NEWARK, N.J. — It was barely past noon Friday, and the Ironbound neighborhood in Newark was already a sea of red and white jerseys. Lines stretched down Ferry Street to get into Iberia, Mompou and other Portuguese restaurants. Red, green and gold garland draped across telephone poles. Portuguese songs blared from an open-air bar.
It was game time — Portugal vs. Spain in a World Cup first-round match — and all work in the thriving Portuguese enclave essentially stopped.
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