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In the 1900 census the city had about 10.000 people of Finnish descent. A Finnish language newspaper, New Yorkin Uutiset (New York News), was published from 1906 to 1996. In 1930 the number of people with Finnish descent reached a bit over 20.000. In 2010 there lived 3000 Finns in the New York City metropolitan area. [2]
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
For Sale: Minnesota. Organized Promotion of Scandinavian Immigration, 1866–1873 (1971). Nelson, O. N. History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States (2 vol 1904); 886pp online full text also online review; Norman, Hans, and Harald Runblom. Transatlantic Connections: Nordic Migration to the New World After 1800 ...
Seminal protopunk musicians Iggy Pop of The Stooges and David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Don Dokken of the heavy metal band Dokken have Norwegian ancestry. Paul Waaktaar-Savoy of the synth pop band a-ha is Norwegian, having been born and raised in Oslo. He is a naturalized American citizen and has homes in both Oslo and New York City.
NYC's 'stooping' phenomenon: How people moving in Manhattan (and beyond) give new life to old goods – and find their next treasures ... “I used to see 'curb alert listings on Craigslist, but ...
The Sámi, the indigenous people of Sápmi (spanning parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula), have had a limited migration history to North America. Some Sámi individuals, particularly those involved in reindeer herding, migrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to assist in reindeer-based ...
The Scandinavia House Cultural Center at 58 Park Avenue in New York City. Scandinavia House – The Nordic Center in America is the American-Scandinavian Foundation's cultural center at 58 Park Avenue (between East 37th Street and East 38th Street), in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City.
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