Eastside, Paterson

Eastside is a neighborhood in Paterson, New Jersey. It is bordered by South Paterson, Downtown Paterson, Riverside and the Passaic River It is bound by 10th Avenue and Montgomery Street to the north, Straight Street to the west, I-80 to the south and the river to the east. It is Paterson's largest neighborhood and includes the smaller neighborhoods of Sandy Hill, People's Park, Eastside Park and the Manor Section. Eastside is a mostly residential area with commercial centers along 33rd Street and Broadway. It is also home to Eastside Park, Paterson's largest park.

Eastside Park

Eastside Park is a historic area around the park with the same name on the Passaic River. It is bounded on the east by the river, to the north by Broadway, to the west by 33rd Street and the south by 17th Avenue.

The Manor Section

The Manor Section also called the Upper Eastside is a residential area of the Eastside that is located along a bend in the Passaic River. It is bound by the river on the north and east sides and by 33rd Street to the west and Broadway on the south. There is a small park called Kent Village Park in the southwest corner with a few sports fields.

People's Park/21st Avenue

People's Park is a vibrant neighborhood bounded by Interstate 80 to the south, Madison Avenue to the East, Cedar Street to the north, and Straight Street to the west. 21st Street once had a large Italian population with more Italian restaurants than today, but has recently had a growing Hispanic Population. The area referred to as 21st Street or La Ventiuno is considered part of the People's Park neighborhood.

andy Hill

Sandy Hill is a Dominican neighborhood located north of People's Park. It is bounded by Madison Avenue to the east, Cedar Street to the south, Straight Street to the west and Market Street to the north. It is named after a park that was once called Sandy Hill Park.

Temple Emanuel

Temple Emanuel, Paterson is an exuberant limestone and brick building. It features a wealth of Art Deco design elements including a massive octagonal sanctuary with bronze filigree entrance doors and twenty one stained glass panels framed with bold geometric motifs that depict Biblical scenes. Wood pews radiate from the dais, which fronts a marble ark.

Finished in 1929, Temple Emanuel symbolized the rising affluence of Paterson’s Jewish community in the 1920s, when the prosperity of silk and other industries in Paterson enabled many Jews to move from downtown where they had settled and built the congregation’s first home to fashionable neighborhoods, such as Eastside Park where Emanuel is located. Largely financed by movie mogul Jacob Fabian, and designed by Paterson architect Fredrick W. Wentworth, Temple Emanuel thrived for roughly 40 years. But by the 1970s Paterson’s industrial base was in decline, and its Jewish community was moving, with the rest of the white middle class, to the suburbs. The Jewish population of Paterson, which numbered 30,000 in the 1940s, included fewer than 1,000 members at the end of the millennium.