Video: Visiting Hinchliffe Stadium

This week Thirteen.org takes their City Concealed series to... Paterson, New Jersey! Earlier this year Hinchliffe Stadium was named the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places; it's vacant, dilapitated, and one of only three remaining Negro League stadiums in the country. In 1933, the New York Black Yankees started playing home games there, and continued to for a decade. Paterson voters approved a ballot initiative to renovate the stadium, and currently money is being raised to restore and rebuild it—if that happens, the public school system would use it, as well as the community (for concerts, and other entertainment reasons). Learn more below...

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on November 30, 2010 11:10 AM

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Joe Schumacher

Thanks for posting this! Hinchliffe is pretty interesting. I've visited twice recently. The stadium is only half-heartedly protected. It is pretty easy to get inside and walk around.

The video didn't mention that the stadium sits right above the Great Falls, where Alexander Hamilton founded the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, or S.U.M., which was one of the most important early industrial centers in the country.

The area around the Falls is slowly being turned into a national park. Within walking distance is the Paterson Museum, which houses the world's first two operational submarines and seems to operate on almost no budget. Also nearby is Libby's Lunch, where one can get a birch beer and tasty chili dog for lunch.