A Closer Look at Haworth's Downtown, Parks and Reservoir Trail

Haworth is 2.2 square miles, and nearly all of its retail life happens on one short stretch of Terrace Street. That compact scale means changes along Terrace Street and at borough amenities can be easy to notice. Residents can follow developments such as a playground renovation or a new bid posting. The local shops, trail and gelato counter are among the features that shape daily life here. A recent change on Terrace Street offers one example.

Terrace Street's Commercial District

Haworth's commercial district holds roughly 30 storefronts total, a mix that has historically included a hardware store, a post office, a dry cleaner, a liquor store, a florist and an apothecary alongside its restaurants and cafes. In 2019 the borough spent $600,000 upgrading the district's lighting, curbs, sidewalks and ramps, a real investment in the district. The strip includes a liquor store, bakery and coffee shop. When a Terrace Street business changes, the change is easy for passersby to notice.

Here is what currently sits along that stretch:

Andiamo Restaurant, the neighborhood's long-running Italian spot known for thin-crust pizza, sits just off that strip at Hardenburgh Avenue and Knickerbocker Road. Between these few addresses, most of a Haworth resident's errands and evenings out happen within a short walk of each other. The borough's duck pond, a small landmark of its own, sits near this same downtown cluster.

A New Gelato Shop on Terrace Street

A recent business change took place at 160 Terrace Street, Suite 2A. As The Local Girl reported, a shop called Fitzie's Ice opened there in the summer of 2025 and closed quickly. By December 20, 2025, the space reopened as Jersey & Co Gelato, a third location for founders Peter Jose and Lekendrick Shaw, who also run shops in Jersey City and at Newark Airport. The new shop leans into a fusion menu of Filipino flavors and Italian gelato technique, open Wednesday through Sunday.

The opening is one of several updates to familiar places around Haworth.

Memorial Field's Playground and Current Improvements

The playground's renovation history is one part of the borough's public-space updates. Haworth's Memorial Field, known to generations of kids as Castle Park, was originally an all-wooden playground built in the early 1990s on ideas contributed by Haworth elementary schoolchildren. By 2017 the wooden structure had passed 25 years old and the borough planned a two-phase renovation: a structure for older kids first, then a second phase for younger kids. The first phase happened. The playground that opened came with newer features, including a solid rock climbing wall and a ninja-style obstacle course that longtime residents hadn't seen on the old wooden version.

That history is why it matters that the borough's own bid postings currently list a fresh round of "Memorial Field Park Improvements," alongside the field's existing pickleball, baseball, soccer and basketball facilities. Memorial Field is a central athletic space for the borough, and the bid postings give residents a way to follow plans for improvements there.

A Trail Along Oradell Reservoir

Terrace Street and Memorial Field cover the errands and the ball games. For outdoor time beyond the ball games, residents can walk or run along the Oradell Reservoir. AllTrails lists the Haworth Oradell Reservoir Path Loop and describes it as an easy route, roughly 38 minutes end to end, around 40 feet of elevation gain, and a rating near 4.4 stars from close to 190 reviewers. The path runs along Lake Shore Drive, tracing the edge of the Oradell Reservoir beside one of the town's two golf courses, through shaded woods that keep it comfortable even in late summer.

Reviewers describe it as dog-friendly, rarely crowded, and occasionally rooty underfoot, the kind of small, specific detail that only shows up when a trail has been walked enough times for people to notice. The route offers a reservoir-side setting, and weekend walkers may cross paths with neighbors from Terrace Street.

The reservoir itself, completed in 1923, still supplies drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in the region, which gives the walk a bit of civic weight beyond the scenery. Haworth's own duck pond downtown carries a smaller piece of that same local lore. Locals point out that it briefly turned up on camera in 2005, when the horror film "Hide and Seek," starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning, shot scenes there. None of that changes the daily use case at the reservoir. It remains a local route for neighbors, dogs and strollers.

What This Adds Up To

Together, these places offer a snapshot of daily life in Haworth: Terrace Street businesses, recreation at Memorial Field, and a reservoir loop within the borough's 2.2 square miles. Their proximity makes local businesses and public-space projects easy to follow. A new shop at 160 Terrace Street or a bid notice for Memorial Field offers an update on familiar places.

That same tight, closely watched quality shapes the housing market here too, which is part of why families who already live in Haworth tend to stay and why homes that do come up get noticed fast. If you're weighing a move within Haworth or thinking about what a change on Terrace Street or at Memorial Field might mean for your own plans, the Stacy Esser Group has been tracking this market up close for years, block by block and one storefront at a time. Schedule a Meeting Today to talk through what's actually happening in your corner of Bergen County.