Little Germany, Manhattan
Little Germany, known in German as Kleindeutschland and Deutschländle and called Dutchtown by contemporary non-Germans, was a German immigrant neighborhood on the Lower East Side and East Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The demography of the neighborhood began to change in the late 19th century, as non-German immigrants settled in the area. A steady decline of Germans among the population was accelerated in 1904, when the General Slocum disaster decimated the social core of the population with the loss of more than 1,000 lives.
The former Freie Bibliothek und Lesehalle ("Free Library and Reading Hall", left; now the Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library) and Deutsches Dispensary ("German Dispensary", right; now Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital) on Second Avenue in the East Village. Both NYC Landmarks were designed by William Schickel and built during 1883–1884.
Former German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St Mark's Place (1885) with inscription Einigkeit macht stark ("Unity strengthens") designed by William C. Frohne
Firefighters working to extinguish the General Slocum
The former St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church has been a synagogue since 1940
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East River from Canal to Houston streets. Historically, it was understood to encompass a much larger area, from Broadway to the East River and from East 14th Street to Fulton and Franklin Streets.
The corner of Orchard and Rivington Streets in the Lower East Side in 2005
Tenement buildings on the Lower East Side
The Lower East Side in the early 1900s
The Lower East Side and Lower Manhattan skyline photographed using Agfacolor in 1938.