With three children under 5, and a fourth on the way, Elizabeth and Alan Mitrani were more than ready to move out of their one-bedroom apartment in New York City, where their living room doubled as a nursery.
“We were busting at the seams,” said Dr. Mitrani, a dentist, describing the Upper West Side rental that her family left in 2014 for a new five-bedroom house in Englewood, N.J., that she and Mr. Mitrani bought for $900,000. Since then, the family has grown attached to this much smaller city on the other side of the George Washington Bridge, where Dr. Mitrani, 41, said her children ice skate, play soccer and “walk down the hill to buy ice cream.”
2020 census, 32.5 percent of the city’s 29,308 residents identified as white, 28.8 percent as Hispanic, 26.6 percent as Black and 9.8 percent as Asian.
transcontinental-customer-placed call was made in November 1951, when M. Leslie Denning, Englewood’s mayor, picked up the phone and dialed 10 digits, waiting 18 seconds until Frank Osborne, the mayor of Alameda, Calif., picked up.
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