List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey explained

The following is a list of notable current and former residents of Teaneck, New Jersey.

(B) denotes that the person was born in Teaneck.

Academics and science

Arts

Architecture

Authors, journalists and publishers

Fine arts

(B)[52] [53] (B)[54]

Fashion

(B)[60]

Movies, stage and television

(B)[65] (B)[81] (B)[91] (B)[104] (B)[112] (B)[118] (B)[122]

Music

Notes and References

  1. Saxon, Wolfgang. "Robert S. Browne, 79, Dies; Economist and Advocate", The New York Times, August 15, 2004. Accessed October 12, 2022. "Robert Span Browne, a prominent economist and foreign-aid administrator who founded important African-American self-help programs, died on Aug. 5 at a hospital in West Haverstraw, N.Y. He was 79 and lived in Teaneck, N.J."
  2. http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/CHAP1864.htm Chapman, Frank Michler (United States 1864–1945)
  3. via Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "Stephen P. Cohen, Middle East intermediary, dies at 71; Canadian native lived in Teaneck", Times of Israel, January 25, 2017. Accessed January 25, 2017. "Stephen Philip Cohen, a Canadian-born academic and Jewish organizational leader who served as a confidential intermediary between Israeli and Arab leaders for three decades, died Wednesday. He was 71 and had been in poor health."
  4. Palmer, Joanne. "Remembering Dr. Herbert Dardik; Englewood Health’s chief vascular surgeon developed techniques, taught generations of students, inspired much love", Jewish Standard, May 28, 2020. Accessed July 18, 2020. "By the time he talked about Dr. Herbert Dardik of Tenafly, enough time had passed for Warren Geller to have assimilated the fact of Dr. Dardik’s death.... In 1968, the Dardik family moved to Teaneck, and in 1976 they moved to Tenafly."
  5. http://www.dvoc.org/Personnel/Gill.htm Dr. Frank Gill
  6. Winkler, Lisa K. "College Presidents Series: Alan Kadish, M.D., Touro President and CEO", Education Update, June 2010. Accessed October 24, 2011. "Kadish relocated to Teaneck, N.J., where he lives with his wife and teenage child. Three older children are in college."
  7. [Israel Shenker|Shenker, Israel]
  8. Staff. "Karl Meyer, 90, Dies; A Research Biochemist", The New York Times, May 22, 1990. Accessed September 12, 2017. "Dr. Karl Meyer, a research biochemist who specialized in connective tissue diseases, died on Friday at the Dunroven Nursing Home in Cresskill, N.J. He was 90 years old and lived in Teaneck, N.J."
  9. Chawkins, Steve. "Clifford Nass dies at 55; sociologist warned against multitasking; He was one of the first academics to study the dangers of chronic multitasking and the decline of face-to-face interaction.", Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2013. Accessed November 8, 2013. "Born in Jersey City, N.J., on April 3, 1958, Nass grew up in Teaneck, N.J., and graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics."
  10. [Jane S. Richardson|Richardson, Jane S.]
  11. via United Press. "Two In Same School Win Science Contest", The New York Times, March 4, 1958. Accessed September 13, 2011. "The other scholarship winners are Jane Shelby, 17, of 431 Claremont Avenue, Teaneck, N. J., $5,000; Donald M. Jerina, 18, of River Grove, Ill., $4,000, and Neal L. Nininger of Larkspur, Calif., $3,000."
  12. Staff. Biophysicist in Profile: Jane S. Richardson, Biophysical Society Newsletter, February 2012. Accessed June 5, 2012. "Her Teaneck, New Jersey, high school afforded access to amateur astronomy groups, both there and in nearby New York City."
  13. http://www.yu.edu/uploadedfiles/schachter%20cv.pdf Curriculum Vitae: Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
  14. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/livingston-nj/lawrence-solan-11691482 Obituary of Lawrence Solan
  15. Palmer, Joanne. "Talking to God? Dr. Ben Sommer explains the Shema and other ancient Near Eastern Texts", Jewish Standard, January 26, 2017. Accessed January 1, 2021. "Dr. Benjamin Sommer of Teaneck, a professor of Bible and ancient Semitic languages, will talk about that and other Jewish issues as scholar in residence at Temple Emanu-el of Closter. As always, he speaks as an academically rigorous scholar who is also an observant Conservative Jew, an active member of Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck."
  16. Kerwick, Mike. "Teaneck doctor focuses on balancing family and career", The Record, January 19, 2011. Accessed January 19, 2011.
  17. Staff. "Helen Walker, 91, First Woman To Head U.S. Statistical Group", The New York Times, January 18, 1983. Accessed December 3, 2014. "Helen M. Walker, a leader in educational statistics and the first woman to be president of the American Statistical Association, died Saturday at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J. She was 91 years old and lived in Teaneck."
  18. Sullivan, Ronald. "Westin in Teaneck: Guiding a Magazine", The New York Times, December 5, 1976. Accessed March 31, 2011. "The Civil Liberties Review is celebrating its third birthday as a national bimonthly magazine sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. While the magazine's editorial offices are at 22 East 40th Street in Manhattan, its guiding force emanates from the second-story study of Prof. Alan F. Westin in Teaneck."
  19. Langer, Emily via Washington Post News Service. "Alan Westin, 83, privacy scholar", The Record, February 21, 2013. Accessed February 21, 2013. "Alan Westin, one of the first and most widely respected scholars to explore the dilemmas of privacy in the information age, died Monday of cancer at a hospice in Saddle River. The longtime Teaneck resident was 83."
  20. Nizin, Joel. "A Brief History of Roy Wilhelm and the Annual Souvenir Picnic of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá", Wilhelm Bahá’í Properties of Teaneck. Accessed December 19, 2013. "Wilmette House of Worship – Designed by Teaneck local, Louis Bourgeois"
  21. Yudelson, Larry. "Teaneck Holocaust memorial moves forward; Plan to pair it with slave memorial in front of town’s municipal building", Jewish Standard, October 15, 2015. Accessed August 23, 2022. "The council heard from the Holocaust memorial’s new architect, Alan Hantman. Mr. Hantman, a 25-year resident of Teaneck who now lives in Fort Lee, was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the chief architect of the U.S. Capitol."
  22. McGrath, Charles. "Shalom Auslander: An Orthodox Jewish outsider grapples with his past", International Herald Tribune, October 3, 2007. Accessed December 19, 2013. "In the early 1990s he was married and living in Teaneck, New Jersey, working in an ad agency and just getting started as a writer. One Saturday he walked all the way to Madison Square Garden to see a game during the Stanley Cup playoffs. God punished him by making the Rangers lose."
