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Welcome to the Little Ferry Home page. The Little Ferry Home page provides as much information as possible on Little Ferry. Knowing Little Ferry’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Little Ferry’s Home page, you will also find Little Ferry’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Little Ferry has a population of 10761. 50.6% of Little Ferry’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.4 are female. 54.3% of Little Ferry is married and 39% own their own home. The Average Home price is $368,052, and the average rent is $1,408. Household median income in Little Ferry is $69,224, and the individual median income is $36,322. Little Ferry’s Ethnic is the following: White(58.8%), Hispanic(32.5%), Asian(25%), Other(8.9%), Multiple(3.7%), Black(3.5%), Pacific(0.1%).


Little Ferry was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on September 18, 1894, from portions of Lodi Township and New Barbadoes Township, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone.During the colonial era, the borough was the site of an important ferry crossing between the region's towns at Bergen and Hackensack, which was operated by rope on the site starting in 1659, continuing until 1826 when it was replaced by a bridge on the Bergen Turnpike.Gethsemane Cemetery, an African burial ground, was opened in 1860 and was used for interments until 1924.


The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. In the earlier 20th nearby Fort Lee on the Hudson Palisades was home to many film studios of America's first motion picture industry. On July 9, 1937, a major fire broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film storage facility in Little Ferry.


Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film industry laboratories, studios and vaults, although the precise causes were often unknown; in the Little Ferry fire, temperatures of 100 °F (38 °C) and insufficient venting were the proximate causes.Rosie's Diner (formerly the Farmland Diner) was used in the 1970s for the filming of Bounty paper towel commercials featuring Nancy Walker as Rosie the Waitress.New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Little Ferry 35th in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.


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