Nieuw-Nederland, or

New Netherland New Netherland ( nl, Nieuw Nederland; la, Novum Belgium or ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the East Coast of the United States, east coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territor ...

, was the seventeenth-century colonial province of the

Republic of the Seven United Netherlands The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...

on northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory were the lands from the

Delmarva Peninsula The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a large peninsula and proposed state on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the vast majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore regions of Maryland and Virginia ...

to southern

Cape Cod Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...

. Settled areas are now part of the

northeastern The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

states of

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

, and southwestern

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

. There were small outposts in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

and

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...

. Its capital,

New Amsterdam New Amsterdam ( nl, Nieuw Amsterdam, or ) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The initial trading ''factory'' gave rise ...

, was located at the southern tip of the island of

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

on the

Upper New York Bay New York Harbor is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbors in t ...

. The most developed part of the province roughly corresponds to today's Tri-State area (New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut).

Overview

Placenames in most cases had their roots in

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

and the Algonquian languages, and occasionally the

Iroquoian The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking. As of 2020, all surviving Iroquoian la ...

Mohawk Mohawk may refer to: Related to Native Americans *Mohawk people, an indigenous people of North America (Canada and New York) *Mohawk language, the language spoken by the Mohawk people *Mohawk hairstyle, from a hairstyle once thought to have been t ...

. At the time of European settlement it was the territory of the various Native American groups. In many cases the names of the Natives Americans used today were taken from the word for the place they made their villages, or their sagamore. Both the Americans and the New Netherlanders often gave names inspired by the geography or geology of the natural environment and described a shape, location, feature, quality, or phenomenon. The

Lenape The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...

population, who had the most frequent contact with the New Netherlanders, were seasonally migrational groups around the

New York Bay New York Bay is the large tidal body of water in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary where the Hudson River, Raritan River, and Arthur Kill empty into the Atlantic Ocean between Sandy Hook and Rockaway Point. Geography New York Bay is usu ...

and along the

Lower Hudson The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. The region stretches from the Capital District, New York, Capital Di ...

who became known collectively as the

River Indians Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or ''Lenni-Lenape'' ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jerse ...

.Ruttenber, E.M.,''Indian Tribes of Hudson's River'', (Hope Farm Press, 3rd ed, 2001) Among them were the

Wecquaesgeek The Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest of today's Westchester County, New York,Their presence on the east bank of the ...

and

Siwanoy The Siwanoy () were an Indigenous American band of Wappinger people, who lived in Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of ...

(to the north on the east side of the

Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...

); the Hackensack, Raritan, the

Ramapough Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State. They were named after the Ramapough, a band of the Lenape Indians who migrated into the area from Connecti ...

, and Tappan (to the west); and the

Canarsee The Canarsee (also Canarse and Canarsie) were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s. They are credited with selling the island of M ...

and Rockaway (on western

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United Sta ...

). The

Munsee The Munsee (or Minsi or Muncee) or mə́n'si·w ( del, Monsiyok)Online Lenape Talking Dictionary, "Munsee Indians"Link/ref> are a subtribe of the Lenape, originally constituting one of the three great divisions of that nation and dwelling along t ...

inhabited the

Highlands Highland is a broad term for areas of higher elevation, such as a mountain range or mountainous plateau. Highland, Highlands, or The Highlands, may also refer to: Places Albania * Dukagjin Highlands Armenia * Armenian Highlands Australia *Sou ...

and western

Hudson Valley The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to ...

. The

Susquehannock The Susquehannock people, also called the Conestoga by some English settlers or Andastes were Iroquoian Native Americans who lived in areas adjacent to the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, ranging from its upper reaches in the southern p ...

, who lived along the Zuyd Rivier, were called the Minquas. The

, an

Iroquois The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to ...

people, inhabited the Albany region, and the

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...

that now bears the name. The

Mahicans The Mohican ( or , alternate spelling: Mahican) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes, they are related to the neighboring Lenape, wh ...

