Just as the German Jews of New York feared the influx of their co-religionists from eastern Europe, so established blacks felt their status was threatened by the arrival of unsophisticated rural folk with slow syrupy accents.
Within days of the attacks on New York and Washington, the FBI sent police forces in Europe a confidential list of suspects.
The family roots of both men are in the shtetls of Eastern Europe, both grew up in poor parts of New York and both excelled as students at Columbia.
Over cocktails at the Forbes Townhouse in New York the other day, the head of one of Europe's biggest insurance companies predicted that intervention might support the euro at about 88 U.S. cents for a spell, after which it would again start sinking, to 80 cents.
The watercolor study was originally bought by Eichenwald's parents, who brought it with them to the United States when the family fled the Nazi occupation of Europe in the 1930s and settled in New York.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner added some level of confidence to the market Wednesday during an interview with Jim Cramer at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York, where he said there is no chance that the institutions of Europe will let the euro fail.
But while the city that embraced the rule-breaking Bauhaus movement may have found a new role as the unofficial art capital of Europe, it's nothing like Paris or New York: No one teeters around its cobblestone streets in high heels, no one asks what anyone else does for a living or how much they make doing it.
The Wall Street Journal Europe is the European edition of The Wall Street Journal, the New York-based newspaper with an average weekday circulation of 2.1 million.
Born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants, Eisenstadt got a degree in statistics from the City College of New York and then went off to war in 1943, serving in Europe with the Army's 8th Armored Division.
Real estate mogul Jerry Speyer is the ultimate New York City power player, but much of the firm's recent activity is in China, Brazil and Europe.
Certainly a big metropolis like New York would seem as ripe for a scooter invasion as the cities of Europe, where a cluster of them precedes cars at every red light.
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New York, 28th of the 132 cities surveyed, is the most expensive destination outside Europe and Asia.
Nevertheless, despite Asian growth, global equities from Hong Kong to New York are in decline because of the systematic risk stemming from the U.S. and Europe.
The Wall Street Journal Europe is the European edition of The Wall Street Journal, the New York-based newspaper with an average weekday circulation of 2.1 million, the highest among U.S. newspapers.
New York City's airports are common layover spots for most of the planes crossing the Atlantic to Europe and points beyond.
Also supporting sentiment were comments from the president of the New York Federal Reserve on Thursday that helped spur hopes of more stimulus and investors also welcomed lower borrowing costs in Europe and strong lending data from China.
In the early 1990s forms of tuberculosis immune to an array of antibiotics emerged in New York and also became a persistent problem in eastern Europe and Asia.
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