Greek Neighborhoods in America

The communities Greek immigrants built across America — their founding, their peak, and where they stand today.

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Labor & Trades

Halsted Street: The Rise and Resilience of Chicago's Greektown

For more than a century, a stretch of South Halsted Street on Chicago's Near West Side has been the beating heart of Greek America…

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Postwar Migration

Little Athens on the East River: How Greeks Made Astoria Their Own

Astoria, Queens became the largest Greek community outside of Greece itself by the 1970s, a city within the city where the languag…

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Labor & Trades ·1905

The Sponge Divers of Tarpon Springs: A Dodecanese Village on the Gulf Coast

— John Cocoris, from Hydra, Greece

When John Cocoris arrived on the Gulf Coast of Florida in 1905, he brought with him a technology, a workforce, and an entire way o…

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Labor & Trades

Monroe Street: Detroit's Greektown and the Neighborhood That Outlasted the City Around It

Detroit's Greektown was built by immigrants who came for the auto industry and stayed to build churches, restaurants, and a commun…

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Labor & Trades

The Invisible Greektown: Baltimore's Lost Greek Neighborhood and Its Lasting Legacy

Baltimore's Greek community never achieved the fame of Chicago's or Astoria's, but for three decades in the early twentieth centur…

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