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HISTORY
Demarest, only 2.5 square miles, a small affluent, friendly bedroom community just 8 miles from the G.W.B., nestled around the Tenafly Brook Duck Pond and the 19th century railroad station. It is bordered on the north by Closter, the south by Cresskill, the west by Haworth and the east by Alpine. Most new residents are professionals or business executives who like the small town charm, peaceful atmosphere, fine schools, and the simple commute to NYC.
Demarest was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1903, from portions of Harrington Township and Palisades Township. The borough was named for the Demarest family and for the Demarest train station, which had in turn been named for Ralph S. Demarest, who was a director of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey that built the station and represented the area in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate in the mid-19th century
Education
The Demarest Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through eighth grade. As of the 2014–15 school year, the district and its three schools had an enrollment of 997 students and 63.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.6:1. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[) are County Road School[96] with 123 Kindergarten and first grade students, Luther Lee Emerson School with an enrollment of 233 students in grades 2 - 4 and Demarest Middle School[98] which serves 322 students in grades 5 through 8.
Students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest in Demarest, together with students from Closter and Haworth. The high school is part of the Northern Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.
Transportation
Demarest is served by Rockland Coaches routes 14ET and 20/20T, with a stop by the Duck Pond on County Route 501 which provides service to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and the Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York, a common shopping destination for many residents. Saddle River Tours / Ameribus offers rush hour service on the 20 / 84 route to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station
GENERAL INFO
Population: 5,009
Distance to NYC: 18 miles
Population Density / Mile: 2,424
Median Age: 46.59
Number of Households: 1,640
Households with Children:
757
Median Household Income:
$151,467
City Hall: Demarest Borough Hall
Address: 118 Serpentine Road
Phone Number: 201-768-0167
Town Website: http://www.demarestnj.org/
Library Website:
http://www.bccls.org
Water Service:
Suez
Gas & Electric:
P.S.E.&G./Rockland Electric
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