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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
NYC's 'stooping' phenomenon: How people moving in Manhattan (and beyond) give new life to old goods – and find their next treasures
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.
He currently lives in New York City, [55] [13] flies commercial, [56] does not own a car, and prefers using public transport. [57] Newmark describes himself as a non-practicing, secular Jew, joking that his rabbi was the singer Leonard Cohen. [58] He is also a fan of Tori Amos, Lou Reed, [58] and the TV shows Pushing Daisies and The Simpsons. [59]
Huge windows overlook Park Avenue, offering an excellent vista of New York landmarks. Computers with internet access are available and a small reading area is adjacent to the main part of the room. The Heimbold Family Children's Playing and Learning Center is open during the week to children's center members, and open to the public on Saturdays ...
Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.