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Coytesville is an unincorporated community and neighborhood located largely within Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Geography
Coytesville lies atop the Hudson Palisades north of GWB Plaza in Fort Lee, with a small portion straddling the southern border of Englewood Cliffs. It is loosely defined as being west Palisades Interstate Parkway and north of its connector road, New Jersey Route 67. It is east of the Linwood section of Fort Lee and New Jersey Route 4 near the municipilty of Englewood.

Founding
Joseph Coyte who emigrated here from Devonshire, England in the mid 1840s and acquired the land in the area between the Hudson and Hackensack River, settling at what would become Coytesville. He started early speculative subdivision of lots laid out by Coyte in 1851. A general store was established, and included a post that remained in the building until 1938. At the time the area was part of Hackensack Township.

Woodland Cemetery
Woodland Cemetery, also known as the Coytesville Cemetery, is found on land originally donated by Coyte. It is where he after his death in 1887, some family members, and many other early homeowners are buried. Several Civil War soldiers are interred there. as is the first Mayor of Fort Lee, John C. Abbott.

Television
In 1926, the radio station WRNY relocated its transmitter from the Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan) to Coytesville In 1928, it made one of the earliest television broadcasts.

Champion Studios
Fort Lee is home to America's first motion picture industry. A large number of early films, many silent, were shot at studios and on location in and around the town. With the first constructed in 1909, there were 11 major studios in Fort Lee by 1918.

Transportation
U.S. Route 9W as Sylvan Avenue and County Route 505 as Hudson Terrace run through the neighborhood Palisades Interstate Parkway and its connector road, in part designated [[New Jersey Route 67), define its eastern and southern borders, while New Jersey Route 4 lies to the west. GWB Plaza, and the George Washington Bridge are south of Coytesville. It is loosely defined as being west.

Notable residents

 * Maurice Barrymore, actor, lived in the Coytesville from ~1890 until his death in 1905.
 * Pop Hart (1868–1933), an early 20th century American painter and watercolorist.
 * George Price, cartoonist (190 – 1995)
 * James Van Fleet (1892 – 1992) was a United States Army General was born in Coytesville.