Highways of Bergen County, New Jersey



Bergen County Road 55 is part of the old Newark-Hackensack Turnpike. In Hackensack, CR 55 is known as Polifly Road; this name also existed in Hasbrouck Heights at one time (Polifly was a neighborhood in today’s Wood-Ridge). Meadow Road in Rutherford (part of which is CR 32) and Schuyler Avenue in Lyndhurst and North Arlington (part of CR 11) were also part of the old turnpike.

When the state legislated its highway system in 1927, CR 55 became signed as part of NJ 2, but by 1931 the state had completed the southern section of the bypass that exists today (and has been NJ 17 since 1942).

From the 1950s until about 1963, the part of CR 55 south of NJ 17 was also designated CR 507. That designation was eventually switched to the road along the Passaic River.

Mile Street Name Feature (South to North)
0.00 CR 55 BEGINS, Rutherford Boro
0.00 Hackensack St (Erie Ave) [Meadow Rd] CR 32
0.01 Hackensack St Erie Railroad {underpass}
0.01 Entering East Rutherford Boro
0.14 Hackensack St Union Ave CR 34A

Hackensack Street looking south from Paterson Avenue.
0.52 Hackensack St Paterson Ave CR 14 {signal}
0.78 Hackensack St Hoboken Rd CR 14A {signal}
0.78 Entering Carlstadt Boro
1.28 Entering Wood-Ridge Boro
1.72 Hackensack St Moonachie Ave CR 36 {signal}
1.75 Hackensack St Columbia Blvd {signal}
1.92 Hackensack St Windsor Rd {signal}
2.05 Entering Hasbrouck Heights Boro
2.39 Terrace Ave Passaic Ave (CR 38)
2.73 Terrace Ave Franklin Ave {signal}
3.36 Terrace Ave Williams Ave, CR 40 {signal}
3.52 Terrace Ave US 46 {underpass}
3.64 Terrace Ave (Pasadena Ave) [NJ 17 Ramp] {signal}
3.69 Terrace Ave NJ 17 {overpass}
3.80 Terrace Ave Business entrance {signal}
3.81 Entering Hackensack City
3.93 Polifly Rd Bergen-Passaic Expwy I-80 {underpass}
3.97 Polifly Rd I-80 exit ramp {signal}
4.20 Polifly Rd Lodi Rd {signal}
4.55 Polifly Rd Essex St, CR 12 {signal}
4.55 Polifly Rd becomes 1 St
4.77 1 St Atlantic St
4.85 1 St Beech St

Hackensack High students are truly road scholars if they have classes above First Street!
4.88 1 St Hackensack HS {underpass}

The Susie Q railroad crosses the highway here.
5.05 1 St Susquehanna Railroad {underpass}
5.10 1 St Central Ave CR 44 {signal}
5.52 1st St Passaic St CR 62 {signal}

Northern terminus of CR 55. Note the sign for CR 62, also the Parkway trailblazer.
5.52 CR 55 ENDS, Hackensack City


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