Editing Paterson, New Jersey (section)

==In popular culture==

=== Literature ===

* Paterson is the subject of [[William Carlos Williams]]' five-book epic poem ''[[Paterson (poem)|Paterson]]'', a cornerstone work of modern American poetry.<ref name="Reuters" /> 
* Paterson is also mentioned in the twelfth line of Part 1 of [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s poem ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl]]''. In the novel ''[[On the Road]]'' by Ginsberg's friend [[Jack Kerouac]], the protagonist Sal Paradise lives with his aunt in Paterson. Kerouac may have chosen Paterson as a stand-in for his hometown of [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], also a mill town with a waterfall.<ref>Schiller, Kristan. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/07/home/kerouac-jersey.html "Kerouac's 'On the Road' And Its Jersey Ties"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 4, 1994. Accessed May 21, 2013. "Kerouac was born and raised in the Merrimack River valley town of Lowell, Mass., and lived in Ozone Park, Queens, with his mother, Gabrielle Ange Levesque Kerouac, when he started writing ''On the Road.'' He imagined himself in the story as Salvatore Paradise, a young writer attempting a novel while living with an unnamed aunt in another American city – Paterson, N.J."</ref> 
* Paterson is the setting of many of [[Junot Díaz]]'s short stories and novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'', and [[John Updike]]'s 1997 novel ''[[In the Beauty of the Lilies]].''<ref>[[Julian Barnes|Barnes, Julian]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike-lilies.html "Grand Illusion"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 28, 1996. Accessed May 3, 2012.</ref>
* ''The Poisoned Glass'' (2019) by Kimberly Tilley is the true story of the murder of [[Jennie Bosschieter|17-year-old immigrant Jennie Bosschieter]] in October 1900. (true crime/non-fiction/American history). Jennie worked in the silk mills of Paterson. She was given absinthe spiked with a lethal amount of a date rape drug by four prominent citizens, who were later the defendants in a sensational murder trial in 1901.

=== Films ===

* The controversial arrest and conviction of boxer [[Rubin "Hurricane" Carter]], whose conviction was overturned in 1985, was dramatized in the 1999 [[Denzel Washington]] film, ''[[The Hurricane (1999 film)|The Hurricane]]'', and was partially shot in the city.<ref name="Reuters" /> The lyrics of the [[Bob Dylan]] song [[Hurricane (Bob Dylan song)|"Hurricane"]] include "In Paterson that's just the way things go / If you're Black you might as well not show / Up on the street / Unless you want to draw the heat". The film ''[[Lean on Me (film)|Lean on Me]]'', while sensationalized, is based on events that occurred in Paterson's [[Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey)|Eastside High School]].<ref name="LeanOnMe" /> ''[[Alice, Sweet Alice]]'' (1976) with [[Brooke Shields]] was filmed entirely in Paterson, the director's hometown,<ref>[http://www.terrortrap.com/honorablementions/alicesweetalice/ The Terror Trap: Alice Sweet Alice]</ref> as was ''[[State Property (film)|State Property]]''.<ref>DeLuca, Dan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130730001254/http://articles.philly.com/2002-01-19/entertainment/25345150_1_beanie-sigel-state-property-crime-boss "No payoff in 'State Property' A street thug aims to hit it big. The movie misses"]. ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', January 19, 2002. Accessed August 16, 2012. "The setting is meant to be Philadelphia, but save for one quick shot of City Hall, State Property never looks the slightest bit familiar. Perhaps that's because it was shot in Paterson, N.J. (According to Abbott's production notes, efforts to film in town were thwarted because 'we could not afford to house everyone in Philly or commute from NYC,' where the Roc-A-Fella posse is headquartered.)"</ref> Its sequel, ''[[State Property 2]]'', and  ''[[Far from Heaven]]'', ''[[The Preacher's Wife]]''<ref>Staudter, Thomas. [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/26/nyregion/how-main-street-cafe-got-in-the-movies.html "How Main Street Cafe Got in the Movies"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 26, 1996. Accessed August 16, 2012. "In addition to the Chelsea Pier television and film production studios in Manhattan, other chief locales for ''The Preacher's Wife'' include Yonkers, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, N.J., and Portland, Me."</ref> and ''[[Purple Rose of Cairo]]''<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB298CB4C16E5AE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Banner Year For N.J. Film Industry Production Companies Spent $15.4 Million In '84"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', January 3, 1985. Accessed August 16, 2012. "The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen's sixth New Jersey film, using sites in Mount Arlington, South Amboy and Paterson."</ref> are among other films that were partially shot in Paterson. The city was also a filming location for the 1995 drama film, ''[[New Jersey Drive]]'', which is primarily based on [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]'s automobile theft rate at the time, with the city being considered "the car theft capital of the world".{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}
* The 2016 film ''[[Paterson (film)|Paterson]]'', directed by [[Jim Jarmusch]], is set in Paterson and was largely filmed there. The movie is about a bus driver named Paterson who writes poetry in his free time.<ref>Robey, Tim. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/05/16/paterson-review-adam-drivers-performance-will-be-treasured-for-y/ "Adam Driver's Paterson will be treasured for years – review"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', November 24, 2016. Accessed December 6, 2016. "You've beheld Adam Driver as Kylo Ren; now meet Kylo Zen. In Jim Jarmusch's new film Paterson, he plays a guy called Paterson, who happens to live in Paterson, New Jersey, his birthplace, where he drives a bus (number 23) with his surname naturally emblazoned on it."</ref>

