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() is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and is a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 39,260. The Census Bureau's 2007 population estimate for the township is 39,019.
Teaneck was the second-most populous municipality in Bergen County (as of the 2000 Census), and lies at the crossroads of Interstate 95 and the eastern terminus of Interstate 80. In 1965, Teaneck became the first community in the nation with a white majority to voluntarily desegregate its public schools, after the Board of Education approved the plan by a 7-2 vote on May 13, 1964.
Teaneck was created on February 19, 1895 by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature. Teaneck was formed from portions of Englewood Township and Ridgefield Township, both of which are now defunct (despite existing municipalities with similar names), along with portions of Bogota and Leonia. Independence followed the results of a referendum held on January 14, 1895, in which voters favored incorporation by a 46-7 margin. To assuage the concerns of Englewood Township's leaders, the new municipality was formed as a township, rather than succumbing to the borough craze sweeping across Bergen County at the time. On May 3, 1921 and on June 1, 1926, portions of what had been Teaneck were transferred to Overpeck Township.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (3.20%) is water.
Teaneck is bordered to the West by River Edge and Hackensack which lie across the Hackensack River, to the North by New Milford and Bergenfield, to the East by Englewood and Leonia, and to the South by Ridgefield Park and Bogota.
Teaneck has 23 municipally owned parks, of which 14 are developed. Overpeck County Park, along the shores of Overpeck Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River, is more than 8,000 acres (32 km
) in size, of which about 500 were donated by Teaneck, and which is also in portions of Englewood, Leonia, Ridgefield Park and Palisades Park.