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Former Site Of Hackensack YMCA Approved For 'Landmark Project' Former Site Of Hackensack YMCA Approved For 'Landmark Project'
Former Site Of Hackensack YMCA Approved For 'Landmark Project' The revitalization of Hackensack's downtown continues — with the approval of a high-end apartment building approved at the site of the shuttered Hackensack YMCA. The City Planning Board approved a 254-unit high-end residential building with a 6,000 square foot public plaza at 360 Main Street, officials announced on Wednesday, May 15. The building has been vacant since the YMCA closed in 2022 after 90 years. Once fully leased, the "landmark project" is expected to generate more than $1 million in annual tax revenue on a formerly tax-exempt site, while creating an estimated 1,000 constr…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Hackensack YMCA Leaving After 90 Years Hackensack YMCA Leaving After 90 Years
Hackensack YMCA Leaving After 90 Years The Hackensack YMCA will be leaving its Main Street property after 90 years. Financial decline in the last 10 years prompted the Greater Bergen County YMCA to sell the property, it said in a statement released last week. A new location will open in New Milford on April 1. Meanwhile, the Hackensack building is under contract for sale with a development partner. The Y announced in October 2019 that it was working with a local real estate firm, NAI Hanson, to sell the building and identify a new location for a full-facility YMCA. Countless Bergen County residents were raised learning to…

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by Cecilia Levine
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POLICE: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA POLICE: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA
Police: Deli Worker Sexually Assaulted 6 Kids At Hackensack YMCA A Paramus supermarket worker living at the Hackensack YMCA was arrested Friday and charged with sexually assaulting six children between the ages of 6 and 9 there last week. Hackensack police Friday morning arrested Timothy Smith, 42 , who been living at the Main Street Y, on sexual assault and child endangerment charges, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. The incidents all occurred at the Y last Friday and were reported to city police the same day, he said. "With the assistance of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, the six victims...were interviewed during the course of the next over t…

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by Jerry DeMarco