This facade fronts the former Deutsches Dispensary Bldg. (now Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital) on 2nd Ave, East Village, Manhattan. It originally served 150,000 people of German decent who composed the world's third largest "German city." #photography #travel #tourism #nyc #german #Kleindeutschland

Image & words quoted from http://www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/Life.html

which were very lively in the evenings.’
*Harper’s*, October 1878
Collection of Maggie Land Blanck
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In #OCTOBER 1878
‘Teutonic Regions in New York — Hot Summer Night’
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‘In the days before Air Conditioning and TV people escaped the hot tenements and took to the streets ➡️

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