Parks and Recreation:

Recreation Department: 201-592-5783 Leonia Municipal Pool: 201-944-9430. Full time recreation director is employed. Facilities include 6 parks (including Overpeck Park which is run by Bergen County and Wood), 3 athletic fields, baseball, jogging, horseback riding and more. Day camp run through the summer for children ages 3 1/2 to 13.

Town History:

Atemus Ward would be pleased by the Leonia of today. In 1899, his Leonia Heights Land company set out to create a community that would be unique; an idea sparked by a trip to Leonia on the Edgewater Ferry that year. Ward, the head of the New York advertising concern, envisioned a white collar community whose residents would enjoy open space and an upper-class residential environment with an emphasis on education & culture. Nature has already graced the farming community with tranquility and plenty of greenery; the tranquility had been interrupted during the Revolutionary War by British Raids on Local farms and General Washington's retreat through the area towards Trenton.

Public Library
Website:	http://www.bccls.org

 

Public Schools

Dept of Ed 201-947-5655, Dr. Josefsberg, located 570 Grand Ave Anna Scott Elementary School (K-6): 201-461-9100 Leonia Middle School (7-9): 201-461-9100 Leonia High School (10-12): 201-461-7411, located at 100 Christie Heights Local Parochial & Private Schools: Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, St. John's Roman Catholic Church, All Saints Episcopal, & Children's Garden Nursery

Housing Information
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