Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Emerson, NJ

Emerson is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, a suburb in the New York City metropolitan area that bills itself as "The Family Town."

Emerson was originally formed on April 8, 1903, from portions of Washington Township as the Borough of Etna, taking the name of the local railroad station.

On March 9, 1909, the borough changed its name from Etna to Emerson in honor of the author and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Emerson is the southernmost municipality in the Pascack Valley, a group of towns in northern Bergen County along the Pascack Brook.

The 2020 census counted 7,290 people in Emerson, living in 2,482 households across the borough's 2.42 square miles.

Emerson experienced a classic postwar suburban boom, exploding from 1,744 residents in 1950 to 6,849 in 1960, an increase of nearly 293% in a single decade.

Emerson Junior-Senior High School serves the borough's students in grades seven through twelve, and the borough is also served by a station on NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line.

The Emerson Woods, about 19 acres of woodland in the buffer area of the Oradell Reservoir, was slated for townhouse development until local opposition led the borough to purchase and preserve it in 2001 with county and state grants.

Centennial Park on Main Street, with its gazebo, walking path and residents-only community garden, was named in 2003 to mark the borough's 100th anniversary.

Washington Park in Emerson commemorates a site where General Washington's troops camped before the army moved on toward the crossing of the Delaware River.