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2 unusual facts about West Hoboken


Arab immigration to the United States

By 1924 there were 25 Syrian owned and operated silk factories in Paterson and West Hoboken, New Jersey alone.

West Hoboken, New Jersey

Arthur Pinajian (1914 – 1999), Armenian American artist and comic book creator, known as the creator of the characters Madame Fatal and Invisible Hood.



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Giuseppe Ciancabilla

This led Ciancabilla and other collaborators to leave that magazine and to start the journal "L'Aurora" in West Hoboken.

Robert Waters

In 1883, he became the first principal of West Hoboken Public School, which today is known as Emerson Middle School in Union City, New Jersey.