  23. Bendheim, Kim. "Adult Education a Writer Learns the Tragic Histories of His Family and His People", Chicago Tribune, July 13, 1997. Accessed August 26, 2013. "Balakian spent his early childhood wanting to be Jewish like his neighborhood friends in Teaneck. When he tells his mother he has no intention of moving with the family from their home in Teaneck to the nearby but WASPier, more-upscale town of Tenafly because, 'I'm Jewish, I belong here,' her warning-response strikes him as strange."
  24. http://www.cathybaobean.com/publications.htm The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual
  25. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930081254/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867669,00.html The Golden Hack
  26. Menconi, David. "SxSW @ 25: Texas Ex Louis Black reflects on the little festival he almost didn't start", The Alcalde, March / April 2011, pp. 38–43. Accessed September 14, 2011. "Black's career is idiosyncratic and it should be inspirational to anyone who doesn't quite fit in. His early years in Teaneck, N.J., were distinguished mostly by dyslexia, attention-deficit issues, tone-deafness, poor math skills, and poorer handwriting.... Before long, Black and [Leonard] Maltin were skipping after-school studies to go watch movies. 'I wasn't going to do any better in school, and Leonard wasn't going to do any worse,' Black says."
  27. Staff. "New Jersey Briefs", The New York Times, June 4, 1977. Accessed September 13, 2011.
  28. Staff. "Monday Profile, Parachute Author Still Has Passion For Writing", Contra Costa Times, December 26, 2005. Accessed September 13, 2011. "Bolles credits his father for his boundless energy and his mother for his kindness. 'I was raised by the grandest parents in the world in Teaneck, NJ', he said."
  29. Sullivan, Al. "A hot night at the bookstore; Writers of women’s erotica to talk about craft and passion", The Hudson Reporter, February 5, 2017. Accessed November 3, 2017. "One of the things that former Jersey City resident Rachel Kramer Bussel learned as she edited her latest book on women’s erotica is that exploring personal passion can be very liberating.... Currently a resident of Teaneck, she lived briefly in Jersey City."
  30. [William Grimes (journalist)|Grimes, William]
  31. Eng, Christina. "'On Moving,' by Louise DeSalvo", San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2009. Accessed March 31, 2009.
  32. http://www.templebethelofnorthbergen.org/about/rabbi-shammai-englemeyer/ Rabbi Shammai Englemeyer
  33. Macdonald, Andrew. Howard Fast: A Critical companion, p. 26, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. . Accessed March 18, 2012. "Back in America, the Fasts lived in the suburbs, in Teaneck, New Jersey, and Howard joined the Daily Worker as a permanent staff member."
  34. http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2003/0315/feuilleton/0023/index.html Und Spartakus
  35. http://www.jeffgottesfeldwrites.com/about/4553322456 About
  36. Bieltz, Brandon. "DINFOS hosts embedded photographer, journalist at forum",The Baltimore Sun, July 10, 2014. Accessed August 4, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Hartov, an author and New York Times best-seller, served as the editor-in-chief of Special Operations Report, a professional journal on military and law enforcement special tactics."
  37. Duin, Steve. "David Heatley", The Oregonian, October 24, 2008. Accessed August 4, 2022."Heatley said, who grew up with a father who occasionally indulged in the N-word (which 'isn't a racist word for me,' he tells his son, 'just a good word to use when I'm angry') but who 'consciously chose the town I grew up in, Teaneck, N.J., because it was 50 percent black.'"
  38. Boroson, Rebecca. "Former Post Staffer Marilyn Henry Dies, 58; Veteran journalist was expert on looted Holocaust art.", The Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2011. Accessed August 4, 2018. "Marilyn Henry, a journalist and lecturer, died of cancer on Tuesday, four days short of her 58th birthday. She lived in Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer."
  39. Staff. "Robert Hilferty, Writer and AIDS Activist, Is Dead at 49", The New York Times, August 19, 2009. Accessed December 20, 2017. "Born in Teaneck, N.J., on Dec. 14, 1959, Mr. Hilferty was a son of Robert and Joan Massa Hilferty."
  40. Levin, Jay. "John Hoerr, 84, chronicled the fall of steel", The Record, June 26, 2015. Accessed June 26, 2015. "John Hoerr, a journalist and former Teaneck resident, authored one of the most definitive accounts of the collapse of America's steel industry.... The Hoerrs moved to Middleborough in 2009 after 33 years in Teaneck."
  41. http://www.opensoc.org/newsletter/index.html What Teaneck Did
  42. Staff. "Meeting to feature columnist Mike Kelly", Pascack Valley Community Life, November 6, 2014. Accessed June 26, 2015. "Kelly is married and the father of two adult daughters. He lives in Teaneck."
  43. Samuel, Adam. "Teaneck Comic Author Brings ‘The Panic’ to Readers", Jewish Link, April 28, 2022. Accessed April 28, 2022. "Neil Kleid boasts quite the impressive comic book resume.... He’s also a Modern Orthodox Jew from Teaneck, and his newest story, a digital comic book series from Comixology Originals that will then be adapted into print by Dark Horse Comics, promises to be a thrilling addition to his catalog."
  44. Italie, Hillel via Associated Press. "Lisa Lucas, head of National Book Foundation, to join Knopf", Star Tribune, July 15, 2020. Accessed July 15, 2020. "Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation since 2016, has been named senior vice president of the Knopf imprints Pantheon and Schocken Books.... A native of New York City who grew up in Teaneck and Montclair, New Jersey, Lucas has held a variety of positions in the book world, whether publishing Guernica magazine or serving on the literary council of the Brooklyn Book Festival."
  45. Page, Jeffrey. "Rampaging Computers", The Record, March 1, 1993. Accessed September 10, 2009. "Malzberg, of Teaneck, opened the mail and found a warrant had been issued for his arrest because, the computer's microchips insisted, he had failed to pay a parking ticket 9½ years ago."
  46. Voreacos, David. "Author Comes Of Age – First Book Is A Novel Experience", The Record, November 27, 1991. Accessed June 26, 2015. "The four years Teaneck native Brian Morton spent writing his first published novel, The Dylanist, brought him more than mere critical acclaim."
  47. Jacob, Maryann. "Her books show life of 'Latinos'", The Record, June 23, 1977. Accessed December 16, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Artist-writer Nicholasa Mohr moves in two worlds: the Spanish-speaking areas of New York City where she was born of Puerto Rican parents; and suburban Teaneck where she lives with her psychologist husband and two teen-age sons.... Ms. Mohr, who has lived in Teaneck for seven years, says one of the things she likes about Bergen is that it's near to New York City."
