Tony Soprano grew up in Ironbound, as seen in Episode 7 of the first season of The Sopranos, "Down Neck".
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Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega paid homage to this neighborhood in her 1987 song entitled "Ironbound/Fancy Poultry."
They moved to the United States from Portugal when she was still young and settled in the heavily Portuguese Ironbound section of Newark.
Ironbound also creates videos for various clients, including corporations Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox; charities LCU Foundation and Episcopal Charities; and museums Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.