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New Square (Yiddish: שיכון סקווירא, romanized: Shikun Skvir) is an all-Hasidic village in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Hillcrest, east of Viola, south of New Hempstead, and west of New City. As of the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 9,679. Its inhabitants are predominantly members of the Skverer Hasidic hobby who strive for to preserve a Hasidic lifestyle disconnected from the secular world. It is the poorest town (measured by median income) in New York, and the eighth poorest in the United States. It then has the highest poverty rate, at 64.4%.

New Square is named after the Ukrainian town Skvyra, where the Skverer Hasidic organization originated. The founders expected to publish the settlement New Skvir, but a typist’s error anglicized the name. New Square was expected in 1954, when the Zemach David Corporation, representing Skverer Grand Rabbi Yakov Yosef Twersky, purchased a 130-acre (0.53 km) dairy farm near Spring Valley, New York, in the town of Ramapo. At that time, most Skverer members lived in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. New Square’s founders had felt that the Hasidic community in Williamsburg was being “threatened by assimilation”, as The New York Times later described it. Construction began in 1956, and the first four families moved to New Square in December 1956. In 1958, the pact had 68 houses.

The take forward of New Square was obstructed by Ramapo’s zoning regulations, which forbade the construction of multi-family houses and the use of basements for shops and stores. Multiple families sharing single-family houses said that they belonged to extended families, and businesses in private homes had to be secret. In 1959, the community asked for a building allow to fee its synagogue, located in the basement of a Cape Cod-style house. The Ramapo town attorney requested condemnation of the whole New Square community, claiming that it threatened sewage lines. In response, the community requested interest as a village, but Ramapo town officials refused to permit it. In 1961, a New York disclose court ruled in favor of New Square, and the village was incorporated in July of that year.