There's no waterfront quite like ours. If you love boats, this is the place to be. I remember as a kid, I used to go out on party fishing boats with my father and grandfather. Fink says each year, the city gets the chance to show off its crown jewel during Perth Amboy's Waterfront Festival, which will be held July 10-11 this year. We get anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 people for the event.
Vendors come from all over the country.
Besides the waterfront and Perth Amboy's business district, a renaissance also is taking place in the city's school district, says Dr. Jack DeTalvo, schools superintendent. We have three new elementary schools, an upper elementary school for grades 5 and 6, and a new junior high for seventh and eighth graders. The expansion is needed because the student population is 8,000 and growing, says DeTalvo. The kindergarten through grade 4 Riverview school, located near the waterfront, is scheduled to be completed next January. Also on the drawing board are an early childhood center and a new high school.