The city's main street features old, four-story brick buildings in the classic style of the industrial Northeast, with a sprinkling of ethnic restaurants and food markets and a memorial promenade dedicated to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Binghamton area is the birthplace of IBM, which has suffered job cuts in recent years.
The American Civic Association, the mayor said, has been "a mainstay of our community." The group assists immigrants and refugees with resettlement, citizenship, family reunification, interpreters and translators. Many of its clients fled war and conflict in other countries and are working to build new lives in the U.S., according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
Every pew was filled Friday evening at a candlelight vigil for the victims at Redeemer Lutheran Church.
