197FredrickStreet

New construction

Paramus, New Jersey

Artist's rendering. Final home may differ.

The residence at 197 Fredrick Street

Seven bedrooms, a home office and seven and a half baths across approximately 7,780 square feet of finished living space, on a third-of-an-acre lot in Paramus, twenty-six minutes by car from the George Washington Bridge Bus Station.

The house opens on a grand two-story foyer with vaulted ceilings. The main level holds a great room with oversized windows and a double-sided gas fireplace, a private library, a formal dining room with an adjacent wet bar, a butler's pantry and a guest bedroom with a full bath. The chef's kitchen is built around two oversized islands, with European cabinetry and Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances.

Floors are 9.5-inch wide-plank white oak, and the custom woodwork carries the doors and moldings in the same wood tone for a built-in look. Outside, a modern stucco and wood-panel facade, Visioneer European windows that are almost all floor to ceiling, and oversized glass sliding doors to the backyard.

The house at golden hour, seen from the corner of the driveway

At a glance

Bedrooms: Seven, plus a home office
Bathrooms: Seven full, one half
Finished living area: Approximately 7,780 square feet
Upper level: Approximately 2,600 square feet, not counting areas open to below
Main level: Approximately 3,130 square feet
Finished lower level: Approximately 2,050 square feet, not counting the garage or mechanical room
Garage: Heated three-car garage, approximately 945 square feet
Lot: 14,669 square feet
Ceilings: Ten to twelve feet on the second floor; ten feet on the lower level
Foyer: Grand two-story foyer with vaulted ceilings
Great room: Oversized windows, double-sided gas fireplace
Kitchen: Two oversized islands, Taj Mahal countertops and backsplash, butler's pantry
Appliances: Sub-Zero refrigerator; Wolf range, wall oven and wall microwave; Cove dishwasher
Cabinetry: European
Flooring: 9.5-inch wide-plank white oak
Windows: Visioneer European, almost all floor to ceiling
Lower level: Home theater, recreation room with wet bar, fitness room, dry sauna and steam room, bedroom with full bath
Climate: Three-zone central air; radiant heated floors in every bathroom
Systems: Two tankless water heaters, 200-amp electrical service, integrated speakers on the main and lower levels
Outdoors: Paver patio and walkway, paver and asphalt driveway, gated fence, multi-zone in-ground irrigation, outdoor kitchen hookup, professional landscaping; optional pool package available
Warranty: Ten-year builder's warranty
Builder: Silverline
Municipality: Borough of Paramus, Bergen County

Front of the house in daylight, with white stucco, wood cladding and black-framed windows

Great room with a curved sofa, a sculptural pendant and a linear fireplace in a stone wall

A great room around a double-sided fireplace

Oversized windows on one side and a double-sided gas fireplace at its center, reached from a grand two-story foyer with vaulted ceilings.

The rest of the main level holds a private library, a formal dining room with an adjacent wet bar, and a guest bedroom with its own full bath. An integrated speaker system runs through the main and lower levels.

Great room from the entry, with stacked windows and the linear fireplace

Great room seen from the corner, with artwork and a tall plant

Stone fireplace wall rising to the ceiling

A chef's kitchen with two oversized islands

Two oversized islands, Taj Mahal countertops and backsplash, and European cabinetry. The appliances are a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Wolf range, wall oven and wall microwave, and a Cove dishwasher, with a butler's pantry with custom shelving alongside.

Kitchen with two waterfall islands, glass pendants and a view through to a floating stair

Kitchen seen straight on, with a glazed display cabinet to the right

Kitchen islands with upholstered counter stools

Wide view of the kitchen with glass-front upper cabinets

The second floor

Ceilings rise from ten to twelve feet, and the windows are almost all floor to ceiling.

Walk-in closets are fitted with custom built-ins and integrated lighting. The primary suite has its own spa bath.

Primary bedroom with a low bed, sheer curtains and a built-in bar at the far end

Oak bar with lit fluted-glass upper cabinets and a beverage cooler

Bedroom with an upholstered bed and two windows

Bedroom seen straight on, with artwork above the bed

The primary bath

A spa bath with a rain and body-massage shower system under precise thermostatic temperature control. Floors are radiant heated, as they are in every bathroom in the house.

Bath with a long floating vanity, a dressing stool and a freestanding tub by the window

Round soaking tub in front of a corner window

Bath with a glass shower enclosure and a freestanding tub

Theater, fitness and entertaining

Below the main floor, under ten-foot ceilings, the plan turns to recreation: a home theater, a recreation room with a wet bar, a fitness room, a dry sauna and a steam room, and a bedroom with its own full bath.

