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Why Now? Neighborhood Assets
The Great Falls Neighborhood is an asset-rich community. Its numerous natural, physical, institutional, and cultural assets enhance its potential for revitalization and provide leverage points for neighborhood revitalization strategies. These key assets include:
Great Falls National Historical Park
Not many urban neighborhoods can boast that they have a 35-acre National Parks Service asset in their center. Officially designated as a National Historical Park just ten years ago, the Park includes the Falls itself; its surrounding overlook parks, bridges, and amphitheater; its “Valley of the Rocks” hiking trail; its raceway canals – a National Historic Mechanical and Civil Engineering Landmark – and industrial ruins that will become the Quarry Lawn.
Hinchliffe Stadium
An art-deco stadium built in 1932, and famed for hosting negro league baseball games—including— the league’s 1933 national championship Hinchliffe stadium is undergoing a full restoration. Soon it will return to hosting athletic and entertainment events of every kind – including, potentially, special Major League Baseball events like the “Field of Dreams Game.”
Neighborhood Schools
The Great Falls Neighborhood is home to twelve K-12 Schools collectively enrolling nearly 8,100 students. These include Paterson’s main public high school – John F. Kennedy -- as well as the newly constructed Joseph A. Taub Middle School. A number of charter schools have settled in the neighborhood’s historic former mill district, finding the space need for their facilities.
