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Yorkville +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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ven as the German community in today's East Village dissolved, a new Kleindeutschland (Little Germany) came into being in Yorkville, by the 1920s and 30s a major national hub for German-Americans (as well as other Central Europeans) and home to a wide array of cultural institutions representing speakers of many different Germanic varieties. Though diminished after the Second World War, Yorkville remained recognizably German to the end of the 20th century, with famed restaurants and stores along 86th Street near 2nd Avenue. St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church still hosts German-language services, and Heidelberg and Schaller and Weber continue the neighborhood's culinary traditions.
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