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21 unusual facts about Montclair


Angelo Bertelli

On June 26, 1999, Angelo Bertelli died at the age of 78 after a losing battle with brain cancer was buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Montclair.

Charles Whitney Coombs

Charles Whitney Coombs (1859, Bucksport, Maine – 1940, Montclair, New Jersey) was an American composer and organist.

Christ Church USA

This led to the purchase of a 107-acre campus in Rockaway, New Jersey which was renovated and opened for worship in 2009; complimenting the metropolitan cathedral in Montclair.

David Wynn Miller

In 2005, Montclair, New Jersey resident Brenda Rickard was arrested and charged with orchestrating a $30 million mortgage scam: "Rickard, who claimed her name is :Brenda :Rickard, is a follower of :Judge: David-Wynn: Miller, who gives seminars around the country and advocates speaking in the 'true language,' which features odd punctuation and syntax. 'I have no problem with the complaint against me as long as it’s in the truthful language,' Rickard told the judge."

Egon Hostovský

Egon Hostovský (23 April 1908, Hronov – 7 May 1973, Montclair), was a Czech writer.

Emily Blackwell

After traveling abroad for a year and a half, they spent the next winters at their home in Montclair, New Jersey and summers in Maine.

Hope for the Flowers

The Waddling Fools, a musical group based at Rancho Mastatal in Costa Rica, and in Montclair, New Jersey, performed the song "Hope for the Flowers" at Bioneers by the Bay, sponsored by the Marion Institute, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in October 2009, and the song appears on the CD Canta No Llore: The Songs of Mastatal, which benefits the Mastate Charitable Foundation.

Ian Frazier

Since departing the Great Plains, Frazier has lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Montclair, New Jersey with his wife, the author Jacqueline Carey, and their two children, Cora and Thomas.

Illegals Program

Vladimir and Lidiya Guryev were arrested at their home in Montclair, New Jersey.

Irving W. Drew

He died in Montclair, New Jersey in 1922; was interment in Summer Street Cemetery, Lancaster.

Lambda Tau Omega

Lambda Tau Omega (ΛΤΩ) is a multicultural sorority founded in 1988 at Montclair State College, now known as Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey.

Lin Carter

He resided in East Orange, New Jersey in his final years, and died in nearby Montclair, New Jersey.

Mercury Montclair

Ford historians are at a loss as to where the name originated; the consensus is that it's taken from the upper class community of Montclair, New Jersey.

Montclair-Boonton Line

This service would connect the stations at Pequannock, Pompton Plains, Pompton and connect at the Pompton Junction, the site of the former Pompton Junction station.

William H. Botsford designed it, but did not live to see it open as he died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Montclair, Oakland, California

One of the first schools located in Montclair was at the current site of the now-closed Moraga Avenue firehouse and was named in honor of John Coffee Hays, one of the founders of the city of Oakland.

Roy Kral

Roy Kral (October 10, 1921 in Cicero, Illinois – August 2, 2002 in Montclair, New Jersey) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist best known for his partnership with his wife Jackie Cain as the team Jackie and Roy.

Shelf Awareness

With offices in Seattle, Washington and Montclair, New Jersey, Shelf Awareness publishes an e-newsletter for the book industry and an e-newsletter for general readers.

Those Mockingbirds

Those Mockingbirds are an American band from Montclair, New Jersey, consisting of Adam Bird (vocals, guitar), Tory Daines (violin, vocals, piano), Jonathan Gianino (guitar), Rob Fitzgerald (bass guitar), and Kevin Walters (drums, percussion).

William Jacob Baer

Upon his return to the United States, Baer settled into the Montclair, New Jersey art colony to continue his career as a genre, portrait painter and teacher.

Zao Wou-Ki

In 1957, Zao decided to visit the United States where his younger brother Chao Wu-Wai was living in Montclair, New Jersey, close to the art scene of New York City.


Carl Orechio

Losing were Republican Anthony Gallo, a Bloomfield councilman, and Democrat Robert W. Noonan of Montclair.

East Newark, New Jersey

Newark Broad Street Station is the rail station closest to East Newark, with connections to New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line and both branches of the Morris & Essex Lines.

Emil Ludwig

What was originally an omitted section of the interview by Stalin himself, Professor of Montclair State University Grover Furr had finally published an English version of it.

Essex Park, New Jersey

In 2008, the township of Montclair was looking for ways to lower its budget and as part of a series of budget cuts and cancellations decided that the ice rink at Essex Park, the Clary Anderson Arena, should be privatized.

Gold Line Foothill Extension

"Phase 2B" is the project to extend the Gold Line corridor from the Phase 2A terminus in Azusa east to Montclair.

The FEIR studied two Build Alternatives: (1) an "LRT Full Build" alternative which would complete the entire extension to Montclair, and (2) an "LRT Build To Azusa" alternative, which would extend only to Azusa.

The plan is currently being implemented as two separate mass-transit projects, known as Phase 2A and Phase 2B, with termini in Azusa and Montclair, respectively.

IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession

Jon Katz (Montclair, N.J., Wired, Rolling Stone and Slashdot.org): For his book, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho.

Jackie and Roy

Jackie and Roy was a jazz vocal team consisting of husband and wife singer Jackie Cain (born May 22, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and singer/pianist Roy Kral (born October 10, 1921 in Cicero, Illinois; died August 2, 2002 in Montclair, New Jersey).

Lauren Worsham

Lisa in Dog Days (Peak Performances @ Montclair/Beth Morrison Projects)

Matt Carter

Matthew G. Carter (1913–2012), first African-American Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey

Morris and Essex Railroad

In 1876 the new tunnel under Bergen Hill opened, after hostilities including a frog war in late 1870 and early 1871, caused by the M&E's attempts to modify the connection between their Boonton Branch, a newer freight bypass, and the Erie tunnel.

Nell Soto

Soto represented the 61st Assembly district (including parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties and the cities of Ontario, Pomona, Chino and Montclair) from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2006 to 2008.

One Washington Park

It is near highways and public transportation, notably Interstate 280 and Newark Broad Street Station, where there is service on New Jersey Transit Morris and Essex and Montclair-Boonton Lines (including Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station) and Newark Light Rail service to Newark Penn Station.

Wild Wild Life

It was played live for the first time on June 11, 2013, at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey, with each of the eight-piece brass section taking turns to sing a line of the song twice during the performance.

Yogi Berra Stadium

Floyd Hall, a resident of Montclair who was then serving as chief executive officer of Kmart, donated money to the university in order to build an ice arena, which is known as Floyd Hall Arena and is a multi-use facility that several of the area's high school hockey teams call home, and a new baseball stadium for Montclair State's team to replace their previous venue, Pittser Field.