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Originally Posted by Artemis
Off Topic: well into the 19th century, Manhattan's West Side / North West Side was called " Bloomingdale", named by 17th century Dutch settlers of Bloemendaal, a city in Northern-Holland. It was a rural area with a couple of farms and small towns. Bloomingdale Road was opened in 1703 (located between 23rd and 147rd Street nowadays). In Dutch "Bloemendaal" means "Valley of flowers" ("bloemen = flowers and "daal"/"dal" is valley). In 1899, after being widened and paved, Bloomingdale Road was connected to and became an extension of Broadway. Undoubtedly, that's also where clothing giant Bloomingdale's got its name from.
Detailed maps of New York (New Amsterdam till 1664) (zoom in possible): - 1656 (1685 reprint): see here (U.S. Library of Congress);
- 1674: see here (Free University of Amsterdam).
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As I already stated somewhere: Peter Stuyvesant was born 10 miles from where I live
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Some Dutch place names in New York:
Battery Island (a batterij or battery of cannons was once stationed here)
Bronx (New York, after Jonas Bronck)
Broadway (Manhattan, after Breede Wegh which means broad road)
Brooklyn (New York, after Breukelen)
Bushwick (Brooklyn, after Boswijk)
Coney Island (Brooklyn, after Konijneneiland which means Rabbit Island)
Cornelia Street (Manhattan, after Cornelia Herring)
Dutch Kills (Queens, any local names ending in Kill are of Dutch origin)
Dutch Street (Manhattan)
Flushing (Queens, after Vlissingen)
Gravesend (Brooklyn, after 's Gravesande)
Greenwich Village (Manhattan, after Grenen wijk)
Harlem (New York, after Haarlem)
Hells Gate (New York, after Helle Gadt, referring to dangerous currents in the East River)
Hempstead (New York, after Heemstede)
Holland Tunnel, Holland Avenue
Long Island (New York, after "Lange Eylandt" named by Adriaen Block, 1614)
Nassau Street (Manhattan)
New Dorp (Staten Island, dorp means village)
New Utrecht Avenue (Brooklyn)
Rhode Island (after "Roodt eylandt" which means Red Island)
Spuyten Duyvil Creek (after Spuitende Duivel or Spitting Devil, referring to dangerous currents)
Staten Island (after Staten Generaal)
Wall Street (Manhattan, after the city wall around Nieuw-Amsterdam)
Yonkers (after Jonker, Jonkheer and jonge Heer)
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In '98 I was in NYC and stayed for a week in Harlem(at a Cuban girlfriend of my uncle's), awesome. Visited Twin Towers.....
Cheers
Robin