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Jimmoe t1_j9vdixt wrote

The batshit statue of the Polish soldier with the bayonet-affixed rifle sticking out of his back. The subject matter has absolutely nothing to do with Jersey City, but that statue is oh-so-Jersey City.

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Jahooodie OP t1_j9xbcj7 wrote

We used to have a much larger Polish population

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boojieboy666 t1_j9vewlp wrote

Lots of polish immigrated here from the old country. My family came from Poland to greenpoint BK and then bought a house on Pine Street by LSP.

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Jimmoe t1_j9vm86r wrote

No, I get it. Like many other foreign nationals before and since, lots and lots of Poles made JC home. Heck, I'm at least a quarter Polish. But a memorial of that size in such a prominent position, commemorating an atrocity in the old country, is a little eccentric, wouldn't you say?

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boojieboy666 t1_j9vpbwx wrote

Yea that statue got put there back when New Yorkers wouldn’t be caught dead visiting jersey, let alone moving in.

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