New Jersey
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Other
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 2000 | 4060 | 3762 | 24 | 212 | 4 | 80 | ||
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Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
- Zoning
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Jewish
Comments
email 1/2008
This was a very affluent, elite town, that barred Jews until the 1960s….May not be a “sun down” town, but it’s pretty bleak. [On] a television program (WNET) on NYC in world war two …. one of the interviewees mentioned that she and her husband tried to buy a house in Ho-Ho-Kus with his GI benefits. But the town was segregated against Jews in the late 1940s.
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Ho-Ho-Kus is one of New Jersey’s many boroughs, a type of municipality unique to the state.
A New Jersey resident reports Ho-Ho-Kus was all-white when he was growing up in the area. A former Ho-Ho-Kus resident says “There was a sign,
‘restricted’, on route 17 in the early 1960s, down by 1965. Everybody in town new it was there.”