I heard that too (about being North Paterson). On the day of the explosion we saw a helicopter land on the football field, which was very unusual but we really didn't know what happened. On the way home my friend and I saw a plume of smoke and thought maybe it was car fire. When we got to Utter Avenue for some reason there was no yellow tape on the 4th Avenue side of the building so we just walked right by the burning building on the sidewalk! When we got past the tracks we then went under the tape to come out into the area where the press was. No one seemed to notice us at all. I remember there was Gabe Pressman from WNBC in New York interviewing someone. I lived about two blocks away (on the other side of the propane storage tanks!) and she lived about a block and a half away. So it was a big deal and it smoldered for weeks.
I was taught that before the town was called Hawthorne, it was called North Paterson. This appears to be supported by some old books I saw years ago at the Rea Ave Reformed Church that had ownership "bookplates" identifying the owner as the Reformed Church of North Paterson.
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I heard that too (about being North Paterson). On the day of the explosion we saw a helicopter land on the football field, which was very unusual but we really didn't know what happened. On the way home my friend and I saw a plume of smoke and thought maybe it was car fire. When we got to Utter Avenue for some reason there was no yellow tape on the 4th Avenue side of the building so we just walked right by the burning building on the sidewalk! When we got past the tracks we then went under the tape to come out into the area where the press was. No one seemed to notice us at all. I remember there was Gabe Pressman from WNBC in New York interviewing someone. I lived about two blocks away (on the other side of the propane storage tanks!) and she lived about a block and a half away. So it was a big deal and it smoldered for weeks.
I was taught that before the town was called Hawthorne, it was called North Paterson. This appears to be supported by some old books I saw years ago at the Rea Ave Reformed Church that had ownership "bookplates" identifying the owner as the Reformed Church of North Paterson.