Home theater paneled in oak with a projection screen, floor-standing speakers and a fiber-optic star ceiling

Lower-level recreation room with a curved sofa, a billiards table and a stair beyond

The home theater sits alongside the recreation room, which has its own wet bar and space for a billiards table and a full lounge. The integrated speaker system extends to this level.

Fitness, sauna and steam

A fitness room with mirrored walls, with a dry sauna and a steam room on the same level.

Garage with a hexagonal LED ceiling grid, a reflective floor and a sports car

The garage

A heated three-car garage of approximately 945 square feet, with tinted glass-panel garage doors, smart openers, an EV charger and a marble-look reflective floor finish.

The developer

Silverline is a construction management and owner's representative company working in the creation and preservation of luxury residences.

The firm describes itself as vertically integrated, with end-to-end project management carried out in house from conception through completion. The house carries a ten-year builder's warranty.

Total value: $350 million
Experience in construction: 500,000 sq ft

Figures and quoted text are Silverline's own, as published by the developer.

In their words

Quality

“Silverline creates real estate for those who value impeccable design, superior craftsmanship, and the finest appointments. Each and every one of our developments embodies the true definition of quality, from customized finishes and thoughtful floor plans to the elevated offerings of the amenity programming.”

Choice

“True luxury is a matter of choice. The Silverline Choice is widely recognized as a unique value proposition allowing buyers to choose from a sophisticated selection of the finishes, design, and layouts to tailor homes to their individual tastes.”

Excellence

“Excellence comes from our commitment to working with talented professionals. We collaborate with world-renowned architects, designers, consultants, and amenity operators. Our in-house teams oversee every aspect, from conception to completion.”

Paramus

Bergen County, New Jersey

Farmland, then the busiest retail corridor in the state

Paramus sits in central Bergen County, eight miles by air from the George Washington Bridge, at the intersection of Routes 4 and 17. Within living memory it was farmland: in 1940 the borough counted roughly four thousand residents and ninety-four retail establishments.

What changed it was the bridge. The George Washington Bridge opened in 1931, postwar suburban growth followed, and in 1957 the state's first shopping center opened on Paramus farmland. Between 1948 and 1958 the borough's population nearly quadrupled and its retail establishments tripled.

The town that resulted is an unusual one: a dense commercial spine along two state highways, with quiet residential streets and four golf courses set behind it. Bergen County's Sunday closing laws, the last of their kind in New Jersey, still empty those highways one day a week.

Since 2024 it has also been a hospital town. The Valley Hospital moved from Ridgewood into a new facility on Valley Health Plaza, joining Bergen New Bridge Medical Center and Bergen Community College within the borough line.

1686

Origins and early settlement

The name is Lenape. The Borough of Paramus traces it to peramsepuss, rendered as “land of the wild turkeys” or “fertile fields where turkeys are found.” A metal turkey statue at Paramus Park commemorates the derivation. A second, less-supported reading translates the root as “pleasant stream.”

European land patents in the area were recorded by Jacob Epke Banta in 1686, Isaac Van Saun in 1695, and Albert Zabriskie in 1702, the last on land deeded to him by the Lenape. The Zabriskie family had arrived from Poland by way of a Dutch ship in 1662. Their holdings here, roughly two thousand acres, came to be known as the Paramus Patent.

Two of the family's houses survive as recorded historic structures: the Zabriskie Tenant House and the Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse. The Van Saun name survives too, attached to the county park that now occupies part of the old farm a mile from this address.

Sources: Borough of Paramus, Paramus History; National Register of Historic Places listings.

1778

The Revolutionary corridor

Paramus Road began as a Lenape trail and became, during the Revolution, a main line of movement for both British and American forces. The Library of Congress holds thirty letters George Washington wrote under the heading “Headquarters Paramus.”

Washington established headquarters here after the Battle of Monmouth in July 1778, and returned in December 1778, July 1780 and December 1780. In September 1780 some fourteen thousand American troops encamped on the Kinderkamack ridge; a historical marker records that Washington visited the site and drank from the spring there.

The Red Mill, built in 1745 and owned during the war by Jacob Zabriskie, is marked as the scene of repeated raids. Lafayette is recorded as stopping there during his farewell tour of America in 1824. The Old Spring Valley Burial Ground, laid out in the late 1700s, holds the graves of local militia members.

Sources: Borough of Paramus; Library of Congress; New Jersey Revolutionary War site markers.

