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![[Municipal flag]](../images/u/us-njwny.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 10 October 2022
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A flag, seal, and logo were adopted with Ordinance #6/21 in March 2021.
https://www.westnewyorknj.org/_Content/pdf/ordinances/Ord0621.pdf
B.
The municipal seal is used for purposes of certifying official records and
instruments of the Town of West New York.
a. The seal is described as
constituting the following elements; specifically,
i. It is in the shape
of a circle.
ii. On the bottom right of the center circle, there remains
a visual representation of the Town of West New York pre-waterfront development.
1. The same, depicts various elements of the historical mixed-use
environment which embodies the Town of West New York – that of seamless
residential, commercial, and industrial zones coming together.
2. There
is an industrial gear holding up a piece of plywood, symbolizing growth and
development – which highlights the rapid population growth the Town has seen
since the 1940s and 1950s.
iii. On the northern half of the inner circle,
we see a visual representation of the City of New York, with modular figures
embodying the skyscrapers (inclusive of the Empire State Building) visually
present across the river from the Town of West New York.
iv. Above the
northern half of the inner circle there are thirteen (13) five pointed stars,
highlighting the thirteen American colonies which embodied and established
safeguards for our shared American values and identity as one of freedom,
progress, and prosperity.
v. There is an outer ring, which at the top
contains the words “WEST NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY” and at the bottom “PROGRESS
‘1898’ PROSPERITY”
D. The Town flag means the official flag, or any prior
official flag, of the Town of West New York, including any cut, facsimile,
reproduction, incorporation, likeness, or derivation thereof, which is a
rectangle having a height-to width ration of 3:5, that contains a blue border,
and has two horizontal color stripes of equal width and height in white and navy
blue, with the Town seal centered vertically and/or horizontally in the middle
of the rectangle and overlapping the two horizontal stripes.
Masao Okazaki, 10 October 2022
![[Municipal seal]](../images/u/us-njwny).gif)
image by Masao Okazaki, 10 October 2022
The city reverts to an older seal, and wants to restrict city flag use:
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/09/west-new-york-rebrands-and-considers-law-to-prevent-non-official-insignia-use.html
Dave Fowler, 15 September 2020
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