=== Comedy ===
[[Lou Costello]] often referred to his hometown of Paterson in his comedy routines with [[Bud Abbott]]. The plot of the June 28, 1945, episode of the [[Abbott & Costello]] radio show is about the City of Paterson inviting him back for "Lou Costello Day" to [[Ship naming and launching|launch]] a new [[garbage scow]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140723215153/http://www.myoldradio.com/old-radio-episodes/ac-return-to-paterson/1 Episode: "Abbott & Costello – Return To Paterson"], My Old Radio, broadcast June 28, 1945. Accessed August 16, 2012.</ref> Three Abbott and Costello films had their world premieres at the Fabian Theater in Paterson, which could accommodate a crowd of 3,000: ''[[One Night in the Tropics]]'' (1940), ''[[Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion]]'' and ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk (1952 film)|Jack and the Beanstalk]]'' (1952).<ref>Cichowski, John. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105396641/lou-costello-and-his-films/ "Costello: Playing in Jersey City"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', April 2, 2002. Accessed July 11, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "''Jack and the Beanstalk'' has special resonance. It is one of only three Abbott & Costello films to debut at the Silk City's Fabian Theater, a 3,000-seat movie venue that closed in the late 1980s. The other Paterson premieres were ''One Night in the Tropics'' (1940) and ''Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion'' (1950)."</ref> Costello was honored with a larger-than-life statue in Federici Park in 1992.<ref>Pollak, Michael. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/21/nyregion/paterson-prepares-to-take-who-s-on-first-to-its-heart.html "Paterson Prepares to Take 'Who's on First' to Its Heart"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 21, 1992. Accessed July 11, 2022. "A private group of Patersonians headed by Lou Duva, the boxing promoter, and backed by contributions from all over the country, has been polishing the steel gazebo and painting the bocci courts in Federici Park, a half-acre of green in the city's oldest factory district. At noon, they will unveil a bronze statue of Costello, 6 feet tall from shoes to derby hat. (Lou, who was about 6 inches shorter, would have liked that.) He is in a business suit and is holding a bat over his shoulder, as if performing his routine."</ref>

=== TV ===
The [[Great Falls (Passaic River)|Great Falls]] were featured in the first season of the HBO crime drama ''[[The Sopranos]]'', both in the [[The Sopranos (The Sopranos episode)|pilot]] and in the episode ''[[Pax Soprana (The Sopranos episode)|Pax Soprana]]'' as the place where [[Junior Soprano]]'s friend's grandson committed suicide after taking poor designer drugs; as a favor, Junior Soprano had [[List of characters from The Sopranos#Mikey Palmice|Mikey Palmice]] and another individual toss the dealer, [[List of characters from The Sopranos in the DiMeo Crime Family#Rusty Irish|Rusty Irish]], off the bridge over the falls.<ref>Nussbaum, Paul. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150920150417/http://articles.philly.com/2009-04-20/news/25286701_1_waterfall-national-park-grand-canyon "In gritty North Jersey, a national park-to-be Waterfall has a ''Sopranos'' tie."], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', April 20, 2009. Accessed October 9, 2016. "In recent times, though, the biggest thing to hit the falls was an unlucky victim who got tossed off the footbridge in an episode of ''The Sopranos''."</ref> Other locations throughout the city were used in the series, as much of the show was shot on location in North Jersey.

=== Music ===
The New Jersey–based band [[Suit of Lights]] pays tribute to Paterson in their song "Goodbye Silk City". The 1983 music video "[[Two Tribes]]" by [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] makes reference to Paterson in its opening sequence.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA YouTube – Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes (1983)]</ref>{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

=== Inventions ===

* The first marketable revolver was produced in Paterson by [[Samuel Colt]] starting in 1836, and was known as the [[Colt Paterson]].<ref>Richard C. Rattenbury, [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/lnc01 "Colt Revolvers"], ''[[Handbook of Texas Online]]'', published by the [[Texas State Historical Association]]. Accessed November 14, 2011.</ref>
* The first steam-powered and first electric-powered model trains were both invented in Paterson. Eugene Beggs made the first steam-powered train in the city around 1871. Beggs' employee, Jehu Garlick, invented the first electric-powered model train that consisted of a tinplate toy locomotive with four aluminum wheels. A 2016 exhibit at the [[New Jersey State Museum]] titled "Toy World" highlighted the history of New Jersey's toy-making industry and prominently featured Paterson's contribution to the history of toys.<ref>Rahman, Jayed. [https://patersontimes.com/2016/10/29/americas-first-model-trains-invented-in-paterson-on-display-at-new-jersey-state-museum-exhibit/ "America’s first model trains, invented in Paterson, on display at New Jersey State Museum exhibit"], ''Patwerson Times'', October 29, 2016. Accessed December 1, 2022. "The first steam-powered and the first electric-powered model trains, both invented in Paterson, are on display in a new exhibit called 'Toy World' which highlights the history of New Jersey’s toy making industry at the New Jersey State Museum. Paterson is prominently featured in the exhibition for its contribution to New Jersey’s history of toy making."</ref>