  48. http://www.suddenrain.org/about.htm Sudden Rain – About the Author
  49. Horner, Shirley. "New Jersey Q & A: John A. Williams; A Novelist's Journey in Race Relations", The New York Times, June 13, 1993. Accessed July 8, 2015. "In an interview at his home in Teaneck, Professor Williams, 67, further talked about the relationship between blacks and whites in general, and blacks and Jews in particular; his interracial marriage and the experience of teaching at Rutgers.... In 1975, the Williamses left Manhattan for Teaneck; four years later, he accepted a full-time professorship at Rutgers.... Q. How did you come to Teaneck? A. We came here because we felt the town would not be inhospitable to a mixed marriage."
  50. [Benjamin Genocchio|Genocchio, Benjamin]
  51. Regan, Margaret. "Charles Harbutt overcame many obstacles in his career, most notably cynicism.", Tucson Weekly, December 29, 1997. Accessed October 12, 2009. "Harbutt grew up in the little town of Teaneck, N.J. He learned so much about photography from the 'amateurs' in the local camera club that at Marquette in the 1950s he was banned from photog classes on the grounds that he already knew what he was doing".
  52. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/raleigh-nc/renaldo-kuhler-5553810 Renaldo Kuhler Obituary - Raleigh, NC
  53. https://www.artnet.com/artists/renaldo-kuhler/biography Renaldo Kuhler
  54. Smith, Roberta. "Thomas Edward Nozkowski was born on March 23, 1944, in Teaneck, N.J., to Edward and Edna (Angevine) Nozkowski and grew up in Dumont, N.J.", The New York Times, May 17, 2019. Accessed May 31, 2021. ""Thomas Edward Nozkowski was born on March 23, 1944, in Teaneck, N.J., to Edward and Edna (Angevine) Nozkowski and grew up in Dumont, N.J."
  55. Staff. "Frank R. Paul Dead; Illustrator Was 79", The New York Times, June 30, 1963. Accessed September 14, 2011. "Teaneck, N. J., June 29 – Frank R. Paul, an artist who was known as the dean of science-fiction illustrators, died at his home, 700 Cedar Lane. He was 79 years old."
  56. Fleming, John. "Saying it with flowers Series: Dance Preview", Tampa Bay Times, June 19, 1992. Accessed June 6, 2013. "'I'm bringing the costumes, and the props are going to be found there,' Porter says, speaking from her home in Teaneck, N.J."
  57. [Paul Shambroom|Shambroom, Paul]
  58. Beckerman, Jim. "Chuck Stewart's photo portraits of jazz greats on display at bergenPAC", The Record, October 14, 2010. Accessed September 13, 2011. "The difference between Chuck Stewart, the Teaneck photographer whose jazz portraits graced the covers of more than 2,000 albums, and today's paparazzi is that Stewart was always looking to capture his subjects at exactly the right moment.... Stewart, 83, a widower with three children, lives in the Teaneck house he moved into in 1965."
  59. [Philip Gefter|Gefter, Philip]
  60. https://www.photobookmagazine.com/features/2020/6/20/rachel-antonoffs-clothing-brand-was-created-on-the-foundation-of-equality-inclusivity "Rachel Antonoff's Clothing Brand Was Created On The Foundation Of Equality & Inclusivity"
  61. Staff. "Fashion Flattery: Teaneck native Marc Jacobs to be honored by CFDA", Bergen.com, March 23, 2011. Accessed December 19, 2013.
  62. Robb, Adam. "NJ native designers Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, nominated for CFDA Fashion Awards", The Star-Ledger, March 17, 2011. Accessed March 17, 2011. "Jacobs was raised in Teaneck and attended Teaneck High School and McCollough grew up in the New Jersey suburbs."
  63. https://web.archive.org/web/20100426105217/http://www.tendances-de-mode.com/en/2006/12/19/3-marc-jacobs-le-styliste-prefere-des-americaines Marc Jacobs
  64. Rourke, Mary. "Lynn Kohlman dies at 62; model and photographer was muse to top designers", Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2008. Accessed October 25, 2014. "Kohlman was born Aug. 12, 1946, in Teaneck, N.J."
  65. Lavin, Cheryl. "Amy Aquino", Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1992. Accessed February 1, 2018. "Birthplace: Teaneck, N.J."
  66. via United Press International. "Daniel Boone's Pal; Actor's Family Lives in Contrasts", The Desert Sun, July 3, 1965. Accessed June 30, 2019. "Ed Ames, who plays the half-breed Indian on the Daniel Boone series, is a two-house family man with homes in Teaneck, N.J., and Woodland Hills in the San Fernando valley of southern California. As a result, the Ames clan lives a life of contrasts. His east coast diggings are traditional and solidly conservative."
  67. [Bernard Weinraub|Weinraub, Bernard]
  68. Sommers, Michael W. "Scaling 'the Heights': Musical charmer catches Tonys' eye with 13 nods", The Star-Ledger, May 13, 2008. Accessed October 19, 2011."Among the nominees with Jersey roots are Kinnelon native Laura Benanti as featured actress in a musical for gracefully portraying an ugly duckling who becomes stripper extraordinaire Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy; lifelong Teaneck resident de'Adre Aziza in the same category for playing several characters in "Passing Strange..."
  69. Kiper, Dmitry. "de'Adre Aziza", Broadway.com, May 22, 2008. Accessed October 19, 2011. "A year after de'Adre—pronounced 'Dee-A-dra,' a fanciful variation on Deidre—was born, her mom got a job offer in New York, but 'being from the country, she didn't want to move to the big city, so she moved to Teaneck,' the actress explains."
  70. Palmer, Joanne. "News from a Jersey girl", Jewish Standard, May 1, 2015. Accessed August 28, 2024. "Ms. Bash was born in Manhattan, moved to Teaneck when she was 2, and then moved to Washington just a few years later."
  71. Salazar, Carolyn. "Teaneck couple sue radio shock jocks over on-air stunt", The Record, December 4, 2007. Accessed October 25, 2014.
  72. Bratt, Heidi Mae. "Eitan Bernath’s sizzling career From Teaneck kitchen to television, viral videos, and an empire of his own", Jewish Standard, August 25, 2021. Accessed February 8, 2022. "We can say that we knew him way back when. The Jewish Standard featured Eitan Bernath on the cover of About Our Children, its family magazine, in November 2015. In that issue, Eitan created Thanksgiving recipes for our readers in the kitchen of his Teaneck home."
  73. http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/people/advisory_bios.html Advisory Board Biographies
  74. [Steven Heller (design writer)|Heller, Steven]
  75. [Alvin Klein|Klein, Alvin]
  76. http://au.movies.yahoo.com/Philip+Bosco/biography/121721/biography/ Biography of Philip Bosco
  77. Rohan, Virginia. "Haworth's Philip Bosco is a seasoned star", The Record, November 14, 2007. Accessed November 14, 2007. "'It's lived in,' says Bosco, who moved to Haworth after 31 years in Teaneck."
  78. http://www.scifi.com/firstwave/profiles/index.html Profile of Chris Brancato: Writer / Creator
