Elmwood Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is a bedroom suburb located 14 miles (23 km) from New York City.

[4] Residents of the Dundee Lake area voted on April 18, 1916, to secede from Saddle River Township to form the Borough of East Paterson.

[3] In 1917, residents of the Rosemont section of Saddle River Township voted to be annexed to East Paterson.

[4] Elmwood Park, being located in Bergen County, has strict blue laws, which require most businesses to be closed on Sunday.

A trip clockwise along the border from the Northwest corner runs from the middle of the Passaic River ENE along Willow Street, SSE along Cyril Avenue, ENE along New Jersey Route 4 (Broadway), SSE along the Bergen County Line, WSW along the extension of Rosario Court from Saddle Brook, continuing WSW along Dye Ave. and between Garwood Court North and Kipp Avenue, and N along the middle of the Passaic River.

[27][28][29] Unincorporated communities, localities and place names within the borough include Cherry Hill, Dundee Lake, Passaic Junction and Rosemont.

[41][42] As of 2024[update], the mayor of Elmwood Park is Republican Robert Colletti, whose term of office expires December 31, 2027.

[51] In May 2019, Daniel Golabek was selected from three candidates nominated by the Democratic municipal committee to take the mayoral seat after Frank Caramanga resigned in the wake of accusations that he had completed voter ballots.

[52] In June 2019, Francesco Fasolo was appointed to fill the seat expiring in December 2019 that became vacant when Daniel Golabek took office as mayor in April.

[55] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 9th congressional district is represented by Nellie Pou (D, North Haledon)[56] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027) and Andy Kim (Moorestown, term ends 2031).

The 221st district's seat in the State Senate was vacated upon Nellie Pou's swearing into the U.S. House of Representatives.

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

[59] Bergen County's Commissioners are: Thomas J. Sullivan Jr. (D, Montvale, 2025),[60] Chair Germaine M. Ortiz (D, Emerson, 2025),[61] Joan Voss (D, Fort Lee, 2026),[62] Vice Chair Mary J. Amoroso (D, Mahwah, 2025),[63] Rafael Marte (D, Bergenfield, 2026),[64] Steven A. Tanelli (D, North Arlington, 2027)[65] and Tracy Silna Zur (D, Franklin Lakes, 2027).

[66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73] Bergen County's constitutional officials are: Clerk John S. Hogan (D, Northvale, 2026),[74][75] Sheriff Anthony Cureton (D, Englewood, 2027)[76][77] and Surrogate Michael R. Dressler (D, Cresskill, 2026).

[81] Among the borough's 2010 Census population, 54.0% (vs. 57.1% in Bergen County) were registered to vote, including 68.2% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 73.7% countywide).

[97] The Elmwood Park Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Elmwood Park is served by NJ Transit buses 160 and 161 to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, with local service on the 702, 712, 758 and 770 routes.

Van Houten who constructed the house c. 1782 and Herman Hillman who purchased it in 1898, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983.

Artesian Fields County Park- a Bergen County-owned park located on Boulevard and Gilbert Street.

The park consists of athletic fields, a walking path, a lake beach, a small zoo, and a playground.

[121] White supremacist groups had been meeting at a local branch of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics since the 1990s.

At this time, he states, "As soon as we found out, we took action," referring to the revelation that some members of the Junior Order chapter were white power activists.