East Rutherford 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 10,022, an lump of 1,109 (+12.4%) from the 2010 census enhance of 8,913, which in perspective reflected an increase of 197 (+2.3%) from the 8,716 counted in the 2000 census. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located 7 miles (11 km) west of Midtown Manhattan.

Under the terms of an case of the New Jersey Legislature on April 17, 1889, a share of the antiquated Union Township was incorporated under the say of Boiling Springs Township. The other township took its pronounce from a spring in the community. On March 28, 1894, the Borough of East Rutherford was created, based upon the results of a referendum held the previous day, and Boiling Springs Township was dissolved. While there was no fiddle with in its borders, the proclaim and form of giving out were changed. The borough was the second formed during the “Boroughitis” phenomenon after that sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone.

East Rutherford is the house of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which includes Meadowlands Arena and MetLife Stadium, and used to be the location of Giants Stadium. The pitch was best known as the former home of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League and of the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association, and for hosting studious basketball, arena football, concerts, and supplementary events. MetLife Stadium is home of the New York Giants and New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL), the New York Guardians of the XFL, and hosted Super Bowl XLVIII, which made East Rutherford the smallest city ever to host a Super Bowl. East Rutherford will be one of 16 venues fixed to host games for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with matches inborn played at MetLife Stadium. Giants Stadium, which hosted the Giants and Jets until 2009, was then the original home of the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. East Rutherford is the solitary municipality later fewer than 10,000 residents to have been home to five professional sports teams simultaneously, as without difficulty as the smallest city to host any professional sports team within its city limits.

The borough is along with the site of American Dream Meadowlands, a large shopping center and entertainment profound that was originally named “Xanadu” which opened on October 25, 2019.