Uneasy welcome as ultra-Orthodox Jews extend beyond New York
High property prices there are forcing them out to other districts
Jersey City
TO the gentrifying stew of bankers, artists and college graduates who are transforming this once blue-collar city across the Hudson River from Manhattan, add an unexpected flavour.
In a heavily African-American neighbourhood, 62 families from a number of Hasidic sects based in Brooklyn and rarely seen here have bought a scattering of faded but roomy wood-frame row houses whose prices are less than half what homes of similar size would cost in New York - roughly US$300,000 compared with US$800,000.
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