Downtown Paterson and Abandoned Mills

Paterson, NJ

When I visited Paterson in the Summer of 2010, it was a fairly rugged place, with large pockets of poverty amidst the abandoned and repurposed infrastructure. Headed up the hill from the city to Hinchliffe Stadium, I crossed the river downstream of the Great Falls over the West Broadway Bridge (1897).

Walking uphill on Ryle Avenue, I passed the abandoned facilities of the Addy Mills and Columbia Textile Mills, both EPA brownfields sites. I also passed signs advertising The Vistas, a condo development on the bluffs above the river downstream of the falls that appears to have been derailed either by the Great Recession or the crappy neighborhood.

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Passaic River downstream of the falls
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West Broadway Bridge - west side
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West Broadway Bridge - west side
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West Broadway Bridge - deck looking northwest
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Concrete-Metal Bridge, Designed and Built by Keepers & Thacher
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West Street Bridge plaque
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2007 rehabilitaion plaque
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West Street Bridge plaque
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West Broadway Bridge - deck looking southeast
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Private truss bridge West of the West Broadway Bridge
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Private truss bridge
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Riverview Towers
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Ryle Avenue headed uphill to the west
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Ryle Avenue
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Columbia Textile Mills - Ryle Avenue
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Columbia Textile Mills - Ryle Avenue
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Columbia Textile Mills - Ryle Avenue
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Former site of Addy Mills
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Hillside houses on Totowa Avenue
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Hillside houses on Totowa Avenue
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Iglesia Universal - 86 Marion St
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Kearney Street
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PWC subsurface access
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The Vistas - advertisement
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Warehouse - 468 Totawa Ave
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Electronic Transformer Corp.
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School 5 bas relief
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School 5 - Totawa Ave entrance
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School 5 trim
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Sunshine trim over doorway
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School 5 sign