Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Midtown Manhattan.

[20] In 2012, Forbes ranked Alpine as America's most expensive ZIP Code with a median home price of $4.25 million.

[21] It was ranked 4th in the magazine's 2010 listing of "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes", with a median home price of $3,814,885.

[23] Alpine was tied with Greenwich for first in both 2006 and 2007 on the ABC News list of most expensive ZIP Codes, with a median home sale price of $3.4 million.

[26] Based on data from the 2006–2010 American Community Survey, the borough had a per-capita income of $107,604, ranked second in the state.

[28] Alpine was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1903, from portions of Harrington Township.

[29][30] The borough's name came from the wife of journalist Charles Nordhoff, who found the setting reminiscent of the Swiss Alps.

[1][2] The borough borders Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Norwood, Rockleigh and Tenafly in Bergen County.

[46][47] As of 2024[update], the mayor of Alpine is Democrat Paul H. Tomasko, whose term of office ends December 31, 2026.

[3][48][49][50][51][52] In August 2022, David Kupferschmid was appointed to fill the seat expiring in December 2023 that had been held by Laurence A. Shadek until he resigned from office the previous month.

[53] In February 2021 the borough council appointed Scott Bosworth from a list of three candidates nominated by the Republican municipal committee to fill the council seat expiring in December 2022 that had been held by John Halbreich until he resigned from office earlier that month.

[52] Joan Ornstein was appointed by the borough council in February 2012 to fill the vacant seat of her husband Steve, who had died the previous month after being sworn in for a three-year term of office.

[58] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 5th congressional district is represented by Josh Gottheimer (D, Wyckoff).

As of 2025[update], the county executive is James J. Tedesco III (D, Paramus), whose four-year term of office ends December 31, 2026.

[63] Bergen County's Commissioners are: Thomas J. Sullivan Jr. (D, Montvale, 2025),[64] Chair Germaine M. Ortiz (D, Emerson, 2025),[65] Joan Voss (D, Fort Lee, 2026),[66] Vice Chair Mary J. Amoroso (D, Mahwah, 2025),[67] Rafael Marte (D, Bergenfield, 2026),[68] Steven A. Tanelli (D, North Arlington, 2027)[69] and Tracy Silna Zur (D, Franklin Lakes, 2027).

[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77] Bergen County's constitutional officials are: Clerk John S. Hogan (D, Northvale, 2026),[78][79] Sheriff Anthony Cureton (D, Englewood, 2027)[80][81] and Surrogate Michael R. Dressler (D, Cresskill, 2026).

[85] Among the borough's 2010 Census population, 73.1% (vs. 57.1% in Bergen County) were registered to vote, including 94.5% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide).

Alpine is home to the tower and laboratory built by Edwin Howard Armstrong after RCA evicted him from the Empire State Building.

It was originally designed by Charles Rollinson Lamb for 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 estate was later sub-divided into 197 housing sites consisting of miles of roadway, infrastructure, and related facilities in the mid-1980s.

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.