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Ridgewood +1Community Profile: Speakers of German language varieties were among the early colonists in New Amsterdam, but it was in the mid-19th century that New York became a Germanic-language metropolis of tremendous scale and diversity rivaled only by Berlin and Vienna. Initially the hub was Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), today the East Village, especially in the vicinity of Tompkins Square Park, but the community expanded widely from there across the region, with major hubs in Yorkville, north Brooklyn, Hoboken, and later much of Queens and Long Island.
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ermanic Queens began in the mid-19th century with the model industrial towns established near Astoria (by the Steinways' famous piano manufacturing firm) and in College Point (by entreprenuer and philanthropist Conrad Poppenhausen, also a pioneer of kindergarten in the US). In the early 20th century, newer German communities followed the expansion of breweries and other industries east from the substantial communities in Williamsburg and Bushwick through Ridgewood, Glendale, and numerous other areas of southern Queens, where German cultural institutions today are fewer but nonetheless remain.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.