Englewood Makes History

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  • Q-Tip’s career has roots that stretch into Englewood as part of the broader history of New Jersey’s role in hip-hop. Though he is most closely associated with Queens, New York, Q-Tip lived for a time in Englewood, New Jersey, joining a tradition of artists and cultural figures…

  • Sol Kaplan was a business owner and founder of Sol & Sol kosher deli on Palisade Avenue. He opened the deli in 1951 with his partner Sol Stein. Celebrities such as Dizzy Gillespie and Alan Alda discussed the deli on an episode of M*A*S*H. He fled his home village of Kopatkewich…
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  • Paula Kassell was a journalist and women's rights activist. She graduated from Barnard College in 1939. She helped found the Morris County Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). In 1975 she also helped found the newspaper New Directions for Women in Englewood. She…
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  • Barbara Kay was a civil rights activist, educator, and Freedom Rider whose work linked national struggles for racial justice with local efforts to dismantle segregation in northern communities. While she is often remembered alongside her husband, composer Ulysses S. Kay, Kay…
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  • Ulysses S. Kay was a prolific American classical composer whose work bridged music, history, and the Black freedom struggle. He was born into a distinguished musical family: his uncle was King Oliver, the legendary New Orleans jazz cornetist and bandleader who played a pivotal…
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  • Kehilat Kesher is an Orthodox synagogue in Englewood. Residents from both Englewood and Tenafly attend service. The synagogue was founded in 2000. Starting in 2010, Rabbi Akiva Block has served the synagogue.
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  • Clara Kellogg was the featured performer at the opening of the Athenaeum in Englewood in 1870. Clara Louise Kellogg (1842–1916) was one of the first American-born opera singers to achieve international fame. Born in Sumterville, South Carolina, and raised in New York, she…

  • Kelly was the Secretary of the New Jersey Association of Motion Pictures and chair of the contact bureau of the Motion Picture Association. Kelly owned the Englewood Theater and Realty Corp, which owned the Plaza Theater on Van Brunt Street. He also owned the Palisade Theater…
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  • Alicia Keys (born Alicia Augello Cook in 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actress whose blend of R&B, soul, jazz, and classical influences made her one of the most successful recording artists of the 21st century. She rose to international…

  • King Gardens is a group of townhouses built in the 1970s. It was named after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and is located in the fourth ward.
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