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As Douglass and Bilbao note in their book, Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World, "Elderly Basques residing in the American West today still retain vivid memories, spanning more than half a century in some cases, of getting off the boat in New York City filled with trepidation, only to hear the welcome words, "Euskaldunak emen badira?" ("Are there Basques here?").
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n 1913, a group of 13 Basques, originally working on the East River waterfront, formed the Centro Vasco-Americano, the first Basque Center in the United States, later with a permanent location at 48 Cherry Street in what is today Chinatown. During the Second World War, the city even played host to the Basque government-in-exile. While New York was just a port of entry for many Basque-Americans, a small community remained in New York and New Jersey, where their neighbors are Portuguese and Galicians in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood.

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