Buying a Home in Hackensack, New Jersey

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Hackensack is located in Bergen County

Population: 37,049

Hackensack is the County Seat. It's history in the New World was the settelment by the Manhattan Dutchmen who crossed the Hudson to establish a trading post on a lesser river called their site New Barbados. For 274 years, the name, as well as the architecture of some buildings and institutions, retained the Dutch stamp. Not until 1921, by an act for a city charter, did New Barbados become Hackensack, an Indian term meaning "Place of sharp ground."

Hackensack is a city with diverse housing options. From modest single and two family homes, luxury highrise apartments on Prospect Avenue and mansions along Summit Avenue.

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