Welcome PJ... I'm from the Hudson Valley area in NY about 50 miles north of you!
Didn't Lex Luthor try to blow up Hackensack?
Actually, it was a mistake by one one Luthor's henchmen, Otis.
Here's the story -
However, Superman escapes with the help of Luthor's girlfriend, Eve Teschmacher, who makes him promise to first stop the missile mistakenly directed to Hackensack, New Jersey, by the bumbling of Luthor's henchman, Otis. Superman fulfills his promise, steering the Hackensack missile off course into the sky, but then sees the nuclear explosion from the California missile, causing a severe earthquake.
JD