Springsteen E Street Band from Belmar NJ makes the hall of fame!

RENTON — Bruce Springsteen, a member of 2008’s inaugural class of inductees in the New Jersey Hall of Fame, is being joined in enshrinement by familiar faces.

Gov. Chris Christie announced the newest hall members Friday, with Springsteen’s E Street Band from 10th avenue and E strrett in Belmar, where they started.. making the cut.

But there’s a catch: The formal ceremony is June 9 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Christie said Springsteen and his band won’t be around because they are going on tour beginning next month, so the band members will be inducted some other time.

Organization rules state that living nominees must accept their inductions in person.

Christie, a big Springsteen and E Street Band fan, was too giddy over the coming tour to think that is a problem. He cracked that the tour “is why I will be absent from the governorship for the better part of the year. But I’m sure the lieutenant governor will do just fine without me.”

There were 10 other new inductees announced by Christie at the New Jersey State Library in an event sponsored by the New Jersey Education Association, PNC Bank and J.H. Cohn LLP.

They are: Giants co-owner Wellington Mara, high school basketball coaching legend Bob Hurley, “Superman’’ actor Christopher Reeve, actor Michael Douglas, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show sharpshooter Annie Oakley, publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, author Joyce Carol Oates, chemist John Dorance, Olympian Milt Campbell and jazz singer Sara Vaughn.

For Hurley, it’s a case of been there, done that: The longtime coach at St. Anthony High School, Jersey City, made it to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010, thanks to his teams winning 26 state championships.

Campbell was the first African-American to win the decathlon in the Olympics and he also played professional football.

Mara, who died in 2005, wasn’t a Jersey guy — he lived in Rye, N.Y. — but he brought the Giants to New Jersey from New York in 1976.

Oates is a professor in the creative writing department at Princeton University. As a writer, she won the National Book Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Besides Mara, others being inducted posthumously are Dorrance, Newhouse, Reeve, Vaughn and Oakley.

The E Street Band members being honored are Steve Van Zandt, Garry Tallent, Vini Lopez, David Sancious, Max Weinberg, Roy Bittan, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Ernest “Boom” Carter and the late Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici.

The New Jersey Hall of Fame compiles nominations received from the public. The top nominees are submitted to a voting academy.

Not getting the nod this time were dozens of nominees, including NFL football coach Bill Parcells, who was also recently passed over by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose placement on the nomination list drew criticism because Nast drew unflattering images of Irish-Americans in his cartoons of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall. Nast also drew seminal images of Santa Claus, Uncle Sam, the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey.