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East Rutherford hosted Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium, making it the smallest city ever to host a Super Bowl, with a population of around 10,000. The stadium was built at a stated cost of $1.6 billion and is home to both the New York Giants and New York Jets of the NFL.
Yes. MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford will host eight matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, including the final. For the tournament, the venue will be designated New York/New Jersey Stadium, making East Rutherford the smallest host of a World Cup final.
The Borough of East Rutherford was created on the 28th of March, 1894, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day. It was the second borough formed during the Boroughitis wave that produced 26 new boroughs in Bergen County in 1894 alone.
American Dream is a 3-million-square-foot shopping center and entertainment complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, ranking as the second largest shopping mall in the United States. It opened in October 2019 after more than a decade of delays and was constructed for an estimated $5 billion.
The Universal Oil Products Superfund Site is a stretch of land along Route 17 in East Rutherford designated by the EPA after industrial operations between 1930 and 1979 caused chemical seepage into surrounding soil, water, and marshlands. The EPA added the 75-acre plot to its National Priorities List in 1983, and cleanup efforts ran through 2006, removing more than 6,800 cubic yards of contaminated soil and treating approximately 5.6 million gallons of groundwater.
Martin Kilson, born in 1931, was the first Black academic appointed a full professor at Harvard University. Dick Vitale, born in 1939, is a sports broadcaster who attended and coached at East Rutherford High School. Henry Helstoski served as mayor from 1957 to 1965, and Harold C. Hollenbeck represented New Jersey in the US House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983.