This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1496.1 Message Board Post: On 8/10/04 (11:17:12 AM MDT), in a posting to the Bronx County Ancestry Board that was 'gatewayed' to [email protected], Brenda Brandt ([email protected]) asked, "My cousin came to the US from Germany in the early 1950s. She and her boyfriend settled in NYcity where they married ans ran or owned and ran a resturant in the "German area". Can any one tell me where was considered the "German area" in the 1950s? I an trying to figure out in what county they might have lived." German tended to settle in the Yorkville neighborhood in the Borough of Manhattan, which is coterminous with New York County. Yorkville is just to the east of the Upper East Side, as shown on the following map of the neighborhoods in Manhattan: http://www.citidex.com/map/neigh800.html I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. L'Shannah Tovah* & Happy 5765, Walter Greenspan * L'Shannah Tovah (li-SHAH-nuh TOH-vuh; li-shah-NAH toh-VAH) Hebrew. Lit. for a good year. A common greeting during Rosh ha Shannah and Days of Awe. It is an abbreviation of L'shannah tovah tikatev v'taihatem (May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year). This year, Rosh ha Shannah begins at sunset on Wednesday, September 15 on the civil calendar.