Arlington is a neighborhood in Northwest
Baltimore, Maryland
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. Major streets running through the area include
Wabash Avenue,
Rogers Avenue,
Dolfield Avenue, and
West Belvedere Avenue. Two
Baltimore Metro Subway
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stations,
Rogers Avenue and
West Coldspring are located in the area.
Demographics
Arlington, along nearby
Pikesville
Pikesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Pikesville is just northwest of the Baltimore city limits. It is the northwestern suburb closest to Baltimore.
The population was 30,764 at the 2010 cens ...
, is home to a large
Russian-American
Russian Americans ( rus, русские американцы, r=russkiye amerikantsy, p= ˈruskʲɪje ɐmʲɪrʲɪˈkant͡sɨ) are Americans of full or partial Russians, Russian ancestry. The term can apply to recent Russian diaspora, Russian imm ...
population.
As of the late 1990s, Arlington was home to a population of 6,000 Russian-speaking Jews from
Russia
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,
Ukraine
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, and elsewhere in
Eastern Europe
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. By 2003, some 20,000 Jews of Russian origin lived in the Baltimore region, predominantly in Northwest Baltimore and nearby neighborhoods of Baltimore County.
Notable residents
Notable current and former residents of Arlington include:
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Sidney W. Bijou (1908–2009),
developmental psychologist
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.
See also
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List of Baltimore neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in the City of Baltimore are officially divided into nine geographical regions: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest, and Central, with each district patrolled by a respective precinct of the Baltim ...
References
External links
Northwest District MapsLive Baltimore, Arlington Neighborhood
Neighborhoods in Baltimore
Northwest Baltimore
Russian-American culture in Baltimore
Russian-Jewish culture in Baltimore
Ukrainian-Jewish culture in Baltimore
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