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Features & analyses

Catch up: 6 blog posts from 2015 that you can’t miss

Written by Anna Archibald   The past year has been one for the books at New Women New Yorkers. Aside from successful first, second, third, and fourth runs of the LEAD Program, which provides professional training and support for young women immigrants in NYC, as well as a variety of other accomplishments, we’ve built an impressive team of bloggers — the majority of whom are young women immigrants themselves. In 2015, they wrote stories encompassing myriad issues surrounding women in...

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...

Culture & events / Features & analyses

Help Us Celebrate International Migrants Day

Written by Arielle Kandel   Today, December 18, is International Migrants Day — and there’s no better time to extend a welcoming hand to newcomers from all around the world. As a nation of immigrants, most of us have ancestors who came from distant lands and struggled to rebuild their lives here. It’s important to remember that, and to honor our immigrant heritage by helping those who are struggling today, those coming to the United States to seek new opportunities...

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...