Արեւմտահայերէն
Western Armenian
Douglaston-Little NeckSeveral waves of Western Armenian speakers, often highly multilingual, have arrived in New York City over the course of the 20th century. Many of the earliest migrants fled destitution and genocide in the Ottoman Empire, in what is today Turkey, and arrived via third countries, including Bulgarian-Armenians from Bulgaria; some 5,000 Romanian-Armenians (largely from Bucharest) who settled in Sunnyside thanks to the Displaced Persons Act; Lebanese Armenians fleeing the country's civil war; Armenians from Iran who arrived after the 1979 Revolution (though most went to LA).
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ollowing initial settlement in Manhattan, many Armenians began moving to Queens after the Second World War. The community in Sunnyside, also an important center for Romanian New Yorkers, was substantially Romanian-Armenian, and Baruir's, famous for its coffee, was founded by Baruir Nercessian, a genocide survivor who came to Queens via Romania. Later, many second- and third-generation Armenians in New York, like Greek communities, moved to eastern Queens neighborhoods such as Bayside and Douglaston-Little Neck.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.