One of the last remaining Sunday closing laws in the United States that covers selling electronics, clothing and furniture is found in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

The Bergen County legislature recently wanted to abolish them, but residents who live near Garden State Plaza objected.

Skylands | The New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands in Ringwood State Park, Passaic County, New Jersey | Passaic and Bergen County, New Jersey | Bergen Counties.

* Gateway Region, encompassing Middlesex County, Union County, Essex County, Hudson County, Bergen County, and Passaic County.

** The Record ( Bergen County ), a newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey

* Bergen County, New Jersey — southwest, water boundary only, across the Hudson River

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The historic Pulaski Skyway takes US 1 / 9 into Jersey City, and the route exits the freeway at Tonnele Circle to head north into Bergen County.

Passaic County was created on February 7, 1837, from portions of both Bergen County and Essex County.

It is bordered by the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay to the east ; Kill van Kull to the south ; Newark Bay and the Hackensack River or the Passaic River to the west ; its only land border is shared Bergen County to the north and west.

High school students from Englewood and all of Bergen County may also apply on a competitive basis to attend the public Bergen County Technical High Schools and Bergen County Academies, with the former located in Teterboro and Paramus and the latter located in Hackensack.

In addition, a student may attend the Bergen County Academies if accepted into the school, with the Indian Hills / Ramapo school district paying the tuition of the student.

Students also attend the countywide programs offered by the Bergen County Academies and Bergen County Technical High School.

In addition to both public and private schools, Ramsey 8th grade students have the option of applying to attend Bergen County Academies, a public school operated on a countywide basis which accepts students based on a competitive application process and was selected as one of the five Gold Medal schools in New Jersey by U. S. News & World Report and ranked 39th nationwide in 2011 by the magazine.

Other high school options include the various locations of the Bergen County Academies and Bergen County Technical Schools.

A substantial number of affluent Korean American professionals have settled in Bergen County, New Jersey since the early 2000s ( decade ) and have founded various academically and communally supportive organizations, including the Korean Parent Partnership Organization at the Bergen County Academies magnet high school and The Korean-American Association of New Jersey.

* Bergen County Academies

* Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

The Bergen County Academies ( BCA ) is a public magnet high school located in Hackensack, New Jersey that draws students from its surrounding county.

According to 2011 Newsweek statistics, Bergen County Academies students registered an average SAT score of 2100, the second highest of any U. S. high school ; overall, Newsweek ranked BCA 23rd nationally and second in New Jersey.

Bloomberg Businessweek cites Bergen County Academies as New Jersey's best high school.

Bergen County Academies Auditorium entrance

The Bergen County Academies is located on the John Grieco Campus of the Bergen County Technical Schools District in Hackensack.

Bergen County Academies was certified to offer the International Baccalaureate ( IB ) diploma in January 2004.

Bergen County Academies itself has no CEEB code.

The school itself also changed its name numerous times, from " Bergen County Regional Academies " to " Bergen Academies ", to " Bergen County Academy " and to the present " Bergen County Academies ".

* Art project in the public space of Bergen op Zoom, at Erasmuspc, international network for cities and culture

The high school was the 14th-ranked public high school in New Jersey ( third highest in Bergen County ) out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 18th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

For grades 9-12, public school students attend North Bergen High School in North Bergen, as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the North Bergen School District.

Some stations of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail feature public art exhibitions, including those at Exchange Place, Danforth Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive station.

Bergen Arts and Science Charter School, which opened in September 2006, serves public school students in the district, as well as those from Hackensack and Lodi.

Bergen and McCarthy are sometimes credited with " saving the world " because, on the night of October 30, 1938, when Orson Welles performed his War of the Worlds radio play hoax that panicked many listeners, most of the American public had instead tuned in to Bergen and McCarthy on another station and never heard Welles ' play.

Bergen died shortly after completing his scenes in the latter film, marking it as his final public appearance.

In May 2012, officials in Bergen County's borough of Palisades Park, New Jersey rejected requests by two diplomatic delegations from Japan to remove a small monument from a public park, a brass plaque on a block of stone, dedicated in 2010 to the memory of comfort women, thousands of women, many Korean, who were allegedly forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

With an eventual overall cost of approximately $ 2. 2 billion to complete its initial operating segments, the Hudson – Bergen Light Rail was one of the largest public works projects ever in New Jersey.

Siri Hustvedt attended public school in her hometown Northfield, Minnesota and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973.

The Pascack Valley Regional High School District is a regional public high school district encompassing students from four communities in the Pascack Valley region of Bergen County, New Jersey serving students in grades 9-12.

The school competes in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which consists of public and private schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Hudson County, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

Gaia Trafikk was the largest public transportation provider in Bergen and Os, Norway until it merged with HSD forming Tide.

The other two light rail systems in New Jersey Hudson Bergen Light Rail and River Line are built along freight railroad rights-of-way and public streets, and do not date back to Public Service days.

Some of her speaking engagements have included the keynote address " Islam, Justice, and Gender " at the 2008 international conference Understanding Conflicts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, held at Aarhus University, Denmark ; a paper titled “ Islam Beyond Patriarchy Through Gender Inclusive Qur ’ anic Analysis ” at the 2009 Musawah-Equality and Justice in the Family conference ; the Regional Conference on Advancing Gender Equality and Women ’ s Empowerment in Muslim Societies, hosted by United Nations Development Fund for Women ( UNIFEM ) and the International Centre for Islam and Pluralism ( ICIP ) in Jakarta, Indonesia, in March 2009 ; a workshop on " Sharia and Human Rights " at the University of Bergen, Norway in late November 2009 ; a public lecture titled " Muslim Women and Gender Justice: Methods, Motivation and Means " to the Faculty of Arts, Asia Institute, at the University of Melbourne, Australia in February 2010 ; a lecture on “ Tawhid and Spiritual Development for Social Action ” at Muslims for Progressive Values at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California in July 2011.

Bergen Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Bergen County, New Jersey.