1957

The first mall in New Jersey

Garden State Plaza opened on May 1, 1957, developed by R. H. Macy & Company on a hundred and ten acres of Paramus farmland at a cost of roughly twenty-six million dollars. It opened as an open-air center: a 340,000-square-foot Bamberger's and seventeen other retailers, with fifty-five hundred parking spaces. Seventy-five thousand shoppers came the first day.

By 1961 it was described as the largest mall in the world. Bergen Mall followed on Route 4. Between 1948 and 1958 the borough's population rose from six thousand to twenty-three thousand, its retail establishments from 111 to 319, and its annual retail sales roughly twentyfold.

Garden State Plaza today runs to 2,118,718 square feet of leasable space, which made it the sixteenth-largest mall in the United States as of 2022, and accounts for roughly a tenth of the borough's property tax revenue. About half of the tax base is retail.

Sources: Borough of Paramus; published histories of Garden State Plaza.

1969

The blue laws

New Jersey's Sunday closing laws descend from a statute of 1704, later codified in the 1798 Act to Suppress Vice and Immorality. The state Supreme Court upheld them in 1878; the United States Supreme Court upheld New Jersey's restrictions on the Sunday sale of clothing, furniture, appliances and building supplies in 1961.

A 1959 amendment let each county decide for itself. Bergen is the only one that has kept the laws. A countywide referendum to lift the retail ban failed by roughly two to one in November 1993.

Paramus adds its own. The borough's ordinance was first proposed in 1957, as the malls were going up and residents worried about Sunday traffic, and was formally adopted on May 14, 1969 as Ordinance No. 608, now Chapter 391 of the Borough Code. It closes most retail and office business on Sundays, with exceptions for prepared food, groceries and produce, milk, bread and baked goods, gasoline, newspapers and pharmacy, and an accommodation for Saturday-Sabbath observers.

The practical effect for a resident: the supermarkets and the pharmacy are open on a Sunday and the highways are not. It is the quietest day of the week in a town of four shopping malls.

Source: Borough of Paramus Code, Chapter 391 (Sunday Activities).

Locator map from 197 Fredrick Street southeast to the George Washington Bridge, the GWB Bus Station, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Newark Liberty Airport

Times and distances to Manhattan

Twenty-six minutes by car to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, and about an hour by NJ Transit to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

To the George Washington Bridge Bus Station

By car	26 min
NJ Transit 168, then the Route 4 JitneyDepart 6:03 am, arrive 6:49 am	46 min
NJ Transit 168, then the Route 4 JitneyDepart 6:15 am, arrive 7:01 am	46 min
NJ Transit 168, then 175Depart 6:03 am, arrive 6:58 am	55 min

To the Port Authority Bus Terminal

By car	35 min
NJ Transit 752, then 163Depart 6:35 am, arrive 7:35 am	1 hr
NJ Transit 168Depart 6:03 am, boarding at Forest Avenue at Ashley Place; arrive 7:15 am	1 hr 12 min

Straight-line distance

George Washington Bridge	8.2 mi
GWB Bus Station	8.8 mi
Port Authority Bus Terminal	13.1 mi
Newark Liberty International Airport	18.2 mi

Journey times as reported by Google Maps for a Monday departure at 6:00 am. Transit schedules and traffic vary; these figures are indicative, not guaranteed. The map is a locator diagram from Natural Earth public-domain data, not a survey document.

Living in Paramus

The everyday side of the borough: who to call, where to shop on a Sunday, which schools serve the town, and where to eat, play and walk.

The basics

Borough services, hospitals, libraries and the weekly market.

