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• Englewood Rent Control Board

  Federal rent control policy in the United States was largely shaped by wartime emergency measures, but in cities like Englewood, New Jersey, those national decisions played out in intensely local and often divisive ways. The modern federal system began under the Emergency Price…

• Siegal, Peggy

• Siegal, Martin

  Martin Siegal was a mid-20th-century industrial executive and president of the Marvel Lamp Company Inc. of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a firm known for producing long-life electric light bulbs. A resident of Englewood Cliffs, Siegal represented the second generation of leadership in a…

• 1961 Englewood Champion Babe Ruth Baseball Team

  The story of Englewood’s 1961 Babe Ruth team is both a remarkable athletic achievement and a revealing episode in the history of race in America at the height of the civil rights era. State Champions In the summer of 1961, Englewood’s Babe Ruth All-Stars won the New Jersey…

• Robinson, Rob

  Rob Robinson was a longtime Englewood resident whose life reflected service, entrepreneurship, and quiet courage. Born in New York City in 1939 and raised in Harlem, he later served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era before settling in Englewood with his wife, Leora, in the…

• Cherot, Willa

• Clark, Joseph M.

• Harris, Gary

  Gary Juan Harris was a visionary music executive, A&R man, DJ, and cultural connector whose career traced the rise of hip-hop from New York’s underground to the center of American popular culture. Known for his instinctive ear, deep cultural literacy, and uncommon ability to…

• Robinson, Esby

  Esby Robinson emerged as one of the key pioneers of African American Democratic politics in Englewood during the interwar years. He became active locally in 1926, bringing with him political experience shaped in St. Louis, Missouri, where he had been connected to the city’s…

• A. Philip Randolph Englewood Visit, (October, 1931).

  Asa Philip Randolph in Englewood: factional politics and a divided Black community When Asa Philip Randolph appeared in Englewood during the early 1930s, his visit landed in the middle of a deeply divided Black political landscape, particularly in the city’s Fourth Ward. While…