A refrigerated warehouse in Newark loses power for four hours on a Tuesday afternoon. Inside, plastic bins holding insulin destined for three states slowly warm from 4 degrees Celsius to 26 degrees. By the time power returns and technicians confirm the failure via wireless temperature sensors, 12,000 doses are worthless. They get destroyed. The warehouse's backup generator should have kicked in, but nobody had tested it in eighteen months. Five hundred patients in rural New J

For 116 years, every train running between Newark and New York City crossed the Hackensack River on a single swing span called the Portal Bridge. Built in 1910, the bridge had to physically rotate open whenever a boat needed to pass beneath it, then rotate back and lock into place before trains could cross again. That locking step failed about one out of every seven times. When it did, rail crews grabbed sledgehammers and beat the rails into position by hand while hundreds of

In March 2026, as New Jersey's roads thawed from another winter, NJDOT launched its annual pothole campaign, mobilizing crews across the state to fill the tens of thousands of cracks and divots that emerge each spring. The potholes are not random bad luck or careless maintenance. They are the predictable outcome of a cycle that repeats every year in every cold climate: water seeps into the road, freezes and expands, splits the asphalt, thaws and loosens the pieces, and leaves

Bergen County is trapped between two distinct flooding threats. From inland, heavy rains overwhelm local rivers like the Passaic, Hackensack, and Saddle Rivers, a problem made worse by increasingly paved inland ground that can no longer absorb the runoff. From the coast, a storm's low pressure and onshore winds drive a surge of seawater backward, pushing it up those same rivers. While most storms bring only one of these threats, the most dangerous storms bring both at once. E

A week of extreme heat and back-to-back storms hit New Jersey around the Fourth of July in 2026, pushing electricity demand to a 14-year peak of 10,446 megawatts and knocking out power to more than 380,000 PSE&G customers. Most got their lights back within days. The last two customers weren't restored until July 8, nearly a week after the trouble started. That gap, between the bulk of a system snapping back fast and a stubborn remainder taking days longer, is not an accident.

Sections (links) Planning and Land Acquisition The CSX Negotiation The Funding Situation Environmental Assessment What Would It Actually Look Like? What will it Cost? Who Owns It After It's Built? The Regional Picture The Rail Fantasy Six Towns, One Coalition What Comes Next The Northern Valley Greenway is a proposed 7.4-to-8-mile multi-use trail that would transform an abandoned CSX freight rail corridor into a linear park directly connecting six Bergen County boroughs and a

The dust has settled on the 2025 General Election, yielding results that offer a fascinating study in political contrast. At the state and county levels, voters turned out for hard-fought, high-stakes contests. Yet, here in Tenafly, our local municipal and school board races were marked by an almost complete absence of competition, forcing us to consider the state of civic engagement right at our doorstep. State and Legislative Takeaways The election cemented a major shift in

Paramedic and Military Veteran Targets Affordability, Public Service Reform, and Term Limits Marco Navarro, the Republican challenger running alongside Andrew Meehan in New Jersey's 37th Legislative District (LD 37) General Assembly race, is campaigning on a message of affordability and government accountability. A public service veteran, Navarro is focusing his platform on reforming emergency services, strengthening career education, and imposing term limits on long-serving

For New Jersey residents, the choice for governor isn't about Washington—it's about the staggering tax bill that lands on the kitchen table every quarter. The 2025 gubernatorial election, pitting Democrat Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill against Republican former State Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli , has ultimately boiled down to a single, local question: How do we make the Garden State affordable again? With the election just days away and the latest polls showing a razor-thin

Veteran and Educator Seeks to Address Affordability and Accountability in Trenton Andrew Meehan, a Republican challenger in New Jersey’s 37th Legislative District (LD 37) General Assembly race, has positioned himself as a community-rooted advocate focused on reversing what he describes as a decline in quality of life across the state. In an exclusive interview with TownSquare , Meehan shared his core values, detailed his policy goals, and outlined his approach to legislative

Incumbents and Newcomer Vie for Three Seats and Jocelyn Schwarz Details Strategy to Combat Rising Costs Tenafly, N.J. — Voters will face a technically uncontested election for the Tenafly Board of Education this November, with three candidates vying for three open three-year terms. While the outcome is predetermined, the election provides an opportunity to introduce the community to the individuals who will be steering the district's policy and budget for the next three yea

Assemblywoman Shama Haider (D-LD 37) is seeking re-election, campaigning on a platform driven by her life experience as an immigrant and her long history of local advocacy. Haider’s policy agenda balances specific, targeted legislative wins with a commitment to tackling New Jersey’s deepest systemic crises: housing and healthcare affordability. This profile, based on an exclusive interview with TownSquare , outlines the core of her platform. From Local Roots to State Assembl

Your vote decides what kind of community Tenafly becomes — start by registering today. Your vote singlehandedly alters the trajectory of local elections and government policy. Sounds ridiculous? Take Tenafly’s 2024 referendum, for example: it passed by just eight votes. Eight ballots decided whether our schools would receive millions in funding. Eight people changed the future of Tenafly education. You have that same power every November. Out of only a few thousand eligible v