  79. Neglia, Ashley V. "New Faces NJ: Colleen Broomall: Actress Colleen Broomall, who starred in soap operas as a child, works to get back in the industry. ", New Jersey Monthly, October 11, 2010. Accessed May 1, 2016. "At two months old, Colleen Broomall was a working actress on As the World Turns. Playing Meg Ryan's soap-opera daughter, the Teaneck native (raised in Norwood) spent parts of the first five years of her life on the set, working alongside actors such as Julianne Moore and Marisa Tomei."
  80. Spelling, Ian. "Splendid on the Screen and Stage: Actress Carolee Carmello" (201) magazine, April 4, 2017. Accessed June 26, 2017. "Carmello returns home to Leonia after each evening performance of Sweeney Todd. A divorced mother of two, a son and daughter, she’s lived there for 14 years, after spending seven years in Teaneck."
  81. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/11/arts/syd-cassyd-91-envisioned-tv-academy.html "Syd Cassyd, 91; Envisioned TV Academy"
  82. Corbett, Nic. "'Friday Night Lights' actor soon graduating with master's from Drew Theological School plans comeback ", The Star-Ledger, November 22, 2011. Accessed March 18, 2012. "With a backpack slung over one shoulder and a spiral notebook in hand, the 28-year-old actor from Teaneck now looks the part of just another unassuming student on Drew University's leafy campus — until someone recognizes him as Brian Smash Williams, the Texas high school football player he is best known for portraying for three seasons."
  83. Rohan, Virginia. "From TV football series to college to TV football series", The Record, July 17, 2012. Accessed December 19, 2013. "Playing Brian 'Smash' Williams in the small-screen "Friday Night Lights" was a breakout role for Teaneck-bred actor Gaius Charles."
  84. Ouzounian, Richard, Richard. "Toxic Avenger found his bard in Bon Jovi: Band's David Bryan just wants people to sing the songs he writes", Toronto Star, December 6, 2009. Accessed December 6, 2009. "He got a crash course in how to do it when he met up with Joe DiPietro, another Jersey boy (this one from Teaneck)."
  85. Gliatto, Tom; and O'Neill Anne-Marie. "Grease Is the Word: Twenty Years Later, the Stars Are Still True to Their School", People, April 13, 1998. Accessed September 13, 2011. "'I always felt Jan was the person most like the audience,' says Jamie Donnelly, 50, who dyed her prematurely gray hair to play the pigtailed Pink Lady. 'She wasn't as cool as the other ones.' The Teaneck, N.J., native now lives in La Canada, Calif., with her husband, screenwriter Stephen Foreman, son Sevi, 10, and daughter Madden Rose, 8."
  86. [Alvin Klein|Klein, Alvin]
  87. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/81438.html "The Leading Men: Hunter Green"
  88. Savio, Anita. "TV or no TV? No question in her mind", Latino Leaders: The National Magazine of the Successful American Latino, April–May 2002. Accessed January 8, 2008. "It has been rising since she was a teenager. Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, Galan immigrated with her family to Teaneck, New Jersey, when she was two."
  89. Staff. "Many Homes Are Sold In Teaneck Section; $3,000,000 Palisades Acreage Reported Acquired by Syndicate.", The New York Times, July 1, 1929. Accessed December 13, 2011.
  90. Taylor, Mildred. "Spiritual Comforts Take Root", History of Teaneck, pp. 98–103 via Teaneck Public Library. Accessed December 13, 2011. "Many good people came to live in the township, among them Ferde Grofe, composer of The Grand Canyon Suite and other fine music. The senior John Gambling of Radio Station WOR lived in Teaneck with his wife and his son John, who now heads the program that keeps the area posted each morning. Jim Bishop, syndicated columnist, built a fine home in Teaneck."
  91. Foster, Allen. "NJ Celebs Share their Favorite Romantic Comedy Picks – Part Two", Best of New Jersey, February 13, 2018. Accessed January 20, 2020. "Lee Garlington – Connection to New Jersey: Born in Teaneck."
  92. Levin, Jay. Susan Aviner, child star and Teaneck businesswoman, at 62", The Record, December 19, 2011. Accessed December 20, 2011. "Susan Aviner of Teaneck, who as button-cute, blond-haired Susan Gordon shared the screen with the likes of Danny Kaye, Ed Wynn and Ronald Reagan, has died."
  93. Zayas, Javier. "'Wakko Yaks: A Conversation with Jess Harnell' by Javier Zayas", Fulle Circle Magazine, April 17, 2015. Accessed June 17, 2015. "Javier Zayas: So you were born in Teaneck, New Jersey? Jess Harnell: Actually it was Englewood Hospital, but right near Teaneck and that's where I lived so we'll stick with that."
  94. Di Lauro, Janet. "7 Things to Know About General Hospital Star Gavin Houston", Soap Hub, June 8, 2023. Accessed June 8, 2023. "Houston, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, admits he misses his East Coast pals but has acclimated to life in Los Angeles."
  95. Vincent, Stuart. "THE Comic's Comic So you want jokes? Jay Jason's got a million of 'em. And in the Catskills, most of them still work.", Newsday, October 5, 1992. Accessed March 18, 2012. "Jay Jason is still there, commuting to the Catskills from his home in Teaneck, NJ, where he and Lynn, his wife of 44 years, raised two children."
  96. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/491161442/ "Has Play Role"
  97. Mushinske, Joram. "Behind The Curtain; Stage Actress Ilana Levine celebrates live performance in her podcast", (201) magazine, December 2020. Accessed January 4, 2021. "Grew up in: Teaneck... Education: Teaneck High School, Fordham University"
  98. https://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20060929/wk_cover29_side.art.htm About the executive producers of ‘Lost'
  99. Lumenick, Lou. "Leonard Maltin's Reel-Life Story – Movie Maven Went From Teaneck To Hollywood", The Record, October 17, 1994. Accessed December 21, 2009. "Leonard Maltin was a so-so student. 'I was the only student in the history of Teaneck High School to fail a take-home, open-book exam,' he says with a mixture of pride and embarrassment."
  100. [Jennifer Dunning|Dunning, Jennifer]
  101. http://www.bobmcgrath.com/mcgrath.htm Bob McGrath Biography
  102. Staff. "Teaneck, N.J. Native Julianne Michelle Discusses Upcoming Movies; Her New Film Opens In 3D On Wednesday", WCBS-TV, July 21, 2013. Accessed November 17, 2014. "Local actress Julianne Michelle is starring alongside Mischa Barton and Rebecca De Mornay in a new horror movie coming to theaters this week. Michelle is a Teaneck, N.J. native and has attended Cornell, Columbia and Marymount Manhattan College."
  103. Palmer, Joanne. "'Yiddish Soul': Zalmen Mlotek’s third annual Jewish roots concert to play in Central Park this week", Jewish Standard, June 8, 2017. Accessed February 26, 2018. "It’s produced by the Folksbiene, which is headed by musician, Yiddishist, musicologist, and impresario Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck"
  104. http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/201/Susan+Morrow/register.php Susan Morrow
