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I used to live in a neighborhood in Queens that's really Polish. It's the neighborhood my dad's side of the family comes from. I love going back to get some fresh, homemade potato/cheese pierogies
Cheektowaga, New York and Burbank, Illinois seem to have pretty significant Polish populations. Although both seem to be suburbs. (Of Buffalo and Chicago respectively)
City-Data indicates Wallington, New Jersey is indeed tops for people born in Poland. New Britain, Connecticut seems to have the highest percent for cities over 50,000. Wikipedia indicates New Britain's "Broad Street" is like a "Little Poland."
In Syracuse, the Polish community is centered around Sacred Heart and Transfiguration churches. SH church is on the West Side and Transfiguration is in the Lincoln Hill/Eastwood area Northeast of Downtown. Both still have mass in the Polish language.
I'll go in order of: New York City, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Pittsburgh as the Big 5.
Milwaukee has the third largest Polish pop. behind NY and Chicago. We have a lot polish people that have assimilated into mainstream America however I still on a regular basis I will be next to a stop light with someone who has a polish flag hanging from the mirror and I also hear polish spoken often around the city as well. Their still is polish bars and polish deli's and polish restaurants and of course polish fest. Kochankski's just opened on the south side that serves tyskie on tap and has the largest selection of polish beer in the city. Our polish pop is mainly on the south side and a lot of moved into the south suburbs as well. Even though a lot of Hispanics have moved into the near south side chances are if you see a white person their probably polish. You also see the white and red polish flag hanging from houses on the south side.
wow definatly not enough representation from Buffalo. Polonia, Kaisertown are just two of the little polands in Buffalo, South Buffalo is starting to get a bunch of them. the suburbs have a very large polish population, like cheektowaga, sloan, depew, lancaster and williamsville. the broadway market has long been home to polish shops, Buffalo is the Dyngus Day capital of the world.
Chicago's Northwest side is still the epicenter of Polish p[presence in America.
I dunno about that, there are zillions of them on the South Side along Archer.
Archer and Milwaukee, the Poles like the angle streets.
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