On weekdays, many immigrants gather before dawn on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, waiting to be picked up to work in construction crews.

In federal court last week, Freehold lawyers agreed to allow immigrants to gather on public land to scout for work.

While the earliest settlers in Leominster were primarily of British ancestry, many immigrants soon gathered to work in Leominster's expanding factories.

They are spots where immigrants or other unsung Americans gathered for decades to pray, play dance music or drink beer.

It stretches for a dozen blocks along Roosevelt Avenue, where as many as 300 immigrants gather for jobs that pay $8 to $12 an hour.

In local bars where Hispanic immigrants gather, they complain that blacks are jealous of their economic success and are out to get them.

In classrooms and apartment bedrooms in Southside, immigrants gathered and studied citizenship exam sheets.

The rest of the drinking spots are the purely Irish ones, where the neighborhood's many recent Irish immigrants gather.

While the oldest inhabitants live in the skirts of the hill,Turkish immigrants coming from Yugoslavia and Bulgaria gathered in northern quarter of the zone.

Communities where immigrants gather face challenges to educate children speaking only Spanish whose parents often had limited schooling at home.