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Little Germany, Manhattan

40°43′34″N 73°58′53″W / 40.72611°N 73.98139°W / 40.72611; -73.98139

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.

Little Germany, known in German as Kleindeutschland and Deutschländle and called Dutchtown by contemporary non-Germans,[1] 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.

  1. ^ Nadel, p. 29, and note 6, p. 182, on the use of "Dutch" to mean "German"