Merton was chosen as an acceptable compromise, following a dispute between Wimbledon and Mitcham over the new borough's name.

The borough's name is pronounced, unlike Bogotá, capital city of Colombia, whose name is accented on the final syllable.

On June 13, 1898, the borough's name was changed to Dumont in honor of Dumont Clarke, the borough's first mayor.

In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as " Fair Lawn " Borough.

On December 1, 1930, the borough's name was changed to River Edge.

Various derivations of the borough's name have been offered, including one that " Waldwick " is Old English, from " wald " ( forest ) and " wick " ( settlement, place, or light ).

Effective May 1993, the borough's original name of " Glen Ridge Borough " was restored.

The borough's name is pronounced Ah-von ( not Ay-von ).

The borough's name is of Lenape origin, " Man-A-Squaw-Han ", meaning " stream of the island of squaws ".

Legend has it that the borough's name is derived from early settlers who bought the piece of land now known as Rumson from the Native Americans for some rum.

The borough's name cones from Francis S. Kinney, who purchased of land in the 1880s for an estate that included Lake Kinnelon, and built St. Hubert's Chapel in 1886 on an island in the lake.

The Mayor and Council approved Resolution R08-253 at the council meeting on Dec. 17, changing the borough's name to the Borough of Woodland Park, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

This close decision — the majority was only 33 votes according to early results — marked the fourth attempt to change the borough's historic name of West Paterson: voters rejected the names " Whispering Pines ", " West Park ," and " Garret Mountain " in 1989, 1995, and 2001 respectively.

In West Paterson, proponents of name change claimed that their proposal would improve the borough's reputation and thus property values within the borough, as outsiders would be less likely to confuse it with Paterson.

Although the district bears the borough's name, it also provides PreSchool-12 education to the residents of Whitaker and high school education to a number of students residing in Duquesne.

Another possible source of the borough's name is that the area, which used to be located within the township of Baldwin, was known as Whitehall Driving Park.

Dr. Edward Acker established a " Watercure Sanatorium " in Phillipsburg in 1848, and in 1856 when the borough's first post office was established, it took the name " Water Cure ".

However, the Slippery Rock Sliders name, logo, and colors have been purchased by the Slippery Rock Sports Group, LLC ( of which Mike Bencic is the President ) for the borough's new entry in the summer-collegiate Prospect League at Jack Critchfield.

The borough's name means " Field of honor " in German.

Other meanings have been suggested over the years and are listed on the borough's website, including an Indian word for running water, a cleft in the rock or under the rock or hollow rock, the word " hohokes ", signifying the whistle of the wind against the bark of trees, the Chihohokies Indians whose chief lived here, the Dutch Hoog Akers for " high acorns " or Hoge Aukers, Dutch for " high oaks ", the Indian word hoccus meaning " fox ", or woakus, " gray fox ", or that the " Ho " part means joy or spirit, and the rest of the name from " hohokes ," meaning a kind of bark of a tree.

A constant source of confusion has been the manner in which the borough's name has been spelled, with each syllable capitalized and separated by hyphens.

On November 12, 1920, the borough's name was officially changed to " Oradell ", based on the results of a referendum held ten days earlier.

The peninsular borough's maritime heritage is acknowledged in several ways. The City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum occupies a former public school designed by the New York City school system's turn-of-the-last-century master architect C. B. J. Snyder.

Brooklyn's job market is driven by three main factors: the performance of the national and city economy, population flows and the borough's position as a convenient back office for New York's businesses.

The borough's economy is cash-based.

The boundaries of the borough are coterminous with that of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the borough's land area is slightly smaller than that of the state of New Jersey.

Islington Council is the borough's local authority.

Laurence House, where many of the borough's offices are housed, is on the site of old St Laurence's Church ( aka the Catford Cathedral ).

Richmond Park's Kingston Gate is situated within the borough's boundary.

The Royal borough's motto is Quam Bonum in Unum Habitare, which translates approximately as ' How good it is to dwell in unity '.

The A5 is a major road in that forms much of the borough's western border.

To the south is the River Thames which forms the borough's boundary with the London Borough of Bexley and the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

60 % of the borough's population is White British, 20 % white non-British ( among which are large Polish and Irish communities ), 5 % black Caribbean, 5 % black African with various other ethnicities ( including Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese ) making up the remaining 11 percent.

Located in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in the borough of Queens, New York City, the Unisphere is one of the borough's most iconic and enduring symbols.

The home, which faced what is now Fair Lawn Avenue, became the borough's municipal building, but it was eventually torn down.

Fair Lawn Avenue is considered the borough's main street, containing its Borough Hall, Police Station, Public Library, and Community School.

The Little Ferry Seaplane Base is a public-use seaplane base located east of the borough's central business district, on the Hackensack River.

Oakland's downtown shopping area is along Ramapo Valley Road ( U. S. Route 202 ), with the Copper Tree Mall being the borough's largest single retail establishment.

The Hertz Corporation, a car rental company, is headquartered in Park Ridge and is the borough's largest single taxpayer.

Located on Main Street just east of Central Avenue in the borough's downtown area, the Ramsey Main Street station was built in 1868 and is the oldest passenger station in service in New Jersey.

In 2004, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about the borough's " fast growing gay and lesbian community ," and the marriage equality organization Garden State Equality's main Southern New Jersey office is in Collingswood.