East Village immigration 2/3- 1894 - Veniero's | These three pictures were taken within one avenue block of the East Village and reflect the amazing change this neighborhood, city, and country have experienced in the last 4 generations or so.
11th Street near 1st Avenue, East Village, NYC
The venerable Veniero Pasticceria has been run at this location by the Veniero family since 1894. The neighborhood at that time would still have been very much "Kleindeutschland" and home to the 3rd largest German-speaking population on Earth. In the early 1900's, the Germans moved north, a move partially accelerated by the shattering General Slocum disaster. By the 1910's, this part of the neighborhood became an Italian enclave. I know someone whose Sicilian grandparents lived from 1910 to the 1930's on the block across from here.
September 10, 2010