Borough HallMunicipal offices and the Department of Public Works, including residents' recycling and e-waste drop-off.1 Jockish Square · 201-265-2100
Police DepartmentNon-emergency 201-262-3400. Emergencies 911.1 Carlough Drive
Fire DepartmentAll-volunteer, roughly 130 members across four firehouses. The former Paramus Rescue Squad merged into the department as a fifth company in December 2025.1 West Jockish Square · 201-265-2100 x5560
Volunteer Ambulance CorpsParamus Volunteer Ambulance Corps.295 East Midland Avenue
The Valley HospitalRelocated from Ridgewood into a new Paramus facility in April 2024. Emergency department on site.4 Valley Health Plaza · 201-447-8000
Bergen New Bridge Medical CenterA second full hospital within the borough.230 East Ridgewood Avenue · 201-967-4000
Hackensack University Medical CenterIn neighboring Hackensack. Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center.30 Prospect Avenue, Hackensack
CityMD Paramus Rt. 4Urgent care. Weekdays 7am to 11pm, weekends 8am to 7pm.282 Route 4 East · 551-222-0800
Paramus Public LibraryOpen seven days in season, including Sunday afternoons.116 East Century Road · 201-599-1300
Charles E. Reid Branch LibraryThe borough's second library.239 West Midland Avenue · 201-444-4911
Post OfficeThe borough's USPS branch. PO boxes accessible around the clock.33 East Midland Avenue · 201-262-7635
Bergen Community CollegeThe county college's main campus, within the borough.400 Paramus Road
Recreation DepartmentSeasonal sports, classes and community events; maintains the borough parks and playgrounds.475 North Farview Avenue · 201-265-9321
Paramus PoolMunicipal pool complex with lessons and seasonal events. Memberships for residents and non-residents.Van Binsberger Boulevard · 201-447-2413
Farmers MarketWednesdays, 2 to 7pm, May through October, at Petruska Memorial Park.475 North Farview Avenue

Addresses and telephone numbers as published by the borough and by each institution at the time of writing. Hours change seasonally; confirm before visiting.

Schools

Paramus Public Schools serves kindergarten through grade twelve across eight buildings: an early childhood center, five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. District enrollment in 2023–24 was 3,594 students against 335.7 full-time classroom teachers, a ratio of 10.7 to one.

Elementary
School	Address	Enrollment
Memorial	203 East Midland Avenue	~290
Midland	241 West Midland Avenue	~195
Parkway	145 East Ridgewood Avenue	~295
Ridge Ranch	345 Lockwood Drive	~340
Stony Lane	110 West Ridgewood Avenue	~210

Middle, grades five through eight
School	Address	Enrollment
East Brook	190 Spring Valley Road	~570
West Brook	560 Roosevelt Boulevard	~510

Paramus High School

99 East Century Road, grades 9–12

Enrollment: ~1,130
Student–teacher ratio: 11.2 : 1
Four-year graduation rate: 97%
New Jersey state average: 89%

Higher education in the borough: Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Road.

Enrollment and other figures are approximate, as published by Paramus Public Schools and the New Jersey Department of Education at the time of writing, and change annually. Elementary attendance in Paramus is assigned by address; buyers should confirm the school assignment for this property directly with the district. For school performance information, consult the NJ School Performance Reports and Paramus Public Schools. Provided for reference only and not a representation by the broker or salesperson.

Twenty-six kitchens in the borough

Diners that predate the malls, family Italian and Spanish rooms on Paramus Road, Korean barbecue and Indian on the highways, and the steakhouse row at Garden State Plaza.

Suburban DinerBegan as a small train-car diner in 1956; under its current ownership since 1990. On-site bakery, full bar.172 Route 17 North
Tom Sawyer DinerFamily-run since 1974. Breakfast all day; a menu that runs from diner standards into Italian and Greek plates.98 East Ridgewood Avenue
El CidSpanish. A Paramus Road room for thirty years, reopened in March 2025 under the Moreira family, cooking from the original recipes.205 Paramus Road
Biagio's RistoranteLong-running sit-down Italian.299 Paramus Road
Seoul GalbiTable-grill Korean barbecue.123 Paramus Road
MantraFull-service Indian kitchen and bar.275 Route 4 West
KikuHibachi tables and a sushi bar.Paramus
Turning PointBreakfast and brunch, 7:30am to 3pm. Eggs benedict and regional coffee.65 Route 4 West
MangiamoItalian and pizza, seven days, 9am to 10pm, with a catering arm.501 Route 17
La Bella RomaNeighborhood pizzeria.35 North Farview Avenue
Carlitos Barbecue TaqueriaMexican, from the Carlitos group.Garden State Plaza Boulevard
TacoriaFast-casual Mexican; horchata and the Golden Avocado taco. Founded in 2016 by Rutgers alumni.Bergen Town Center
The Capital GrilleSteakhouse. Dry-aged beef and seafood.1 Garden State Plaza Boulevard
Eddie V's Prime SeafoodPrime seafood and steaks.Garden State Plaza
Fogo de ChãoBrazilian churrasco; the group's first New Jersey location.Garden State Plaza
Seasons 52A menu that rotates with the season.Garden State Plaza
Grand Lux CafeAll-day American menu.Garden State Plaza
Bonefish GrillWood-grilled fish.601 From Road
Houlihan'sBar and dining room near the Plaza.65 Route 4 West
Miller's Ale HouseSports bar and kitchen.Paramus
Olive GardenItalian.Bergen Town Center
California Pizza KitchenPizza.Garden State Plaza
CavaFast-casual Mediterranean bowls and pitas.Bergen Town Center
First WatchBreakfast and lunch; opened fall 2025.Bergen Town Center
Panera BreadBakery-café.770 Route 17
SmashburgerBurgers.556 Route 17 North

Verified as operating at the time of writing. Hours and ownership change; confirm before visiting.

