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South Paterson, Little Ramallah and Little Istanbul
2022
Main Street, South Paterson, New Jersey
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The blocks along Main Street below the city centre hold the largest Palestinian community in the United States and a Turkish quarter beside it, in a mill city that has been absorbing arrivals since the 1830s. Bakeries, travel agents and jewellers here carry the names of towns in the West Bank. Paterson is a sister city to Ramallah, and in 2022 it renamed a five block stretch of Main Street Palestine Way.
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