  105. Grahnke, Lon. "The full Nelson: TV `Biography' shows complex sitcom family", Chicago Sun-Times, June 19, 1998. Accessed June 16, 2014. "The son of Swedish immigrants, Ozzie was an Eagle Scout at 13. He grew up in Teaneck, N.J., with a strong sense of family values."
  106. Via Associated press. "Singing idol Ricky Nelson, six others die in plane crash", Boca Raton News, January 1, 1986. Accessed December 6, 2009. "Nelson was born Eric Hilliard Nelson in Teaneck, N.J., on May 8, 1940."
  107. Rohan, Virginia. "Teaneck teen actor lands his dream role", The Record, February 2, 2012. Accessed February 3, 2012.
  108. [Alvin Klein|Klein, Alvin]
  109. Pignataro, Mike. "Teaneck Man to Host Daily Program on FOX Business Network; 'Making Money With Charles Payne' will explore the top headlines of the day and take an insider's look at the next day's money makers.", Teaneck Patch, May 31, 2014. Accessed November 5, 2014.
  110. Kuperinsky, Amy. "Meet Ghosts star Danielle Pinnock. How Jersey’s joyful spirit is making people laugh all pandemic long.", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 7, 2021. Accessed December 22, 2021. "Growing up in Teaneck, Pinnock earned a scholarship to Saddle River Day School, where she became a regular on the stage."
  111. Phelps, Shirelle; and Oblender, David G. "Randall Pinkston", Contemporary Black Biography, p. 129. Gale Research, 2000. . Accessed August 16, 2011. "He and his wife, Patricia McLain, and their daughter and two stepdaughters, live in Teaneck, New Jersey."
  112. Brozan, Nadine. Dana Reeve, Devoted Caretaker and Advocate, Is Dead at 44, The New York Times, March 8, 2006. Accessed August 6, 2018. "Ms. Reeve was born in 1961 in Teaneck, N.J., one of three daughters of Dr. Charles Morosini and Helen Morosini, who died of ovarian cancer early last year."
  113. Staff. "Obituaries", St. Petersburg Times, February 17, 1997. Accessed February 2, 2011. "Mr. Ridgely, a native of Teaneck, N.J., began as a cabaret entertainer. He appeared in television shows such as Get Smart, Sea Hunt and Coach."
  114. Staff. "Robert Ridgely, 65, Film and TV Actor", The New York Times, February 16, 1997. Accessed December 4, 2013. "Mr. Ridgely, a native of Teaneck, N.J., began as a cabaret entertainer."
  115. Beckerman, Jim. "A play about ex-cons, played by themselves", The Record, July 6, 2008. Accessed January 21, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "That's the combined prison time of the four ex-convicts who play themselves in this unique off-Broadway play, conceived and directed by Bergen County native David Rothenberg.... Rothenberg, who grew up in Ridgefield Park and Teaneck (Teaneck High School, class of 1951), began his career as a part-time sports writer for The Record."
  116. [Gary Rosenblatt|Rosenblatt, Gary]
  117. Baranauckas, Carla. "From Onstage to Offstage", The New York Times, September 30, 2006. Accessed September 13, 2022. "Ms. Scott, who is married and has a grown son, lives in Teaneck."
  118. Hirsch, Lynda. "Soaps", Toledo Blade, April 7, 1992. Accessed December 23, 2013. "Six-foot Matt Servitto was born in Teaneck, N.J., but grew up in Detroit."
  119. Longsdorf, Amy. "Cameraman always has eye on Jersey roots", The Record, June 1, 2009. Accessed December 19, 2013. "It was on a Teaneck High School class trip to Paris that Lawrence Sher discovered his life's passion. Before he left home, Sher's father insisted he take along a 35mm camera to capture the sights."
  120. [Alvin Klein|Klein, Alvin]
  121. Elkin, Michael. "Of 'Glee' I Sing: Okay, Josh Sussman can't carry a tune, but maybe a series?", Jewish Exponent, June 11, 2009. Accessed December 23, 2013. "What about it, Josh? Okay, you can't carry a tune, but maybe a series? Is this resurging career revenge of the nerds? 'Well, I wasn't the most popular kid in high school,' he recalls of the taunts he took back in Teaneck, N.J."
  122. https://www.playbill.com/person/bill-timoney-vault-0000125030 Bill Timoney
  123. Staff ."Judy Tyler Dies As Cars Collide; Actress and Husband Killed by Crash in Wyoming-- Was on 'Howdy Doody'", The New York Times, July 5, 1957. Accessed August 4, 2018.
  124. http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/index.ssf?/sopranos/stories/0918artie.html Actor behind Artie Bucco shows another side
  125. Feather, Leonard. "Jazz: Nat Unfurls the Adderley Banner", Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1976. Accessed August 16, 2011. "For several months Nat commuted between his Teaneck N.J home and California where he helped his sister-in-law singer-actress Olga James..."
  126. Stewart, Zan. "Born to swing: Nat Adderley Jr. returns to his roots", The Star-Ledger, September 10, 2009. Accessed September 10, 2009. "The 54-year-old pianist was born in Quincy, Fla., but grew up in Teaneck from age 5."
  127. http://www.hipwax.com/music/latin_rb.html Ray Barretto
  128. http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0509,levy,61632,22.html Buried Love: From sipping iced tea and playing Al Green to imagining you're watching Ricky beat Lucy
  129. Staff. "Teaneck and Englewood native Regina Belle is thankful of her Bergen roots", (201) magazine, August 31, 2012. Accessed June 17, 2016. "Belle's brother, Bernard Belle, who is a producer, writer and musician, lives in Teaneck."
  130. Staff. "Morris Day and The Time with Guest Regina Belle Play NJ's bergenPAC, 9/15", BroadwayWorld.com, September 7, 2012. Accessed June 18, 2016. "Morris Day and The Time with special guest and Teaneck's own, Regina Belle, a favorite contemporary will be at The Bergen Performance Arts Center at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey."
  131. Garcia, Chris. "Frenzied Founder", Austin American-Statesman, March 12, 2006. Accessed October 27, 2010. "Growing up in the suburb of Teaneck NJ he loved to read literature history and comic books."
  132. Osterheldt, Jenee. "SoundsGood answers the call of the road", The Kansas City Star, September 1, 2005. Accessed January 21, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Gamby met Miles Bonny at the University of Kansas in 1999. Their love of jazz connected them and their mutual appreciation of music sealed the deal. That next summer Bonny went home to Teaneck, N.J., got an MPC player and used his dad’s jazz collection to make beats."
  133. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930100957/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810821,00.html Teen Commandments
  134. http://www.nj.com/greatday/stories/more.html The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats
  135. Zezima, Katie; and Chase, Randall. "Innovative jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, of Teaneck, dies at 80", The Record, February 11, 2013. Accessed February 11, 2013. "Byrd, a longtime resident of Teaneck, N.J., was a distinguished scholar at William Paterson University and twice served as an artist-in-residence at Delaware State University."