Four courses inside the borough

Most of them along Paramus Road: two private clubs, one municipal course and one county course. Among them is a Tillinghast twenty-seven that has hosted a Ryder Cup.

Map showing 197 Fredrick Street with Ridgewood, Arcola, Paramus, Orchard Hills, White Beeches and Knickerbocker golf courses

Ridgewood Country Club	1.1 mi
Arcola Country Club	1.5 mi
Paramus Golf Course	1.6 mi
Orchard Hills Golf Course	1.8 mi
White Beeches Golf & Country Club, Haworth	3.3 mi
Knickerbocker Country Club, Tenafly	4.2 mi

Ridgewood Country Club, privateFounded in 1890 in Ho-Ho-Kus and moved to its present Paramus site in 1926. Twenty-seven holes laid out by A. W. Tillinghast in 1929, with a clubhouse by Clifford Wendehack. Host of the 1935 Ryder Cup, the 1981 U.S. Senior Open, the 2018 Northern Trust and the 2022 U.S. Amateur. Despite the name, the club is in Paramus.Paramus
Arcola Country Club, privateBuilt in 1909 to a Herbert Barker design at Route 4 and Paramus Road, with later work by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and a 2017 restoration by Steve Smyers. Eighteen holes, par 72, 7,302 yards from the back tees.Paramus
Paramus Golf Course, municipalThe borough's own course, built in 1939. Eighteen holes, par 71, 6,173 yards, operated by the Borough of Paramus under a board of commissioners.314 Paramus Road
Orchard Hills Golf Course, countyNine holes, run by Bergen County. A 2012 renovation rebuilt every bunker and tee.404 Paramus Road

Beyond the borough

Knickerbocker Country Club, privateEighteen holes from 1914 by Donald Ross and Herbert Strong, since restored by Forse and Kovich.Tenafly
Alpine Country Club, privateEighteen holes by A. W. Tillinghast.Demarest
White Beeches Golf & Country Club, privateFounded 1918; eighteen holes by Walter Travis. Has hosted U.S. Open sectional qualifying and the New Jersey State Open.Haworth
Edgewood Country Club, privateMember-owned since 1959. Twenty-seven holes by John Handwerg Sr., with a heated Olympic pool, Har-Tru courts and a fitness center.River Vale
Soldier Hill Golf Course, countyEighteen holes, par 71, built in 1963 to an Alec Ternyei design.Emerson
Rockleigh Golf Course, countyTwenty-seven holes, opened 1946 and renovated in 2004 by Robert McNeil.Rockleigh
Valley Brook Golf Course, countyEighteen holes, acquired by the county in 2006.River Vale
Darlington Golf Course, countyEighteen holes, par 72.Mahwah
Overpeck Golf Course, countyEighteen holes, par 72.Teaneck

Private clubs are noted as features of the area. Membership is a matter between the club and the applicant; no representation is made as to availability. Distances are straight-line.

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Paramus Borough Hall	1.0 mi
Bergen Town Center	1.7 mi
Westfield Garden State Plaza	1.7 mi
The Shops at Riverside, Hackensack	2.7 mi

Bergen County Zoo	0.8 mi
Van Saun County Park	1.0 mi
DiMaggio Park	2.7 mi

197FredrickStreet

The residence at 197 Fredrick Street

At a glance

A great room around a double-sided fireplace

A chef's kitchen with two oversized islands

The second floor

The primary bath

Theater, fitness and entertaining

Fitness, sauna and steam

The garage

The developer

In their words

Quality

Choice

Excellence

Paramus

Farmland, then the busiest retail corridor in the state

Origins and early settlement

The Revolutionary corridor

The first mall in New Jersey

The blue laws

Times and distances to Manhattan

To the George Washington Bridge Bus Station

To the Port Authority Bus Terminal

Straight-line distance

Living in Paramus

The basics

Markets and pharmacy

Schools

Paramus High School

Twenty-six kitchens in the borough

Shopping and entertainment

Parks

Four courses inside the borough

Beyond the borough

Book a tour

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