Editing Paterson, New Jersey (section)

==Sister cities==
[[Sister cities]] of Paterson include:
*{{flagdeco|TUR}} [[Eskişehir]], Turkey, May 22, 2002<ref>[http://www.eskisehir-bld.gov.tr/spot_kardes_sehir.php Eskisehir Municipality's Sister Cities List]</ref>
*{{flagdeco|FRA}} [[Lyon]], [[Rhône (department)|Rhône]], [[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]], France<ref>Staff. [http://patersontimes.com/2013/06/28/mr-jones-wants-surat-as-a-sister-city/ "Mr. Jones wants Surat as a sister city"], ''Paterson Times'', June 28, 2013. Accessed August 25, 2015. "The city has sister city status with a number of municipalities around the world including with Lyon, France; Eskişehir, Turkey; and Yulin, China."</ref>
*{{flagdeco|IND}} [[Surat]], [[Gujarat]], India<ref>Malinconico, Joe; and Green, Jeff. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/paterson-mayor-reports-india-delegation-will-be-visiting-soon-1.611409 "Paterson mayor reports India delegation will be visiting soon"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', July 5, 2013. Accessed December 10, 2014. "Jones said he reached a sister-city agreement with Surat City that was signed by members of the Indian community's chamber of commerce."</ref>
*{{flagdeco|PSE}} [[Ramallah]], Palestine<ref>Adely, Hannan. [https://archive.is/wMugw "In nod to its Palestinian community, Paterson signs sister city agreement with Ramallah"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', Archived from the [https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/paterson/2023/06/26/paterson-nj-sister-city-ramallah-palestine/70343619007/ original] on June 26, 2023. Accessed May 19, 2025.</ref>
*{{flagdeco|IND}} [[Vadodara]], Gujarat, India<ref>Staff. [http://patersontimes.com/2013/06/28/mr-jones-wants-surat-as-a-sister-city/ "Mr. Jones wants Surat as a sister city"], ''Paterson Times'', June 28, 2013. Accessed August 5, 2014. "Jeffery Jones, the mayor of Paterson, during his much lambasted visit to India, has proposed to establish sister city link between the Indian city of Surat, a large diamond cutting town with a population of more than 4 million, and the city of Paterson, according to a local Indian newspaper."</ref>
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Yulin, Shaanxi|Yulin]], [[Shaanxi]], China<ref>Clunn, Nick. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329064938/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-200858348.html "Paterson Officials Invited To Sister City In China"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', December 10, 2011. Accessed December 10, 2014. "The expo is considered an important regional event for business interests in southeast China and Yulin City, which struck a 'friendship agreement' with Paterson."</ref>

===Friendship===
[[File:Montescaglioso Street.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Montescaglioso Street in Paterson]]
There is a pact of friendship with the town of [[Montescaglioso]] ([[Province of Matera|Matera]], [[Basilicata]], Italy), as testified by mutual naming of two streets in their city centers. Paterson was a place of Italian emigration from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s and today houses a large community of citizens of Montescaglioso who emigrated in those years.<ref name=ItaliansLOC>[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/paterson/essay2e.html Twenty-First Avenue: Place of Conjunction] ({{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601205047/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/paterson/essay2e.html|date=2011-06-01}}), [[Library of Congress]]. "Italians from that town found their way to Paterson and settled in the 21st Avenue area earlier in this century. This population increased over the years, at least in part because of the Italian practice of [[chain migration]]. The Paterson Montese community was fed by renewed immigration after World War II, from about the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, when immigration from Italy to the United States slowed considerably as a result of vastly improved economic conditions in Italy."</ref>

*"Avenue Paterson" in Montescaglioso<ref>[http://www.suditaliavideo.it/video-montescaglioso/17-comune-archivio-video/123-inaugurato-a-montescaglioso-viale-paterson.html Avenue Paterson]</ref>
*"Montescaglioso Street" in Paterson<ref>[http://www.suditaliavideo.it/video-montescaglioso/32-paterson-usa/2550-la-citt%C3%A0-di-paterson-n-j-%E2%80%93-stati-uniti-d%E2%80%99america-intitola-una-via-%E2%80%9Cmontescaglioso-street%E2%80%9D.html Montescaglioso Street]</ref>

The San Rocco Society was founded in Paterson, an association whose main purpose is to maintain sales relationships with the Italy, and in some ways the traditions.<ref>[http://www.old.consiglio.basilicata.it/mondo_basilicata/mb09-10/mb9-10-4.pdf Rassegna delle Associazioni Lucane nel Mondo]</ref>