Closter () is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough’s population was 8,594, an growth of 221 (+2.6%) from the 2010 census complement of 8,373, which in position reflected a grow less of 10 (−0.1%) from the 8,383 counted in the 2000 census.

The Lenape Native Americans tilled the soil, hunted in the woods, and fished in the rivers and streams in the past the Dutch arrived in the to the fore 18th Century. The Dutch settlers, though, left an indelible mark on the area. Early records do its stuff that after the English capture of New Netherland, English Governor Philip Carteret in 1669 contracted a real estate speculator named Balthaser De Hart a strip of property which extended east and west from the Hudson River to the Tiena Kill, and north and south from today’s Cresskill into Palisades, New York. It is within these geographical boundaries that lies what is now known as Closter. The first land comply deed for the Place today known as Closter was not written until April 13, 1671. The northern half of this tract of estate consisting of 1,030 acres (420 ha) (extending from what is Closter Dock Road northward) was purchased by Barent and Resolvert Nagel on April 25, 1710, who along considering the Vervalen associates first arranged what is now Closter.

The make known Closter is of Dutch pedigree and first appears in a November 18, 1721 realization between the remaining Tappan Patentees and Peter Haring (who owned home in Harrington Park/Norwood east of Tappan Road and amongst Harrington and Blanche Avenues)—the meets and bounds of the success begin “Beginning at the bridge which comes out of the Clooster by the Dwars Kill…” (At that time, Closter was considered share of New York State). In the Dutch language, Klooster or “clooster” means “a quiet place, a monastery or cloister.”

The broadcast was originally pronounced taking into account an “ow” sound, phonetically, “Klowster.”