Our Cliffside Park office is directly south of Fort Lee, so the borough is one of the closest places we work. The Palisades exposure here is the same one we deal with at home: wind off the Hudson, wind-driven rain during nor'easters, and freeze-thaw on exposed masonry. If you have a leak, storm damage or a chimney that needs attention, we inspect for free and give you a written estimate.
Housing in Fort Lee
Fort Lee combines high-rise residential towers along the Palisades and near the George Washington Bridge with older low-rise neighborhoods. On the residential streets, the housing is mostly single-family and two-family homes built from the early 1900s through the post-war decades, with pitched asphalt shingle roofs and brick chimneys, alongside garden apartments and small multifamily buildings with flat roofs.
Weather and exposure
The borough occupies the top of the Palisades at one of the most exposed points on the Hudson. Wind funnels along the river and over the cliff edge, so roofs here see higher gusts than inland Bergen towns, and nor'easters push rain horizontally against east-facing slopes and walls. Traffic-heavy corridors around the bridge add grime that holds moisture on flat roofs, and freeze-thaw cycles work on exposed chimneys and parapets.
