Bernardsville, New Jersey

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Bernardsville, New Jersey
settlement_type = Borough
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mapsize = 250x200px
map_caption = Map of Bernardsville in Somerset County. Inset: Location of Somerset County in New Jersey.


mapsize1 = 250x200px
map_caption1 = Census Bureau map of Bernardsville, New Jersey

subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = New Jersey
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Somerset
government_footnotes =
government_type = Borough (New Jersey)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Lee C. Honecker
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leader_name1 =
established_title = Incorporated
established_date = April 29, 1924

unit_pref = Imperial
area_footnotes =
area_magnitude =
area_total_km2 = 33.5
area_land_km2 = 33.5
area_water_km2 = 0.0
area_total_sq_mi = 12.9
area_land_sq_mi = 12.9
area_water_sq_mi = 0.0

population_as_of = 2006
population_footnotes =
population_total = 7688
population_density_km2 = 219.3
population_density_sq_mi = 568.1

timezone = Eastern (EST)
utc_offset = -5
timezone_DST = EDT
utc_offset_DST = -4
elevation_footnotes = [Gnis|885159|Borough of Bernardsville, Geographic Names Information System, accessed January 4, 2008.]
elevation_m = 234
elevation_ft = 768
latd = 40 |latm = 43 |lats = 50 |latNS = N
longd = 74 |longm = 35 |longs = 33 |longEW = W

postal_code_type = ZIP code
postal_code = 07924
area_code = 908
blank_name = FIPS code
blank_info = 34-05590GR|2 [ [http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/webrepts/commoncodes/ccc_nj.html A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey] , Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed July 14, 2008.]
blank1_name = GNIS feature ID
blank1_info = 0885159GR|3
website = http://www.bernardsvilleboro.org
footnotes = USCensusPop
1930 = 3336
1940 = 3405
1950 = 3956
1960 = 5515
1970 = 6652
1980 = 6715
1990 = 6597
2000 = 7345
estimate= 7688
estyear=2006
estref= [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&geo_id=16000US3457300&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US34%7C16000US3457300&_street=&_county=bernardsville&_cityTown=bernardsville&_state=04000US34&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=population_0&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry= Census data for Bernardsville borough] , United States Census Bureau. Accessed September 19, 2007.]
footnote=Population 1930 - 1990. [ [http://www.wnjpin.net/OneStopCareerCenter/LaborMarketInformation/lmi01/poptrd6.htm Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1930 - 1990] , Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network. Accessed March 1, 2007.]

Bernardsville (pronEng|ˈbɚnɚdzˌvɪl) is a Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,345.

Bernardsville was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, from portions of Bernards Township, based on the results of a referendum held on April 29, 1924."The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 222.]

It has been said that the horse head scene from "The Godfather" took place originally on Hardscrabble Road.Fact|date=February 2007

Geography

Bernardsville is located at coor dms|40|43|8|N|74|34|40|W|city (40.718800, -74.577675)GR|1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 12.9 square miles (33.5 km²), of which, 12.9 square miles (33.5 km²) of it is land and 0.08% is water.

Demographics

As of the censusGR|2 of 2000, there were 7,345 people, 2,723 households, and 2,050 families residing in the borough. The population density was 568.1 people per square mile (219.3/km²). There were 2,807 housing units at an average density of 217.1/sq mi (83.8/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 93.94% White, 0.25% African American, 0.15% Native American, 2.64% Asian, 1.55% from other races, and 1.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.98% of the population.

There were 2,723 households out of which 35.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.2% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.7% were non-families. 21.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.12.

In the borough the population was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 28.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.3 males.

The median income for a household in the borough was $104,162, and the median income for a family was $126,601. Males had a median income of $91,842 versus $50,732 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $69,854. About 1.6% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.3% of those under age 18 and 2.5% of those age 65 or over.

Government

Local government

Bernardsville is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government. The government consists of a Mayor and a six-member Borough Council, with all positions elected at large in partisan elections. A Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The Borough Council consists of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year. ["2005 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book", Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, April 2005, p. 77.]

Bernardsville is governed by a Mayor and a six-member Borough Council. The Mayor of Bernardsville is Lee C. Honecker. Members of the Borough Council are Council President Joseph Rossi, Jr., Denis J. Dooley, II, Charlotte Foster, Ed McDowell, John McCrossan and Kevin Sooy. [ [http://www.bernardsvilleboro.org/pages01/myr_pers.html Bernardsville Borough Mayor and Council] , Bernardsville Borough. Accessed February 28, 2008.]

Federal, state and county representation

Bernardsville is in the Seventh Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 16th Legislative District. [ [http://www.lwvnj.org/pubs/CG06.pdf 2006 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government] , New Jersey League of Women Voters, p. 54. Accessed August 30, 2006.]

Education

Public school students in grades K - 12 attend the schools of the Somerset Hills Regional School District, a regional school district serving students from Bernardsville, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone, along with students from Bedminster who are sent to the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. [ [http://www.co.somerset.nj.us/schools/districts.htm Somerset County School Districts-Sending/Receiving/Regional] , Somerset County Superintendent of Schools. Accessed April 27, 2008.] The three schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [ [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3400009 Data for the Somerset Hills School District] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed (February 28, 2008.] ) are [http://www.shsd.org/NewSite/bedwellSchool-/k-4index.htm Bedwell Elementary School] (K - 4, 692 students), [http://www.shsd.org/NewSite/middleSchool/5-8index.htm Bernardsville Middle School] (5 - 8, 554 students) and Bernards High School (9 - 12, 759 students), and are all located in Bernardsville.

