Wrigley Park

Wrigley Park, also called Fourth Ward, is a neighborhood around a namesake park located north of Broadway in Paterson, New Jersey.[1] It was named for a Paterson paper manufacturing family.[2][3]

This article is about the neighborhood in New Jersey. For the baseball stadium in Chicago, see Wrigley Field.

The neighborhood has experienced years of poverty, crime, and neglect.[4] However, there are new houses being built and crime has dropped in recent years. The city has planned to address the empties lot in this section of the city through fines and eventually taking them over to sell to developers.[5] Habitat for Humanity has built numerous homes in the district.[6]

The proposed Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project light rail would potentially include a station at Lafayette Street.[7]

See also

Thomas Wrigley, son of park's namesake

References
  1. "Paterson Parks Report: Wrigley Park".
  2. "Clipped from the Morning Call". The Morning Call. 9 January 1902. p. 1.
  3. https://www.patersonnj.gov/egov/documents/1525360415_49082.pdf.
  4. "Map: Gang controlled blocks of Paterson". 26 February 2014.
  5. "Filling the void: Paterson sets sights on hundreds of abandoned properties". NJ.com. 7 November 2014.
  6. "Paterson Habitat for Humanity awarded $2.6M to fund 13 single-family homes in 4th Ward".
  7. "NJ Transit Passaic-Bergen Passenger Service Restoration Project Madison Avenue/Commuter Rail Corridor Study". Passaic County. 2008.


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