Fort Lee (New Jersey)

Fort Lee (New Jersey), borough, Bergen County, northeastern New Jersey, on the Palisades above the Hudson River, linked by the George Washington Bridge to New York City; incorporated 1904. It is chiefly residential. A park here commemorates the fort (no longer standing), named for General Charles Lee, which was used for a short time by the patriots during the American Revolution before being abandoned to the British in November 1776. From about 1910 to the mid-1920s, Fort Lee was a major center of the motion picture industry. Population 32,449 (1980); 31,997 (1990); 35,461 (2000); 37,175 (2005 estimate).