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Deutschland in the US, Part IV: New York Germans today

Written by Sabrina Axster This is the fourth and final installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first, second and third installments.  Today, there are only 18,657 German-born residents in NYC, according to a 2013 report on foreign-born populations in NYC published by the Department of City Planning. The report tracks the number of foreign-born residents in NYC since the 1970s. These numbers are remarkably low in comparison to previous numbers and given that the overall population of...

Features & analyses

Deutschland in the US, Part III: The migration of Jewish Germans

Written by Sabrina Axster This is the third installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first and second installments.   One essential element of German migration to the US — and to NYC in particular — is that of Jewish Germans. Jewish immigration to America is traditionally divided into three categories: Sephardic, German, and Eastern European. But this doesn’t mean that there were no German Jews coming to the US during the periods of Sephardic or Eastern...

Features & analyses / NYC neighborhoods

Deutschland in the US, Part II: Coming to New York

Written by Sabrina Axster This is the second installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first installment. Germans contributed to the creation of New Amsterdam in the early 1620s. But immigrants from Germany first began to settle in Manhattan in high numbers in the 1830s. By 1855, the city had the third largest population of Germans in the world after Berlin and Vienna (roughly 30 percent of NYC’s inhabitants were first- or second-generation German immigrants) and by...

Features & analyses / NYC neighborhoods

Deutschland in the US, Part I: tracking German migration

Written by Sabrina Axster This is the first installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Recently, I convinced a Spanish friend of mine to try German food with me. Together we ventured to Zum Schneider in Alphabet City, one of the many German restaurants and beer gardens dotted across the city. While trying to explain to my friend that Zum Schneider really serves Bavarian food and that the dishes from my own region, the Rhineland, are very different (Germany...