Highways of Bergen County, New Jersey

The road’s path from Paterson to Hackensack is quite simple, Market Street and Essex Street. This portion of the road was part of the pre-1928 NJ 10. (An abutment marked “State Highway Route 10” still exists on the Saddle River bridge.) NJ 10 then followed modern CR 124 (now CR 49 and CR 50), US 1/9, and NJ 5 to Edgewater.

Once you get to the courthouse in Hackensack, however, things get a bit confusing. The road crosses the Court Street bridge, but the stretch between Main Street and the bridge is one-way eastbound. The equivalent westbound stretch is not maintained by the county, which now routes “mainline” CR 12 over a stretch of Hudson Street, formerly CR 124, and a block of East Kansas Street previously shown as CR C-4. The 0.16-mile stretch of Court Street between Main Street (under municipal control) and River Street is maintained by Bergen County but not logged here.

Across the river in Bogota, Court Street becomes Fort Lee Road, but east of River Street, traffic follows CR 17 for a block to get over to Main Street, as Fort Lee Road no longer goes through (or crosses the West Shore tracks). The alternate route, Main Street in Bogota and DeGraw Avenue in Teaneck, rejoins Fort Lee Road in Leonia and continues across to Fort Lee.

A very short stretch of Fort Lee Road in Teaneck (just to the east of Teaneck Road) is county-controlled, until that long-abandoned old road, which certainly did connect to Fort Lee Road in Leonia many years ago, drifts off into the Overpeck swamp. That is CR 58.

Yet another short stretch of road still listed as CR 56 crosses the Midtown Bridge, a span originally built for trolley traffic but modified as a highway bridge in the 1930s.

Mile	Street Name	Feature (West to East)
0.00	BEGINS, Elmwood Park Boro
0.00	Market St	Passaic River {bridge}
Westbound crossing the Passaic River on a 1923 bridge that once carried NJSHR 10.
0.05	Market St	(River Rd )
0.35	Market St	River Dr {signal}
0.43	Market St	Bergen-Passaic Expwy {underpass}
0.50	Market St	Van Riper Ave
Westbound on Market Street approaching Van Riper Avenue (right) and I-80.
0.69	Market St	Church St {signal}
0.96	Market St	Boulevard {signal}
1.01	Market St	Unnamed stream {bridge}
1.04	Market St	Garden State Pkwy {underpass}
1.19	Market St	Susquehanna Railroad spur
1.59	Market St	Midland Ave {signal}
1.63	Entering Saddle Brook Boro
1.63	Market St	Erie Railroad {at-grade crossing}
1.65	Market St	(Erie St) {signal}
1.81	Market St	[5 St] {signal}
2.23	Market St	(Mayhill St) {signal}
2.42	Market St	Westminster Pl [] {signal}
2.83	Market St	(Saddle River Rd )
2.91	Market St	Bergen-Passaic Expwy {underpass}
2.92	Market St	Saddle River {bridge}
2.92	Entering (Rochelle Park Boro) [Lodi Boro]
2.94	Essex St	(Rochelle Ave) [Main St]
3.15	Essex St	[Riverview Ave, to interchange 63] {signal}
3.40	Entering (Maywood Boro) [Lodi Boro]
3.48	Essex St	{overpass}
3.61	Essex St	(Maywood Ave ) [Ramp to north] {signal}
3.82	Essex St	Susquehanna Railroad spur {at-grade crossing}
3.83	Essex St	[Shopping center entrance] {signal}
3.87	Entering Hackensack City
From Summit Avenue, looking westbound.
4.20	Essex St	Summit Ave {signal}
4.29	Essex St	Prospect Ave {signal}
4.55	Essex St	(1 St) [Polifly Rd] {signal}
4.66	Essex St	Newman St {signal}
4.74	Essex St	Erie Railroad {at-grade crossing}
4.98	Essex St	(State St) [Huyler St) {signal}
Eastbound on Essex Street approaching the Bergen County courthouse. CR 12 bears to the right along Hudson Street.
5.10	bears right onto Hudson St
5.26	Hudson St	Kansas St {signal}
5.26	turns left onto Kansas St
5.26	Kansas St	Hudson St [] {signal}
East Kansas Street, the former CR C-4, approaching River Street.
5.37	Kansas St	River St {signal}
5.37	turns left onto River St, co-signed with
5.62	turns right onto Court St
5.62	Court St	River St {signal}
5.71	Court St	Hackensack River {bridge}
5.71	Entering Bogota Boro
6.04	Fort Lee Rd	Railroad crossing control {signal}
6.07	Fort Lee Rd	Susquehanna Railroad {at-grade crossing}
6.11	Fort Lee Rd	River Rd {signal}
6.11	turns left onto River Rd, co-signed with
River Road northbound, at Fort Lee Road. Note the sign for county primary routes 12 and 17. Primary route 12 eastbound uses one block of River Road.
6.22	River Rd	Main St ()
6.22	turns right onto Main St
6.22	Main St	River Rd {signal}
6.35	Main St	Larch Ave {signal}
6.42	Main St	Elm St {signal}
6.47	Main St	West Shore Railroad {overpass}
Westbound Main Street crosses the West Shore Railroad.
6.66	Main St	Palisade Ave {signal}
6.76	Entering Teaneck Twp
6.92	DeGraw Ave	Queen Anne Rd {signal}
7.38	DeGraw Ave	Teaneck Rd {signal}
7.64	DeGraw Ave	Branch Overpeck Creek {bridge}
7.70	DeGraw Ave	Frank W Burr Blvd {signal}
7.98	DeGraw Ave	Bergen-Passaic Expwy interchange 70 {overpass}
8.16	DeGraw Ave	Overpeck Creek {bridge}
The Fort Lee Road bridge over the Overpeck Creek, looking west.
8.16	Entering Leonia Boro
8.50	Fort Lee Rd	Northern Railroad {at-grade crossing}
8.53	Fort Lee Rd	[Meadowview Station Pkwy] {signal}
8.54	Fort Lee Rd	(Willow Tree Rd) {signal}
8.64	Fort Lee Rd	Grand Ave {signal}
8.93	Fort Lee Rd	Broad Ave {signal}
9.08	Fort Lee Rd	Glenwood Ave {signal}
9.36	Entering Fort Lee Boro
9.42	Main St	Bergen Blvd {underpass}
Fort Lee Road heading west under US 1 (better known here as US 46).
9.45	Main St	Maple St {signal}
9.66	Main St	(Edwin Ave) [John St] {signal}
9.82	Main St	(Linwood Ave ) {signal}
9.82	Next 0.04 mile co-signed with
9.86	Main St	Anderson Ave [] {signal}
10.01	Main St	Center Ave {signal}
10.14	Main St	Lemoine Ave southbound {signal}
Fort Lee Road heading east and crossing NJ 67.
10.16	Main St	Schlosser St northbound {signal}
10.24	Main St	(Martha Washington Dr) [Palisade Ave] {signal}
10.40	Main St	(Bigler St )
10.46	Main St	(Hudson Terr) [Main St]
10.46	ENDS, Fort Lee Boro