Talk:Glen Ridge, New Jersey

Gas lamps
The statement that there are ony 3,000 gas lamps in the US is baseless. There are over 2,000 in Boston's neighborhoods alone. Does anyone who lives there have a count of the number of gas lamps? Or a published reference to a useful count? Thanks! Rikahlberg 19:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

New York, Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad
My source (http://njmidland.railfan.net/history.htm) says the railroad was the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway, not the New York, Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad.

CCC
I'll see if we can get someone to write up the Civic Conference Committee.

Notable residents
What about Joe Dubuque?

He has climbed about as high as one can in the wrestling world, as an NCAA champion (considering there is no professional level).

See http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/dubuque_joe00.html for a list of his accomplishments...

I realize that he was not a true resident, but as he attended 4 years at the high school and represented the town on the state level in high school wrestling, I feel he deserves a place in GR history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.161.98.117 (talk) 09:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Would Wes Miles, of Ra Ra Riot, be considered notable? I mean I figure if Ezra Koenig is considered notable so would he, though I'm not quite sure where the line of notability is drawn. --71.225.53.136 (talk) 01:50, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

History section
in the history section, it mentions 'wooded fields'. how can a field be wooded? aren't fields inherently without trees?Tlantanu (talk) 16:02, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Rape at Glen Ridge High School
Should the notable rape of a mentally challenged student at Glen Ridge High School be mentioned in the Glen Ridge High School article in the education section. I mean it was pretty famous back in the early 90s, and I know they made a movie about it with Ally Sheedy. To this day it's still what I think of when I hear about Glen Ridge. On the other hand it's more specific to the school than the town (it is mentioned on the high school's article). However it was also notable because of how the town reacted (many sided with the football players). Givememoney17 (talk) 02:41, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It has been shown in popular culture a lot. (Law & Order SVU episode made after it.) I would agree with putting it in the school article, if not giving its own article. Mitch 32(We the people in order to form a more perfect union.) 03:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I have actually been thinking of giving it it's own article, but I always thought it would hav eone by now if people thought it deserved one. Also I have yet to think what it's title would be (the victim's name is not known, and articles about it do not collectively refer to it specifically by any one name). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Givememoney17 (talk • contribs) 03:37, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I am struggling for a name. Best I can come up with is Glen Ridge High School rape incident, 199x (the x means the year in question.) Mitch 32(We the people in order to form a more perfect union.) 03:50, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Glen Ridge Rape previously redirected to the page of the author whowrote the book about the incident, so I have made that the article. It's not much, but I can add some more sources and info, and maybe a timeline later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Givememoney17 (talk • contribs) 04:04, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

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Carl A. Bergmanson
Is he notable, he is up for deletion: Carl Bergmanson (born August 16, 1960) is a conservative Democrat and was the mayor of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, a borough 10 miles west of New York City, from 2004 - 2007. Bergmanson is a vocal critic of the Democratic Party establishment in New Jersey. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey in both the 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election and 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial election. He was born on August 16, 1960. In 2008, Bergmanson led an unsuccessful campaign to recall Governor Jon Corzine, the first effort to recall a governor in New Jersey history. In February 2009, Bergmanson announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2009 race for Governor of New Jersey. Bergmanson, who ran on a platform of fiscal discipline, governmental reform, and removing the tolls on the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike and the Atlantic City Expressway, finished second in the balloting for the Democratic nomination with 9% of the votes cast behind incumbent governor Jon Corzine, who won re-nomination with 77% of the vote. Bergmanson continues to criticize the Democratic Party for being financially irresponsible. He has stated that he believes only a fiscally conservative Democrat could potentially beat sitting Governor Chris Christie. On February 8, 2013, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination in the 2013 gubernatorial election. He withdrew from the Democratic primary on April 22.

Incorrect history of the name "Glen Ridge"
I am not going to make this change myself (at least not now), as I'm working from personal knowledge and have thus far been able to find a reliable independent source (haven't looked for very long yet, so maybe I'll find one), but I'm super-confident that the claimed history of the name "Glen Ridge" is incorrect. So, if someone already knows of such a source, or feels like taking it upon themselves to look for one, I think they should go for it. Specifics follow:

Right now, the page says that "The borough's name comes from the ridge formed by Toney's Brook." I assert this is incorrect, for several reasons:


 * 1) It makes no sense - "the ridge formed by $($a$)$ brook"?
 * 2) It has a citation, but upon review of the source, it does not say "the ridge formed by Toney's Brook". It says "Ridge in glen formed by Toney's Brook". This is closer to what I strongly believe to be the truth, though not exactly. In any case, though, it at least is not obviously nonsensical, as the Wikipedia claim is.
 * 3) The remaining problem with the "ridge in glen formed by Toney's Brook" thing is that (at least according to my personal knowledge) the ridge in question is not in the glen in question. There may be a small part of it in the glen, but I strongly believe the "Ridge" in "Glen Ridge" refers to the fact that Glen Ridge is (at least for the most part) uphill from Bloomfield (Bloomfield being the town from which Glen Ridge split off in the late 19th Century), and large parts of it are on a sort of plateau (before the hill starts going up again, into Montclair on the other side of GR). I believe that basically the whole area that is now known as Glen Ridge was informally called "the Ridge" before the Bloomfield/GR split.

In summary, I believe the name comes from "the glen formed by Toney's Brook" (in and maybe around GR, this glen is known as "The Glen"), plus the ridge that much of the town lies upon (known in the area, at least previously, as "The Ridge").

Like I said, I haven't yet found a reliable source online that matches up with this, and I'm not making this change due to me working from personal knowledge (I was born and raised in GR). But I think someone should at least change the nonsensical claim which is not backed up by the cited source to what the cited source actually says. On top of that, I'm pretty sure the cited source is not entirely accurate, so if anyone knows of or finds a source that agrees with me, I think the small remaining difference between the source's claim and my claim should be taken into account on the page.

Rwv37 (talk) 22:53, 27 September 2022 (UTC)