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German Traces NYC: A Project of Goethe Institut
Brigitte Doellgast, Anthony Cocciolo and Debbie Rabina
Goethe-Institut New York, NY
New York
URL: www.germantracesnyc.org/index.php
Last visited July 2013
Keywords Cities, Germany, United States of America
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-07-2013-0182
German Traces NYC is jointly produced by the Federal Republic of Germany's main cultural representation in the US, the Goethe-Institut New York, and the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science. It provides free historical information about thirty-eight landmarks in the former Kleindeutschland (in Manhattan's East Village) and Yorkville areas. It is intended to support both research and a tour of Manhattan's German landmarks.
An About the Project link provides a general introduction to the history of German immigration to New York City. Each landmark on the German Traces Map is indicated by a live map location point;...