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- A Hackensack resident for over 45 years, Mayor John Labrosse was first elected to the City Council in 2009 and has served as Mayor since 2013.
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A Hackensack resident for over 45 years, Mayor John Labrosse was first elected to the City Council in 2009 and has served as Mayor since 2013.
By the mid-1600s, the British began to arrive in the Hackensack area. From then until the Revolutionary War’s end in 1783, Hackensack was an area of unrest. Upon the War’s end, Hackensack residents began organizing themselves into a functioning government.
In the several decades in which the City has used the Municipal Manager form of government, Hackensack has had only nine City Managers. As of 2024 [update] , the mayor of the City of Hackensack is John P. Labrosse Jr., whose term of office as mayor ends June 30, 2025, along with those of all other councilmembers.
Jan 5, 2018 · The Zisa machine that controlled the Hackensack council from the early 1970s was tossed out by voters five years ago. But the family’s most significant power broker -- Charles “Ken” Zisa –...
Hackensack has been around for more than three centuries. It started out Lenni Lenape Native American and then the Dutch showed up in 1693. About our name: It means, literally, “mouth of a river,” in the language of the Achkinheshcky tribe.
Actually, the name Hackensack only became the official moniker in 1921. When Dutch and French settlers arrived in 1664, they decided against the original Indian name, Hacquinsacq, and instead called the region “New Barbadoes.” But the old roots were hard to ignore.
Under Hackensack’s form of government, the City Manager is the Chief Executive and Administrative Officer. The Mayor and Council establish policies for operations within the City, and it is the Manager’s responsibility to execute all laws and ordinances established by the governing body.
