Don’t expect residents of Bergen County, New Jersey, to be first in line for a ride on the Ferris wheel going up in their backyards, the tallest in America.

Neighbors complain that the project will obstruct their view of Manhattan’s skyline across the Hudson River, hurting property values. Rutherford borough’s attorney, Lane Biviano, is mustering public opposition to the Ferris wheel on a Web site listing beefs about its safety and aesthetics.

The ride will tower 287 feet, eclipsing Dallas’s 212-foot Texas Star. It’s part of the $2 billion Xanadu sports and entertainment complex being built next to the Meadowlands racetrack, a project Governor Jon Corzine is backing as a way to stimulate the state’s economy.

“We don’t want our town to be associated with some honky- tonk Ferris wheel,” the mayor of East Rutherford, James Cassella, whose community includes the Xanadu site. “There’s a concern about our image.”

Construction of the Ferris wheel is scheduled to start in midsummer, a spokesman for Xanadu, Rich Edmonds, said. It will be ready to open with the rest of Xanadu in November, a spokesman for Meadowlands Development, Lloyd Kaplan, said.

“I’m sure there were people who didn’t like the Eiffel Tower being built because they felt it would impede their view,” Mr. Kaplan said. “You can’t please everybody. We believe this will be of enormous beauty.”

The ride will be called the Pepsi Globe under a 10-year naming-rights agreement with Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo Inc. The wheel’s 26 glass-enclosed, climate-controlled capsules will hold as many as 20 people each for 25-minute rides affording views of New York City and the Hudson. Ticket prices haven’t been set, Mr. Edmonds said.