History

Bernardsville was originally a section of Bernards Township known as Vealtown. In 1840, Vealtown became Bernardsville, named after Sir Francis Bernard, Colonial governor of New Jersey from 1758 to 1760. Nestled in the northern most part of Somerset County, just 12 miles south of Morristown, this rustic community sits in some of the last vestiges of the Great Eastern Forest.

After the Civil War, many wealthy and prominent New Yorkers moved into the area, first as summer visitors, then as permanent residents of the Bernardsville Mountain.

The Gladstone Branch railroad line was built through Bernardsville in 1872 and played an important role in the borough's development. Bernardsville did not become an independent municipality until 1924, when it split from Bernards Township.

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of Bernardsville include:

*Brooke Astor (1902-2007), lived here during here marriage to John Dryden Kuser. [Miller, Judith. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE2DA1231F934A25752C1A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 "Old Money, New Needs"] , "The New York Times", November 17, 1991. Accessed November 4, 2007. "Eventually Kuser fell in love with another woman and left his wife. She moved from Bernardsville, N.J., to New York and took up a career writing features and book reviews, and eventually became an editor at House & Garden."]
*Roger Bart (1962-), actor. [Gardner, Amanda. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE6DD1E3CF930A35755C0A9679C8B63 "THEATER; Tony Awards' New Jersey Ties"] , "The New York Times", July 23, 2008.]
*Forrest F. Dryden (1864-1932), President of Prudential Insurance Company.
*John F. Dryden (1839-1911), Founder of Prudential Insurance Company and U.S. Senator.
*Ernest Duncan (1916-1990), mathematician. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7D61230F93BA15752C1A966958260 "Dr. Ernest Duncan, 74, Mathematics Professor"] , "The New York Times", November 28, 1990. Accessed November 4, 2007. "Dr. Ernest R. Duncan, professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of several mathematics textbooks, died on Sunday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. He was 74 years old and lived in Bernardsville, N.J. He died of leukemia, his family said."]
*Marc Ecko (1972-), fashion designer and entrepreneur. [Rockland, Kate. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E4DD1138F931A25755C0A9639C8B63 "BY THE WAY; A Monument to Sagging"] , "The New York Times", June 12, 2006. Accessed January 3, 2008.]
*Millicent Fenwick (1910-1992), U.S. Congresswoman, United States representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000078 Millicent Hammond Fenwick Congressional biography] , accessed April 8, 2007. "was a resident of Bernardsville, N.J., until her death there on September 16, 1992."]
*Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1847-1918), architect. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03EFDB1F39F934A35756C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all Streetscapes/Henry Janeway Hardenbergh; An Architect Who Left an Indelible Imprint] , "The New York Times" by Christopher Gray, May 7, 2000. "He alternated living in New York and New Jersey, at first at 121 West 73rd Street, in Jersey City and Bernardsville, and in a big town house of his own design at 12 East 56th Street."]
*Andrew McCarthy (1962-), actor. [ [http://www.tv.com/andrew-mccarthy/person/25690/biography.html Andrew McCarthy bio] , TV.com, accessed April 12, 2007. "At 16, he moved to Bernardsville, where he attended a prep school called the Pingry School."]
*Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), former first lady. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E2DA1331F934A3575BC0A962958260 If You're Thinking of Living In/Peapack and Gladstone; Fox-Hunting and High-Priced Homes] , "The New York Times", August 7, 1994. "She does have a story about Aristotle Onassis, who rented a home in neighboring Bernardsville with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."]
*Donald Roebling (1908-1959), inventor of the amphtrack.
*John A. Roebling II, financier.Roan, Richard W. [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/ref/Roebling/Roebling.html "Roebling's Amphibian: The Origin Of The Assault Amphibian"] , accessed April 12, 2007. "By the end of World War I, John A. Roebling II had concentrated his efforts on banking and the management of the Roebling family fortune, leaving the leadership of the John A. Roebling's Sons plants to other family members. John and his wife, Margaret, built a sprawling estate called the Boulderwood Mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey, only thirty miles west of John's office complex in New York City.... Donald Roebling was born in New York City on 15 November 1908. Young Roebling, strong-willed, temperamental, and overweight, spent his childhood in the luxury of his parents' Bernardsville, New Jersey, mansion."]
*Meryl Streep (1949-), actress. [ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000528264 AFI Award: Meryl Streep] , "The Hollywood Reporter" by Wolf Schneider, June 10, 2004. "A New Jersey girl made good, Streep grew up middle-class and mousy-haired in Summit and Bernardsville, suburbs in which those around her would remember Streep as a bossy child."]
*Mike Tyson (1966-) and Robin Givens (1964-). [ [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-chronology_x.htm Mike Tyson Chronology] , "USA Today", June 12, 2005. "Oct. 2, 1988 — Police go to Tyson's Bernardsville, N.J., home after he hurls furniture out the window and forces Givens and her mother to flee the house."]

References

External links

* [http://www.bernardsvilleboro.org/pages01/main.html Bernardsville official web site]
* [http://www.shsd.org/ Somerset Hills School District]
*NJReportCard|35|4815|0|Somerset Hills School District
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3400009 Data for the Somerset Hills School District] , National Center for Education Statistics
* [http://www.historicalsocietyofsomersethills.org/ The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills]
* [http://www.bernardsvilleboro.org/pages01/history.html Brief History of Bernardsville]