small group of Sephardic Jews, originally from Portugal but expelled from Recife in Brazil, may have included the city's first Portuguese speakers when they arrived in 1654. Just north, many Portuguese settled in SoHo after the Second World War, near 6th Avenue south of Houston. Around the same period, Newark became and today remains a major hub for Portuguese speakers up and down the Eastern seaboard. There are also communities of speakers from different parts of Portugal scattered around New York City, including in the Carroll Gardens area of Brooklyn (with the Luso-American Social Club) and in Jamaica. Queens, which is home to the Portuguese Recreation Club as well as a language school (Escola D. Nuno Álvares Pereira) and a restaurant (O Lavrador). The community in Jamaica was larger from the 1970s to the 1990s, with a significant representation of people from the region of Trás-os-Montes and Mirandela, speaking those dialects. In all areas, recent decades have seen immigrants from other parts of the Lusophone world, especially Brazil, join those originally from Portugal.