Little Germany, Manhattan
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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 neig
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.
Alphabet City, Manhattan
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Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-lett
Avenue C was designated Loisaida Avenue in recognition of the neighborhood's Puerto Rican heritage
Preserved salt marsh on Long Island comparable to ecosystem of Alphabet City area before urbanization in the 1820s
Depiction of shipyards in 1848 from across East River
Tompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library on E 10th St.