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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...

Culture & events

Celebrating a successful 2015 and looking ahead

Written by Jahaida Hernández Jesurum and Sabrina Axster Last week, New Women New Yorkers had a big reason to celebrate: Friday’s End-of-Year Bash marked the close of a successful 2015 and a jump-start to raising funds for its 2016 LEAD program series. More than 70 people joined in the celebration at the Old Stone House in Gowanus, Brooklyn for delicious food, cocktails, and an art and fashion sale in which most of the pieces — which included paintings, photographs, and...

Features & analyses

A look at international migration in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030

Written by Sabrina Axster   Most people in New York have, at some point in late September, run into a roadblock. Parts of Midtown were on complete lock-down for several days. Why? Like every year, hundreds of world leaders — including Barack Obama and presidents, prime ministers, and majesties from countries all over the world — came to take part in the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. Many of them joined  the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit which...