Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Roosevelt, NJ

Roosevelt is a borough in western Monmouth County that was established as Jersey Homesteads by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 29, 1937, from portions of Millstone Township.

Jersey Homesteads was created during the Great Depression as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, under the Resettlement Administration, with the purpose of resettling Jewish garment workers.

The town was conceived, largely by Benjamin Brown, as an integrated cooperative project in which farming, manufacturing and retail would all operate on a cooperative basis, built around a garment factory and a farm.

The borough was renamed Roosevelt effective November 9, 1945, following a referendum held three days earlier, in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died on April 12, 1945.

The 2020 United States census counted 808 people in Roosevelt, down from 882 in 2010 and a peak of 933 in 2000.

The 2010 census counted 314 households in the borough, with an average household size of 2.81 people.

The entire area within Roosevelt's corporate boundaries forms the Jersey Homesteads Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Artist Ben Shahn lived in Roosevelt and completed a fresco mural in 1938, still viewable in the Roosevelt Public School, whose three panels trace the community's story from its residents' eastern European origins through Ellis Island to the planning of the town.

Albert Einstein gave the Jersey Homesteads project his political and moral support.

The cooperative experiment faltered quickly: the Farm Security Administration declared it a failure in 1939, and the settlement's agricultural cooperative ceased operations in 1940, though the cooperative grocery and meat market endured into the 1940s.