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Alpine


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07620 (Alpine Weather Forecast, NJ)

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Alpine was formed on April 8, 1903, from portions of Harrington Township.

Rio Vista is an upscale neighborhood in the southern section of Alpine. Rio Vista is home to Devil's Tower, a stone clock tower that is claimed to be haunted, that was originally built by sugar baron Manuel Rionda (1854–1943) in order to allow his wife to see New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. The legend has it that when his wife saw him with another woman, she committed suicide by jumping off the tower. After becoming upset over his wife's death, Rionda stopped all work on the tower. In reality Harriet Rionda died of natural causes in 1922 and was interred nearby for approximately 20 years; her coffin was moved to Brookside Cemetery, Englewood. The estate was later sub-divided into 197 housing sites consisting of miles of roadway, infrastructure, and related facilities in the mid-1980s.

The New Jersey Section of the Palisades Interstate Park runs the length of Alpine along the top of the New Jersey Palisades and along the Hudson River. The Alpine Boat Basin serves as both a public picnic area and small marina for private boats. The area is a scenic riverfront picnic area and boat basin, plus beach for car-top boat launches (canoe and kayak), with fishing, access to hiking trails and Henry Hudson Drive, restrooms, water, vending machines, and public phones. Alpine Pavilion, an open-air stone picnic pavilion built in 1934 by the Civil Works Administration and available for rental is located here, as well as the historic Blackledge-Kearney House, said to be the site where Lord Cornwallis and his troops landed on November 20, 1776, in their pursuit of the Continental Army following the rout of George Washington's forces in the Battle of New York.

 

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Borough of Alpine
100 Church Street
Alpine, New Jersey 07620
201-784-2900

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Construction Official

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Fire - 911
(Non-Emergency)

First Aid - 911
(Non-Emergency)

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Library -

Office of Emergency Management (OEM)

Police - 911
(Non-emergency) 201-768-0881

Public Works 201-768-6942

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Tax Collector's Office 201-784-2900 ext. 20

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Alpine Public School - Grades K - 8
500 Hillside Avenue
Alpine, New Jersey 07620
201-768-8255

Tenafly High School - Grades 9 - 12
19 Columbus Drive
Tenafly, NJ 07670
201-816-6600

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Old Alpine Trail
Palisades Interstate Park
Alpine Approach Road
Alpine, NJ 07620

Here began the Old Alpine Trail used by the British troops
who first appeared in the State of New Jersey on the stormy
night of Nov. 18, 1776 in the unsuccessful effort of
Cornwallis to intercept Washington on his way to Trenton.



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