  136. Ehrlich, Dimitri. "Cakes Da Killa: Party of One", Out, April 9, 2013. Accessed August 8, 2019. "Born and raised in Teaneck, N.J., a small, leafy suburb a few miles from Manhattan, Cakes started rapping in high school."
  137. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1348583/Fugazi Fugazi
  138. Garcia, Alfa. "With a song in his heart for Teaneck: Native son returns to pay tribute", The Record, May 14, 2009. "For Gordon Chambers, returning to Teaneck to perform is more than just a homecoming; it's a chance to pay tribute to the town that helped him on the road to becoming an award-winning songwriter and performer. 'Teaneck is the place where I had all my musical training,' says Chambers, who was born in the Bronx and moved to Teaneck in 1977. As a student at Teaneck High School, Chambers took up trumpet and piano and joined a high school 16-piece cover band called New Progressions."
  139. Lustig, Jay. "New Jersey musician kicks off festival paying tribute to African-American culture", The Star-Ledger, February 26, 2009. Accessed September 13, 2011. "'Once we started talking about gospel we were like, You know what, we really need to do a whole other show with that,' says Chew, a New York City native who moved to Teaneck 11 years ago."
  140. Staff. "Happy Birthday To New Rochelle's Graham Clarke", New Rochelle Daily Voice, July 11, 2014. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Clarke, a long time New Rochelle resident, turns 44 on Friday. The musician, songwriter, arranger, and entertainer was born July 11, 1970 in Teaneck, N.J."
  141. Levin, Jay. "Brenda Miller Cooper, 92; opera singer from Teaneck", The Record, April 8, 2008. Accessed April 2, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Brenda Miller Cooper of Teaneck, a Juilliard-trained opera singer who embarked on a career as a music teacher and mentor after leaving the stage, died Thursday. She was 92."
  142. Strauss, Neil. "Johnny Copeland, 60, Who Sang Texas Blues and Played Guitar", The New York Times, June 4, 1997. Accessed March 18, 2012. "Johnny Copeland, one of the foremost Texas blues singers and guitarists of the 70s and 80s, died yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He was 60 and lived in Teaneck, N.J."
  143. Pinto, Fausto Giovanny. "The hip-hop homes of Bergen County", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2016. Accessed July 30, 2019. "DMX – Teaneck: The Ruff Ryder rapper and sometimes actor faced charges of animal cruelty after police found 13 pit bulls at his Teaneck home in 1999."
  144. Domingo, Placido; and Matheopoulos, Helena. My Operatic Roles, p. 16. Baskerville Publishers, Inc., 2000. . Accessed June 16, 2014. ""After singing 280 performances of 11 role, the Domingos left Tel Aviv in the summer of 1965, with Marta pregnant with their first son Placi, to settle in New York – or rather, the New Jersey suburb of Teaneck."
  145. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EB034431C3BCC19&p_docnum=10&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=I5CO5CYTMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Domingo: Iron man of opera"
  146. Dobnik, Verena via Associated Press. "The Three Tenors return in drag for Domingo", Newsday, September 28, 2008. Accessed September 29, 2008. "Of Domingo's 126 career roles, he sang 45 at the Met since his debut on Sept. 28 in 1968. On that night, he drove himself from home in Teaneck, N.J., warming up in the car at the top of his lungs while a nearby motorist laughed. 'I asked him, 'Where are you going?', and he said, 'the Met.' And I said, 'Don't laugh, you are going to be hearing me.'"
  147. Adler, David R. "Ray Drummond", Jazz Times, April 2004. Accessed September 21, 2011. "As for Drummond's nonvirtual lair, it's in Teaneck, N.J.-a modest house he's inhabited for 23 years with his wife, Susan, and his daughter, Maya, now 24. (That is Maya, age nine or so, on the cover of Drummond's Maya's Dance album.)"
  148. Sheff, David. "Jackie Deshannon Wrote the Tune but Randy Edelman Put a Little Love in Her Heart", People, May 5, 1980. Accessed September 27, 2011. "Edelman, in fact, was scarcely 22, just out of Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music and still living part-time in Teaneck, N.J. with his parents (an accountant and a first-grade teacher)."
  149. Seidel, Mitchell. "Jon Faddis", JazzTimes. October 2006. Accessed May 9, 2011. "...it's not just the food that draws trumpeter Jon Faddis from his nearby Teaneck home. It's also the memories, a clue to which one can find near the front of the store [Baumgart's in Englewood, NJ], where you can see the requisite handful of autographed celebrity photos. Among them is one from Dizzy Gillespie." "Faddis moved to Teaneck in 1989..."
  150. Garcia, Alfa. "Article: Celebrating the arts", The Record, January 18, 2008. Accessed February 15, 2010.
  151. Spelling, Ian. "Ours lead singer Jimmy Gnecco will perform in Manhattan", The Record, May 20, 2010. Accessed November 25, 2019. "Gnecco – who was born in Teaneck, raised in Ridgefield Park and lives in Bogota — plays every instrument on the album, which includes such songs as 'Rest Your Soul,' 'Take a Chance,' 'Mystery' and the title track."
  152. Reich, Ronni. "Teaneck's Christine Goerke is shaking the opera rafters and loving it", The Star-Ledger, June 16, 2014. Accessed June 16, 2014. "Soprano Christine Goerke of Teaneck, in her practice room at home where a grand piano and opera DVDs share space with her daughters' framed crayon drawings."
  153. Staff. "Obituaries", St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 1998. Accessed February 2, 2011. "Walter Gold 70 a songwriter and music producer who wrote songs as Wally Gold died June 7 in Teaneck N.J."
  154. Ervolino, Bill. "Ervolino: Queen of teen angst, Lesley Gore, struck universal chord", The Record, February 16, 2015. Accessed June 18, 2016. "The Brooklyn-born Gore, who grew up in Tenafly and Teaneck and who died on Monday at 68, spent most of the '60s in a vale of tears that began in 1963 with 'It's My Party' on the Mercury label, followed, in quick succession, by 'Judy's Turn to Cry', 'Cry Me a River,' 'Cry and You Cry Alone,' 'Just Let Me Cry,' 'No More Tears Left to Cry' and, of course, 'Cry.'"
  155. [Robert McG. Thomas Jr.|Thomas Jr., Robert McG.]
  156. https://web.archive.org/web/20101027080252/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743165,00.html Friday on His Own
  157. Wilson, John S. "Jazz Pianist Sees the Stardom at End of Tunnel", The New York Times, June 1, 1975. Accessed June 28, 2019. "Then last June, the Thad Jones‐Mel Lewis Band, which plays every Monday night at the Village Vanguard in New York, suddenly lost its pianist, Roland Hanna of Teaneck, who left to form his own group."
  158. [Joe Harnell|Harnell, Joe]
  159. http://www.depanorama.net/dems/012a.htm Sad News
