Its residents have historically been diverse, with Jews building one of the first Long Island synagogues and African-Americans settling in the cozy Azurest section.

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Tsarnaeva arrived in the U.S. in 2002, settling in a working-class section of Cambridge, Mass.

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Filipinos began migrating to the waterfront city in the 1960s, settling in the Five Corners neighborhood in Journal Square and in more residential neighborhoods in the southwest section.

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