullivan was born in Harrison, New Jersey, in 1896."
"Portuguese Club President Sworn in at Club", YourHarrison.com, February 23, 2022. Accessed May 22, 2022. "The Centro Romeu Cascaes Portuguese American Club President, Delfim Sarabando was sworn in to take over the seat of current Harrison Third Ward Councilmember Francisco Nascimento, a fellow Portuguese-American. Councilman Nascimento retired and stopped attending Mayor & Council meetings several months ago."
