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As of 1999 120,000 people in Metro Detroit indicated they are of Greek descent. [1] Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit. [2] At the turn of the 20th Century the first Greek immigrants arrived. [1]
It has a station by that name on the city's elevated downtown transit system known as the Detroit People Mover. Greektown is situated between the Renaissance Center, Comerica Park, and Ford Field. Named for the historic Greek immigrant community of the early 20th century, the district still has Greek-themed restaurants.
Italians in Detroit (Images of America: a history of American life in images and texts). Arcadia Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0738539856, 9780738539850. Frangos, Stavros K. Greeks in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan). Michigan State University Press, May 2, 2012. ISBN 0870139142, 9780870139147. Mayer, Albert. Ethnic groups in Detroit, 1951.
Greek American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, about a Greek American family in Detroit. In 1967, Academy Award-winning film-director Elia Kazan published a novel, The Arrangement: A Novel, about a conflicted Greek American living a double life as an advertising executive and muckraking journalist ...
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Detroit is one of the Metropolises of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with 46 parishes. Its current bishop is Metropolitan Nicholas since 2002 [ 1 ] [ citation needed ]
Sent to Detroit in 1938 by J. Edgar Hoover, Bugas is perhaps the most consequential lawman in Detroit history. He led the fight against mobsters, corrupt politicians, auto plant theft rings and ...
The Greektown casino was one of eleven applications submitted to Detroit mayor Dennis Archer. [14] The $567-million proposal would include a temporary casino to open in 1998, followed by a permanent casino opening in 2000 with 128,170 square feet (11,907 m 2 ) of gaming space and 1,000 hotel rooms. [ 14 ]
That very same limestone was needed to match and replace giant exterior and interior blocks and columns holding up what would become the most ambitious restoration project in Detroit history ...