allmusic guide, Allmusic. "Tony Mottola... attended high school alongside ill-fated jazz saxophonist Herbie Haymer and future bandleader George Paxton..."
allmusic guide. "Tony Mottola was born April 18, 1918 in Kearny, NJ. He began playing guitar at the age of nine, and attended high school alongside ill-fated jazz saxophonist Herbie Haymer and future bandleader George Paxton; after graduating, Mottola toured with George Hall's orchestra, making his recorded debut on the group's rendition of 'Shine.'"
Meek, James Gordon; and Siemaszko, Corky. "'Soupnazi' hacker Albert Gonzalez went from nerdy past to life of sex, guns and drugs", New York Daily News, August 19, 2009. Accessed October 12, 2012. "After graduation, Gonzalez moved north to Manhattan and lived on the East Side for three months in 2000 before setting up shop in Kearny, N.J., records show. It was while living there in an anonymous garden apartment with mostly senior citizens as neighbors that Gonzalez was busted for hacking in 2003."
Holahan, Catherine. "No Way Back;My Chemical Romance is too big for New Jersey's basements"Archived August 30, 2013, at archive.today, The Record, October 12, 2005. Accessed August 29, 2013. "Part of the reason Toro might feel so nostalgic for Kearny and Belleville, where he and his band mates grew up, is they have been home for a total of about four weeks since releasing their major label debut, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in June 2004."
Krasner, Barbara. Kearny, p. 10. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. ISBN0-7385-0403-3. Accessed July 7, 2011. "Constructed of stone and bricks imported from Holland, the mansion stood as a source of pride until 1924. When the mansion was about to be torn down, a development company offered to deed a section of the 60 acres to any historical society that would pay for the upkeep.... no one was able to do so and this monument was destroyed."
Cappetta, Gary Michael. Bodyslams!: Memoirs of a Wrestling Pitchman, p. xvii. ECW Press, 2006. ISBN9781550227093. Accessed October 2, 2015. "As a child, my family lived every summer in the shore community of Seaside Park. The month I graduated from Kearny High School in Northern New Jersey, my family moved to Ocean County, where my father established a lucrative amusement business on the local boardwalk."
Biography, Congressman Albio Sires. Accessed January 3, 2019. "Congressman Sires resides in West New York with his wife, Adrienne."
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Biography, Congressman Bill Pascrell. Accessed January 3, 2019. "A native son of Paterson, N.J., Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. has built a life of public service upon the principles he learned while growing up on the south side of the Silk City."
Vallance, Tom. "Obituary: Buzz Kulik", The Independent, January 29, 1999. Accessed September 1, 2014. "Born Seymour Kulik in Kearney [sic], New Jersey, in 1922, he served in the army during the Second World War, then worked in the mailroom of the large advertising agency J. Walter Thompson."
Mayor's Office, Town of Kearny. Accessed February 7, 2024. "Mayor Carol Jean Doyle made history and was elected as Mayor of the Town of Kearny on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Mayor Carol Jean Doyle is the first woman mayor since 1938 and the first woman ever elected by the voters of Kearny."
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Schuyler Avenue Redevelopment PlanArchived April 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Town of Kearny. Accessed January 31, 2018. "The Town can be divided into three distinct geographic areas: Uplands, Kearny Meadows, South Kearny Peninsula."
Kearny Urban Enterprise Zone, Kearny, New Jersey. Accessed March 31, 2020. "Since its establishment in 1985, by agreement and annual contract between the Mayor and Council and the State of New Jersey, the Kearny UEZ has invested over twenty-seven million dollars of sales and use taxes collected by qualified retailers in the KUEZ."
Staff. "Al Hartley, 81; Illustrated 'Archie' Comic Strips", Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2003. Accessed September 1, 2014. "Al Hartley, 81, who spent nearly three decades illustrating the 'Archie' comic strips and also drew for Marvel Comics, died Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla.... Hartley was a native of Kearny, N.J."
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Western Electric Company Kearny Works, Kearny, New Jersey. [graphic]., Library Company of Philadelphia. Accessed March 27, 2024. "Aerial view of the Western Electric Kearny Works factory, Distribution Avenue, Kearny, NJ along the Passaic River looking west/northwest.... Probably taken September 1926."
Francis, Shawn. "Welcome to New Jersey, home of the real football giants"Archived December 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Major League Soccer, July 21, 2011. Accessed February 25, 2011. "Among the notables who called Kearny home are Archie Stark (232 goals in 205 matches for Bethlehem Steel), John Harkes (former U.S. national-team captain), Tony Meola (former U.S. captain and keeper) Ted Gillen (former MLS and U.S. player) and Billy Gonsalves (a U.S. veteran of two World Cups)."