  160. Wilner, Paul. "Isley Brothers: A Family Affair", The New York Times, March 13, 1977. Accessed September 18, 2011. "When Sallye Isley moved her brood of children from Cincinnati to Englewood in the summer of 1959, she was participating in a show-business phenomenon.... While their older brothers toured America, the younger Isley boys enrolled successively in Englewood Junior High and Dwight Morrow High School.... Right now, the brothers reside near enough to each other to keep in close touch. Ronald lives in Teaneck, Kelly Jr. in Alpine, Rudolph in Haworth and Ernie in Englewood."
  161. Brown, Shaylah. "For the Love of Them; Englewood, Teaneck rename streets for the Isley Brothers", The Record, June 25, 2021. Accessed August 4, 2022. "The family lived in Englewood, and Ronald and Rudolph Isley eventually moved to Teaneck. Their record label, T-Neck Records, named for the town, owns one of their greatest hits, 'It’s Your thing, Do What You Wanna Do.'"
  162. Barkley, Elizabeth Isley. One Isley Brother's Daughter, p. 30. Xlibris Corporation, 2011. . Accessed November 20, 2011. "My father eventually bought a house in Teaneck, New Jersey, where we lived for ten years. Teaneck, New Jersey, in the sixties was a relatively quiet white community."
  163. [Ben Ratliff|Ratliff, Ben]
  164. Staff. "Moe Jaffe, Composer, Dead; Wrote 'Gypsy in My Soul'", The New York Times, December 4, 1972. Accessed September 21, 2011. "Moe Jaffe, songwriter and lyricist, died at a nursing home here yesterday. He was 71 years old and lived at 1123 Magnolia Road, Teaneck."
  165. Consoli, Jim. "Teaneck Singer Targeted, Cops Say – Jodeci Member Robbed Of Jewelry", The Record, July 28, 1993. Accessed September 21, 2011. "Three men who threatened to murder a member of the rhythm-and-blues group Jodeci before escaping with $150,000 in jewelry from his Teaneck house had targeted the popular singer for robbery, police said Tuesday. "
  166. http://www.trombone.org/articles/library/jjjohnson-int-2.asp An Interview with J.J. Johnson
  167. http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/kevin-jonas/biography Kevin Jonas Biography
  168. Wilson, John S. "Sound of Music in Teaneck Is Jazz", The New York Times, August 18, 1974. Accessed March 25, 2020. "The original purpose of the band was simply to provide young musicians in the area with an opportunity to rehearse big‐band arrangements and, possibly, to take advantage of the presence in Teaneck of such professional jazz musicians as McCoy Tyner and Roland Hanna, pianists; Rudy Collins and Eddie Locke, drummers; Sam Jones, a bassist, and Al Gafa, a guitarist. All took part in what are known as 'workshop situations.'"
  169. White, La-Faitha. "Bruce Jones: Growing Up With Jazz", All About Jazz, January 12, 2020. Accessed March 25, 2020. "'We moved to Teaneck, New Jersey while I was still in school. Teaneck, for some reason was the center for a lot of artists back then, recalls Jones. Yusef Lateef lived on my block, Duke Pearson lived directly across the street. Roland Hanna, McCoy Tyner, and Milt Jackson all lived around the corner. Sam Jones, the bassist, and Ray Barretto lived around the corner as well, these are just the ones that I can think of on top of my head. It was an interesting confluence of things that led to all of those brilliant artists to finding Teaneck and making it their home for awhile. A really interesting dynamic,' recalls Jones."
  170. Park, Eunnie. "Armor for Sleep's dream is nearing reality", The Record, November 6, 2007. Accessed December 19, 2013.
  171. Valdes, Alisa. "On The Beat How Proyecto Uno Is Working To Be The Next Big Thing; Sidebar It's Frenetic, And Delicious", The Boston Globe, February 25, 1996. Accessed September 19, 2008. "Magic Juan, 24, a native of Teaneck, was born to Dominican parents."
  172. Sullivan, Ronald. "Ulysses Kay, Prolific Composer And Educator, Is Dead at 78", The New York Times, May 23, 1995. Accessed September 21, 2011. "Ulysses Kay, a professor of music and a prolific composer of five operas, 20 large orchestral works and scores of choral, chamber and film compositions, died on Saturday in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. He was 78 and lived in Teaneck, N.J. The cause was Parkinson's disease, his family said."
  173. Johnson, Paul H. "A Soulful Song Among Neighbors", The Record, December 18, 1997. "King, who has lived in Teaneck since the late 1960s, staged a rare public performance Tuesday night in The township's municipal building."
  174. Rohan, Virginia. "The seeds of 'Grey Gardens' songs – Lyricist Michael Korie points to Teaneck upbringing", The Record, June 6, 2007. Accessed December 23, 2013. "Michael Korie, the Tony-nominated Grey Gardens lyricist, leads a visitor to a room in the Teaneck home where he grew up... This place, the Indicks' home since 1963, and these parents had a profound influence on Korie (his middle name, which he uses professionally), a successful lyricist who has also done several operas."
  175. Beckerman, Jim. "Met Opera regular from Teaneck gets a new career in HBO series ", The Record, May 30, 2010. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Second banana, to be exact — a role that Teaneck's Anthony Laciura has spent a lifetime perfecting."
  176. Beckerman, Jim. "A classical relief effort; Opera stars in Katrina benefit.", The Record, October 14, 2005. "'My father used to say he heard Caruso at the French Opera House,' says Laciura, a Teaneck resident who has sung tenor for 24 years with the Metropolitan Opera in New York."
  177. via Associated Press. "Composer Named Dean Of Yale Music School", The New York Times, April 15, 1989. Accessed October 24, 2011. "Mr. Laderman, 64 years old, a resident of Teaneck, N.J., and of Woods Hole, Mass., is chairman of the American Composers' Orchestra and president of the National Music Council."
  178. Reney, Tom. "Yusef Lateef, R.I.P.", New England Public Radio, December 25, 2013. Accessed March 25, 2020. "Posted below is the Swiss-produced documentary Brother Yusef.... He recalls John Coltrane’s visit to his Teaneck, NJ home in 1968 when Trane was looking to move to the area."
  179. Heller, Karen. "Campaigning For Queen To Lil' Kim, The Self-Dubbed Queen Bee, The Election Is Over, And It's A Landslide Victory. Biggie Smalls' Former Consort Is Notorious In Her Own Right Now.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 22, 2000. Accessed July 6, 2008. "For a while, Kim lived in Teaneck, NJ, with Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, and half his cremains in a mahogany box that she kissed every day."
  180. LaGorce, Tammy. "For Longtime Jazz Singer, Latest Success Is Sweet", The New York Times, April 6, 2008. Accessed September 21, 2011. "She sang in the Tony Award winning musical City of Angels from 1989 to 1992 before moving to Teaneck in 1998 with her husband, the jazz guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, and their daughters Sofia, now 12, and Anna, now 9."
