Eastside Park (neighborhood), Paterson

This article is about the neighborhood in Paterson, New Jersey. For the actual park, see Eastside Park (Paterson, New Jersey). For the park in Omak, Washington, see Eastside Park (Omak, Washington).

Eastside Park is a residential neighborhood in the Eastside of Paterson, New Jersey. The Eastside Park section of the city is generally defined as the area of the city bordered by Vreeland Avenue and East 33rd Street (both part of the "old" York Road) to the west, 20th Avenue to the south, McLean Boulevard (Route 20) to the east, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way (Broadway) to the north. The Eastside Park section is delineated from the Manor section of the city by Broadway, which becomes Route 4 before crossing the Passaic River into Elmwood Park (formerly East Paterson) in Bergen County.

Eastside Park Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Entrance to Eastside Park
Location	Roughly bounded by 20th, Vreeland, and 11th Avenues, E. 33rd Street and Mclean Boulevard, Paterson, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°54′50″N 74°8′24″W
Area	300 acres (120 ha)
Built	1888 (1888)
Architect	Fred Wesley Wentworth; Welch, Smith and Provot; John Y. Culyer
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	04000673
NJRHP No.	2372
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 7, 2004
Designated NJRHP	May 10, 2004

History

Once the home of the city's industrial and political leaders, the neighborhood experienced a significant downturn as industry fled Paterson. In recent years, people have begun moving back into the neighborhood and are restoring some of the area's historic houses. The jewel of the neighborhood remains Eastside Park and the mansions that surround it. In addition, this section of Paterson once had a large Jewish population, with the original sites of Barnert Temple and Temple Emanuel both situated in the section. The Eastside Park neighborhood now houses the Paterson campus of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States, which serves a congregant base of over 25,000 people.

Historic district

The Eastside Park Historic District is a historic district situated across both the Eastside Park and Manor sections of the city. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 2004, for its significance in architecture, landscape architecture and community planning. The district includes 790 contributing buildings.

Gallery

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  Charles Van Buren farmhouse, the White House
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  Tudor Revival style house
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  Italian Renaissance style house
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  Tudor Revival style house

External links

• Media related to Eastside Park Historic District at Wikimedia Commons