Wildstein, David. "Paul McCurrie, elected Assemblyman from Hudson in 1961, dies at 91", New Jersey Globe, May 17, 2020. Accessed November 30, 2022. "The Kearny seat continued to be rotated – John McLaughlin in 1965, Norman Doyle in 1967, Joseph Healey in 1969, and David Wallace in 1971 – until John F. Cali, the secretary to the warden of the Hudson County Jail, won the seat in 1973."
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'Bros, The Greatest Beer Run in History, and Smile - All Filmed In Jersey", New Jersey Stage, September 28, 2022. Accessed January 11, 2023. "Studio interiors were completed at Palisade Stages in Kearny, this being first project to shoot in the facility since it opened in early 2021.... Other scenes were completed at a townhouse on Bentley Avenue in Jersey City and at Jersey Oil in Kearny, a house in Montclair, and at Lewis Morris Park in Morristown."
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Staff. "George E. Paxton", The Miami Herald, April 21, 1989. Accessed May 3, 2011. "He was a native of Kearny, N.J., and learned his trade at the Juilliard School of Music, where he mastered many musical instruments."
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Sullivan, Jeff. "Troubled waters for US; Quad team controversy had to be settled by arbitrator", The Boston Globe, August 26, 2000. Accessed November 30, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "On Aug. 9, the US Rowing Association submitted the names of Gehman, a native of Wolfeboro, N.H.; Kelly Salchow of Cincinnati; Laurel Korholz of La Jolla, Calif.; and Jennifer Dore-Terhaar of Kearny, N.J., to the USOC as the women's quad team based on a promise apparently made by US Rowing coach Igor Grinko."
Zeitlinger, Ron. "Second film studio opens in Kearny", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, February 21, 2022. Accessed January 11, 2023. "10 Basin Studios has opened at the Kearny Point Business Center, the second soundstage at the South Kearny peninsula between the Hackensack and Passaic rivers. Early last year Palisades Stages opened in the building next door."
West, Teri. "Kearny moves to acquire Scandinavian church for new public arts center", The Jersey Journal, April 16, 2023. Accessed May 9, 2023. "The town of Kearny is finalizing a deal to buy the First Lutheran Church property at 61-71 Oakwood Ave, sending another Hudson County religious building toward a secular fate. The $1.46 million deal, which Kearny says will provide the space for a new arts and community center, means First Lutheran joins the ranks of a handful of other church buildings sold in recent years that are being repurposed or redeveloped."
Zeitlinger, Ron. "Hudson election roundup: Doyle makes history in Kearny; Hoboken incumbents triumph", The Jersey Journal, November 7, 2023. Accessed February 7, 2024. "Carol Jean Doyle, the longtime councilwoman who ran independently after the appointed mayor was given the Democratic party line, has defeated two rivals to become the first woman elected mayor in Kearny's long history. Doyle, 76, defeated Mayor Peter Santana — who was appointed in July when Mayor Al Santos was appointed a state superior court judge — and Sydney Ferreira in a close race to serve the remaining two years of Santos' term."
Duger, Rose. "De Castro selected to fill vacant council seat in Kearny", The Jersey Journal, February 20, 2015. Accessed July 7, 2016. "Kearny's Democratic County Committee has named Marytrine De Castro to fill the vacant First Ward seat on the Town Council.... De Castro will occupy Arce's First Ward seat until after November's general election, when a permanent replacement will be selected to complete the final two years of Arce's unexpired term."
"Hall of Fame Class of 2021 Spotlight: Max Marston", New Jersey State Golf Association, March 12, 2021. Accessed November 30, 2022. "His 1934 effort came on the heels of finishing as runner-up in the 1933 U.S. Amateur, where he lost in the final match to Kearny, N.J. native George Dunlap, 6 and 5."
Hernandez, Raymond. "World Cup Hits Home In Soccer Town, U.S.A."The New York Times June 26, 1994. Accessed September 12, 2013. "In a nation that has not yet shared the world's enthusiasm for soccer, Kearny (pronounced CAR-nee) is certainly an anomaly. The town has two local soccer historians. On Kearny Avenue, the main strip, a sign proclaims: 'Welcome to Kearny. Soccer Town, U.S.A.'"
via Associated Press. "Kearny, N.J., Plant Is Sold", The New York Times, May 22, 1984. Accessed September 12, 2013. "A.T.& T. Technologies Inc. today announced the sale of the Western Electric Company plant here to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation for use as an industrial park designed to employ more than 4,000 people.... In January 1983, Western Electric said it would phase out the 59-year-old Kearny works by mid-1985."
Hanley, Robert. "Kearny Plant Is Dying, Along With An Old Era", The New York Times, January 29, 1983. Accessed September 12, 2013. "At its robust best just after World War II, Western Electric's Kearny Works employed 24,000 people and boasted that it was the busiest manufacturing plant in the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's empire.... Only about 4,000 workers remain.... The plant's annual payroll is $128 million, money that is spent in thousands of small businesses in the dozens of communities where the workers live."
Kleinfeld, N. R. "Western Electric Plans Shutdown of Jersey Plant", The New York Times, January 28, 1983. Accessed January 11, 2023. "'There'll be a lot of economic ripples spreading from this,' said Kearny's Mayor, Henry J. Hill, who retired three years ago as the plant's manufacturing manager after 41 years with Western Electric."
Caldwell, Dave. "Ice Cream, Onion Rings and Tony Soprano", The New York Times, August 26, 2007. Accessed September 1, 2014. "The owner of the Kearny building used for Satriale's pork store intends to sell pieces of the facade when he has it razed for a condo development."
Galant, Debra. "Jersey; Montclair's Connection Has Its Price", The New York Times, September 29, 2002. Accessed July 7, 2011. "On Sept. 20, New Jersey Transit officially terminated service at Mr. Wilson's beloved Benson Street stop, as well as at the Rowe Street stop in Bloomfield and the Arlington stop in Kearny. Those closings were part of the price of progress."
Bondy, Filip. "Soccer; Harkes, Accent and All, Back for Tourney", The New York Times, June 6, 1993. Accessed August 29, 2013. "John Harkes, the pride of Kearny, N.J., rejoined the United States national soccer team this week to resuscitate his old mates in the U.S. Cup '93 opener today against Brazil in New Haven."
La Gorce, Tammy. "Bellowing Like Iron Maiden, but Very, Very Sensitive", The New York Times, November 7, 2004. Accessed July 5, 2018. "Which is more what Mr. Way – along with his bassist and brother, Mikey; Ray Toro, a guitarist from Belleville; Frank Iero, a guitarist from Kearny; and the Chicago-area drummer Bob Bryer – is going for..."
Wallace, William N. "Rowing; U.S. Heavyweights Win Gold at the Wire", The New York Times, September 19, 1994. Accessed October 27, 2011. "The favored United States crew, stroked by Jeff Klepacki, a Rutgers alumnus from Kearny, N.J., faltered in the final 500 meters after leading by almost a full boat length and won by six-tenths of a second over a surprising crew from the Netherlands."
Mifflin, Lawrie. "Doing a Star Turn for the Home Team, at Last", The New York Times, August 18, 1996. Accessed February 25, 2012. "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."
"Giant Star Compares Grid Loops"Archived July 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Hartford Courant, December 18, 1955. Accessed March 29, 2011. "Alex Webster returned to his Kearny, N.J. home today, but before he left the former star Montreal Alouette halfback made it clear he 'wants to jump back to Canada' rather than play again for the New York Giants in 1956."
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Anderson, Will. "Bob Stanley", Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed November 13, 2019. "'The Steamer' – Bob Stanley – was 2 years old when his family packed up and moved from East Kidder Street in Portland to Kearny, New Jersey, Stanley's mother's hometown."
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Kearny Public Schools District Bylaw 0110 - Identification, Kearny School District. Accessed May 2, 2022. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Kearny School District. Composition: The Kearny School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Town of Kearny."
Urban Enterprise Zone Tax Questions and Answers, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, May 2009. Accessed October 28, 2019. "The Urban Enterprise Zone Program (UEZ) was enacted in 1983. It authorized the designation of ten zones by the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Authority: Camden, Newark, Bridgeton, Trenton, Plainfield, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Kearny, Orange and Millville/Vineland (joint zone)."
Ownie Carroll, The Baseball Cube. Accessed August 19, 2007.
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Wright, Chase. "Acclaimed organist to appear at St. Paul's on the Green", The Hour, April 24, 2010. Accessed September 1, 2014. "A native of Kearny, N.J., Lippincott is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and Westminster Choir College, where she studied under notable organist and educator Alexander McCurdy."
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Staff. "Historic firehouse under restoration", The Observer , November 24, 2011. Accessed November 13, 2019. "The structure is the oldest standing firehouse in town: a small two-story brick building on Halstead St., just west of Kearny Ave. It dates to 1895 and was originally the headquarters for Highland Hose Co. No. 4, back in the days when a clanging bell was the only way to alert firefighters to an emergency, and when rigs pulled by galloping horses raced through the streets to answer a call."