  181. McCabe, Bret. "Teen Scream: Baltimore's Mario climbs the pop charts", Baltimore City Paper. Accessed March 26, 2009. "Mario is always sure to mention Charm City in interviews. And though he moved to Teaneck, N.J., about a year ago, his family still lives here and he still calls Baltimore home."
  182. Petrick, John; and Levin, Jay. "Rapper Big Bank Hank of Englewood-based Sugar Hill Gang dies at age 57", The Record, November 11, 2014. Accessed November 12, 2014. "Big Bank Hank and two other young rappers, Englewood’s Mike 'Wonder Mike' Wright and Teaneck’s Guy 'Master Gee' O’Brien, were discovered by Robinson’s mother, Sylvia, a founder of Sugar Hill Records in the 1970s."
  183. Seah, Daniel. "Elliot Mazer, digital recording pioneer and Neil young producer, dies at 79", MusicTech. Accessed February 10, 2021. "Born on 5 September 1941 in New York City, Mazer relocated with his family to Teaneck, New Jersey shortly after his birth, where he found his entrance into the world of music quite literally next door. Bob Weinstock, the Mazer family’s neighbour, was the owner of the jazz label Prestige Records and hired a 21-year-old Elliot to organise and deliver tapes to radio stations."
  184. Staff. "Songwriter is in the spotlight, at last, at 86", The Star-Ledger, February 19, 2009. Accessed September 13, 2011. "McCoy, 86 – an Arkansas native who moved to New York in 1942, and has been living in Teaneck since 1955 – will sing a few numbers at the end of it."
  185. via Associated Press. "Death Claims Hit Singer At Age of 41", Merced Sun-Star, June 16, 1972. "Clyde McPhatter, rhythm and blues singer in the early days of rock 'n' roll, died Thursday in the Bronx of an apparent heart attack, He was 41 years old and lived in Teaneck, N.J."
  186. via The Canadian Press, "Fortuitous timings helped singer", Leader-Post, June 12, 1984. Accessed October 22, 2011. "He moved to Teaneck, N.J., in 1976 so that he could commute to the Met where he has sung such roles as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and Schaunard in Franco Zeffirelli's 1981 production of La Boheme."
  187. Wulff, June. "A classic debut", The Boston Globe, December 15, 2008. Accessed May 9, 2011. "Melissa Morgan has been preparing for her recording debut since her childhood days in Teaneck N.J...."
  188. Marriott, Michel. "The Short Life of a Rap Star, Shadowed by Many Troubles", The New York Times, March 17, 1997. Accessed June 16, 2014. "Last summer, Mr. Wallace was arrested at his home in Teaneck, N.J., after the police found 50 grams of marijuana and four automatic weapons with laser sights, enlarged bullet clips and filed-off serial numbers."
  189. Jordan, Chris. "Drummer Bernard 'Pretty' Purdie has kept the time to your life", Asbury Park Press, October 4, 2013. Accessed October 5, 2013. "Purdie eventually moved to Jersey — Teaneck and Edison before settling in Springfield."
  190. https://web.archive.org/web/20080820080111/http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/living_legacy/reid.html "2005 Living Legacy Award Winner: Rufus Reid"
  191. Beckerman, Jim. "Ben-Hur flavors his jazz with Middle Eastern spice", The Record, July 17, 2005, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 23, 2006. Accessed November 29, 2017. "Luckily, pianist John Hicks, drummer Leroy Williams, percussionist Steve Kroon and celebrated Teaneck bassist Rufus Reid were happy to go where Ben-Hur led."
  192. Kourasanis, Jakam. "Richie Ranno (Starz) Interview", Medium, December 2, 2015. Accessed March 25, 2020. "[Q] Where were you raised? [A] I was born in the Bronx, New York City. My family moved to the NYC suburbs when I was — Teaneck, NJ."
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  194. Weidman, Rich. The Doors FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock, p. 32. Backbeat Books, 2011. . Accessed May 28, 2014. "Often referred to as the 'fifth Door,' Paul A. Rothchild was born on April 18, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and began his career as a producer on the Boston folk scene."
  195. Staff. "Ernie Royal, Trumpeter, 61; Played in Many Jazz Bands", The New York Times, March 18, 1983. Accessed September 21, 2011. "Ernie Royal, a trumpet player who was featured in a number of major jazz bands and who also played in the pit bands for several Broadway musicals, died of cancer Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital. Mr. Royal, who was 61 years old, lived in Teaneck, N.J."
  196. Keepnews, Peter. "Hilton Ruiz, 54, Pianist Fluent In Jazz and Latin Rhythms", The New York Times, June 7, 2006. Accessed November 4, 2007. "Hilton Ruiz, a versatile and prolific pianist equally at home in the worlds of modern jazz and Latin music, died yesterday in New Orleans. He was 54 and lived in Teaneck, N.J."
  197. http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/03/12/2008-03-12_bullets_pot_found_in_rappers_car.html "Bullets, pot found in rapper's car"
  198. Murrells, Joseph. Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s: An Illustrated Directory, p. 156. Batsford, 1984. . Accessed July 23, 2011. "Linda (real name Linda Joy Sampson) was born on 11 June 1945 in Queens, New York and has been performing as a singer since she was four. She moved to Teaneck, New Jersey when 11 and enrolled at the high school there."
  199. http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/filmtv/2002/mancini.html ASCAP Henry Mancini Award
  200. Petrucelli, Alan W. "Village Person looking forward to county fair", The Barnstable Patriot, July 17, 2008. Accessed September 21, 2011. "We chatted with the 54-year-old Simpson at his home in Teaneck, N.J., where he lives with his wife, Leslie, and daughter, Alayna."
  201. Leichman, Abigail. "Ashford and Simpson sing of wedded bliss", The Record, September 7, 2007. "'People tried to talk us out of songwriting, but we just kept doing it, and eventually we made it through,' said Simpson, whose brother, Village People lead singer Raymond Simpson, is a longtime Teaneck resident."
  202. Kennedy, Randy. "The Shorter, Faster, Cruder, Tinier TV Show", The New York Times Magazine, May 28, 2006. Accessed June 28, 2007. "But Sirulnick comes by his knowledge of hip-hop as honestly as his knowledge of television. Raised in Teaneck, N.J., he became obsessed with rap in junior high school when some of its first hits were starting to emerge from Sugar Hill Records in nearby Englewood."
  203. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930110251/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957579,00.html Throwing In the Crying Towel: Phoebe Snow beats the blues with a fine new album
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  205. Staff. "Shaker Heights: They're Rap's Top Women, But Are Salt 'N' Pepa Too Sexy For Their Own Good?", Entertainment Weekly, March 18, 1994. Accessed June 6, 2009. "The group's self-described little sister, Roper lives in Teaneck, N.J., with Christenese, 1, the child she had with ex-boyfriend Kenny Anderson of the New Jersey Nets."
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