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27 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This is fantastic. It’s a digital atlas of NYC between 1850 and 1910, showing changing ethnicities of different neighborhoods.
Lower East Side: 1880 v. 1910. German immigrants "Kleindeustchland" (some Jewish and some not) in 1880 v. Russian Jewish immigrants in 1910.
In 1855, NYC was the third largest "German" city in the world after Berlin and Vienna.

lespi-nyc.org/kleindeutschla…
By 1910, Yorkville on the Upper East Side was the heaviest German neighborhood. But there were others, like my great grandfather, born in Lithuania (counted as "Russia" on the 1910 census) on 83rd street.
Here he is in 1930 on 83rd street. Says "Poland" here but that's because Svencionys, Lithuania was taken by Poland in 1921. His neighbors were born in Germany, Irish Free State, Greece, Holland and Northern Ireland.

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