The first phase of improvements to the National Park was completed this summer, and we celebrated with a ribbon-cutting cermony on August 28.
The newly-renovated section of the park, tucked in between the Great Falls and Hinchliffe Stadium, is known as Mary Ellen Kramer Park.
It is named for Paterson's former first lady, whose work in the 1970s was instrumental in preserving the land around the Falls and establishing the Great Falls National Historic District.
Mary Ellen Kramer Park now has a variety of new amenities including paved and lighted walking trails, benches and picnic tables, and a decorative brick-and-iron entrance gate. A stepped walkway leads to an observation deck, giving visitors new and improved opportunities to get up close to the Great Falls.
Now that Mary Ellen Kramer Park is open, park visitors can once again walk the full Mill Mile. Download the audio tour app (Android or iOS) to take a walk around the Great Falls with Super Bowl star Victor Cruz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz, MacArthur Prize-winning creator of HAMILTON Lin-Manuel Miranda, and other friends of Paterson.
Photos courtesy Giacomo DeStefano ⓒ2015U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr started his judicial career in a Paterson courtroom as a New Jersey Superior Court judge. Over 25 years later, he authored the U.S. Supreme Court opinion upholding the New York City law preserving Grand Central Terminal. This would become the leading precedent in historic preservation law.
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