{"id":1075,"date":"2006-05-23T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/the_lapskaus_that_is_this_vibrant_city_is_that_much_less_rich_without_her.html"},"modified":"2006-05-23T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:27:18","slug":"the_lapskaus_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/the_lapskaus_th.html","title":{"rendered":"The Lapskaus That Is This Vibrant City Is That Much Less Rich Without Her"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brooklyn Paper reports (.pdf<\/a>) that the borough’s declining Norwegian population doomed this year’s Miss Norway competition:<\/p>\n

Thanks to a stunning shortage of Viking descendents, the venerable Miss Norway of Greater New York pageant has been cancelled — meaning
\nthat this Sunday’s 52nd annual Norwegian-American 17th of May Parade in Bay Ridge will have no sash-wearing, tiara-topped queen riding up Fifth Avenue in a convertible.<\/p>\n

“It’s sad,” said Josephine Beckmann, district manager of Community Board 10. “It’s going to be a emptier without Miss Norway.”<\/p>\n

The fault, as Shakespeare said, lies not in our stars, but in our selves. Norwegian-American population in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights has shrunk so dramatically that finding eager contestants has become as difficult as finding a bowl of fish pudding. Of course, it wasn’t always that way.<\/p>\n

“At one time, Bay Ridge was all Norwegian,” said Ken
\nJohnson, chair of the parade committee. “Eighth Avenue
\nwas known as ‘Lapskaus Boulevard,'” a reference to a beloved Norwegian salted meat stew.<\/p>\n

In 1940, nearly 35,000 Norwegians or Norwegian descendents lived in Brooklyn, mostly in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.<\/p>\n

Now, according to the 2000 Census, there are only 2,900.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brooklyn Paper reports (.pdf) that the borough’s declining Norwegian population doomed this year’s Miss Norway competition: Thanks to a stunning shortage of Viking descendents, the venerable Miss Norway of Greater New York pageant has been cancelled — meaning that this Sunday’s 52nd annual Norwegian-American 17th of May Parade in Bay Ridge will have no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}