And an epicenter of street crime and corruption. Driving into the heart of the city shortly before Christmas, I noticed out my window an officer pacing deliberately toward a house with his right hand on his holster. When we reached our destination a few minutes later, we were told there had been a gangland execution there a few minutes earlier.
From 2017: “PATERSON — More than 98 percent of the students at six Paterson high schools failed to attain passing math scores in this year’s standardized state tests, according to statistics released at Wednesday night’s Board of Education meeting.
At Eastside High’s government and public administration academy, five students among the 593 who took the tests achieved passing scores in math, the report shows. The results were worse at Eastside’s culinary academy, where two students among 584 met proficiency levels in math.”
It is a rustbelt dump...