Canessa Jr., Kevin. "Council selects tri-lingual Santana for Second Ward opening", The Observer Online, February 16, 2017. Accessed May 4, 2017. "Davis Ave. resident Peter Santana was appointed Second Ward Councilman at a special council meeting Monday, Feb. 6, taking the seat once occupied by the late Councilman Jonathan Giordano, who died suddenly last month."
Canessa, Kevin. "Kearny native competing for Top Chef", The Observer, December 15, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2019. "Karen Akunowicz remembers making an apron in the seventh-grade at Lincoln School in home economics class back in 1991.... When she left Kearny after graduating Kearny High School in 1996 for the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, it was her plan to be a social worker.... And despite all of the fame she's gained from being on the show, she hasn't forgotten her Kearny roots one bit."
"Obituaries: May 20, 2020", The Observer, May 20, 2020. Accessed May 30, 2020. "Born and raised in Kearny, on Wilkinson Terrace, Paul graduated from Kearny High School in 1947."
Canessa, Kevin A., Jr. "Kearny native named chief of Minneapolis Police Department", The Observer, November 6, 2022. Accessed March 5, 2023. "On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Minneapolis City Council approved Mayor Jacob Frey's nomination of Kearny native Brian O'Hara, Kearny HS Class of 1997, to serve as police chief. O'Hara joins the city after serving as deputy mayor of Newark, in charge of overseeing strategic public safety initiatives, and before that, having served as Public Safety Director in Newark."
Farnsworth, Ed. "Behind the footage: The opening game of the USMNT's 1916 Scandinavian tour", Society for American Soccer History, September 4, 2020. Accessed November 30, 2022. "Then, Kearny, New Jersey's James Ford (Jersey AC), playing at outside right, 'by brilliant individual work, took the ball up in the right way' before centering to center forward and fellow Kearny native John Heminsley (Newark Scottish Americans)."
Holahan, Catherine. "No Way Back;My Chemical Romance is too big for New Jersey's basements"Archived August 30, 2013, at archive.today, The Record, October 12, 2005. Accessed August 29, 2013. "Part of the reason Toro might feel so nostalgic for Kearny and Belleville, where he and his band mates grew up, is they have been home for a total of about four weeks since releasing their major label debut, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, in June 2004."
Prentice, Claire. "The Scots of Kearny, New Jersey – home of The Sopranos", The Herald, March 22, 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 7, 2013. Accessed November 13, 2019. "The story of the Scots in Kearny goes back to the 1860s, when two Scottish companies, Paisley thread mill Clark's and Kirkcaldy linoleum company Nairn's, opened factories in the area. They wanted to avoid paying import taxes on goods shipped from Scotland and Kearny's tax breaks and location, at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers, made it an ideal choice. Word got out back in Scotland that skilled workers were needed. By the 1960s, there were 21,000 Scots living in Kearny (as of the 2000 United States Census, the town's population was approximately 40,000)."
Schuyler Avenue Redevelopment PlanArchived April 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Town of Kearny. Accessed January 31, 2018. "The Town can be divided into three distinct geographic areas: Uplands, Kearny Meadows, South Kearny Peninsula."
Idec, Keith. "Tomasz Adamek impressive in victory", The Record, March 25, 2012, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 28, 2012. Accessed January 31, 2018. "Tomasz Adamek methodically made a successful comeback Saturday night from his lopsided loss to Vitali Klitschko.... Adamek, a native of Poland who resides in Kearny, improved to 45–2."
Francis, Shawn. "Welcome to New Jersey, home of the real football giants"Archived December 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Major League Soccer, July 21, 2011. Accessed February 25, 2011. "Among the notables who called Kearny home are Archie Stark (232 goals in 205 matches for Bethlehem Steel), John Harkes (former U.S. national-team captain), Tony Meola (former U.S. captain and keeper) Ted Gillen (former MLS and U.S. player) and Billy Gonsalves (a U.S. veteran of two World Cups)."
"Giant Star Compares Grid Loops"Archived July 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Hartford Courant, December 18, 1955. Accessed March 29, 2011. "Alex Webster returned to his Kearny, N.J. home today, but before he left the former star Montreal Alouette halfback made it clear he 'wants to jump back to Canada' rather than play again for the New York Giants in 1956."
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"Joe Kyrillos (R)", The Wall Street Journal. Accessed September 1, 2014. "Joe Kyrillos was born in Kearney, N.J., and raised in Middletown, where he still resides."