, defeated by the Mohawks, retreated to the

Housatonic River The Housatonic River ( ) is a river, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United S ...

region soon after the arrival of the Dutch. The Native Americans used

wampum Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western Nort ...

for transcription. The ''Swannekins'', or ''Salt Water People'' (as the Europeans were called), used the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and the o ...

to write down the words they heard from the ''Wilden'' (as the Lenape were called). These approximations were no doubt greatly influenced by Dutch, which was the

lingua franca A lingua franca (; ; for plurals see ), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups ...

of the multilingual province. Some names still exist in their altered form, their current spelling (and presumably pronunciation) having evolved over the last four centuries into American

vernacular A vernacular or vernacular language is in contrast with a "standard language". It refers to the language or dialect that is spoken by people that are inhabiting a particular country or region. The vernacular is typically the native language, n ...

. Early settlers and their descendants often " Batavianized" names for geographical locations, the

exonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...

s, rather than by their

autonym Autonym may refer to: * Autonym, the name used by a person to refer to themselves or their language; see Exonym and endonym * Autonym (botany), an automatically created infrageneric or infraspecific name See also * Nominotypical subspecies, in zo ...

, subsequently becoming the name of the Native Americans used today. In some cases it cannot be confirmed, or there is contention, as to whether the roots are in the Dutch or native tongue as sources do not always concur. Some can have several interpretations, while locative

suffixes In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the Stem (linguistics), stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the Grammatical conjugation ...

vary depending on the Algonquian language dialect that prevailed. ''

Kill Kill often refers to: *Homicide, one human killing another *cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death Kill may also refer to: Media *''Kill!'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto * ''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006 * ...

'', meaning ''stream'' or ''channel'', ''wyck'' meaning ''district'',Kramers Vertaalwoordenboek: Nederlands-Engels (or its English equivalents ''wick'' and ''wich''), and ''hook'' meaning ''point'' are often seen. Dutch surnames abound throughout the region as avenues, lakes, parks. Orange and Nassau come from the "first family" of the

Dutch Republic The United Provinces of the Netherlands, also known as the (Seven) United Provinces, officially as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Dutch: ''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden''), and commonly referred to in historiography ...

, a dynasty of nobles traditionally elected "

Stadtholder In the Low Countries, ''stadtholder'' ( nl, stadhouder ) was an office of steward, designated a medieval official and then a national leader. The ''stadtholder'' was the replacement of the duke or count of a province during the Burgundian and H ...

William III of England William III (William Henry; ; 4 November 16508 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of County of Holland, Holland, County of Zeeland, Zeeland, Lordship of Utrecht, Utrec ...

was also prince of

Orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower *Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum * ...

, succeeding to the English throne through the conquest known as the

Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution; gd, Rèabhlaid Ghlòrmhor; cy, Chwyldro Gogoneddus , also known as the ''Glorieuze Overtocht'' or ''Glorious Crossing'' in the Netherlands, is the sequence of events leading to the deposition of King James II and ...

, so the appellation Orange, though sometimes named for the English king in this period, reflects his Dutch birth and dynasty.

A

'' Acquackanonk''

The name of a Unami group who lived along and between the banks of the Passaic Neck and the name of one of the state's first townships, established in 1683. Meaning "a place in a rapid stream where fishing is done with a net," alternatively, "at the lamprey stream" from the contemporary ''axkwaakahnung''. Spellings include ''Achquakanonk'', ''Acquackanonk'', ''Auchaquackanock'', and ''Ackquekenon''.

''
Achter Col Achter Kol (or Achter Col) was the name given to the region around the Newark Bay and Hackensack River in northeastern New Jersey by the first European settlers to it and was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, originally adminis ...
''

Called ''Meghgectecock'' by the Lenape, this described the area around

Newark Bay Newark Bay is a tidal bay at the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in northeastern New Jersey. It is home to the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, the largest container shipping facility in Port of New York and New Jersey, t ...

and the rivers that flowed into it. Neither are any longer in use. ''Achter'', meaning "behind," and ''kol'', meaning "neck," can be translated as the ''back (of the) peninsula'', in this case

Bergen Neck Bergen Neck is the peninsula between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay in the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Bayonne and Jersey City. Its southernmost tip, Bergen Point, is separated from Staten Island by the Kill van Kull, ...

. Variations include ''Achter Kol'', ''Achter Kull'', ''Archer Col'', ''Achter Kull''. A col is a gap or pass between mountains, in this case

Bergen Hill Bergen Hill refers to the lower Hudson Palisades in New Jersey, where they emerge on Bergen Neck, which in turn is the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, and their bays. In Hudson County, it reaches a height of 260 feet. Rail ...

and the

Watchung Mountains The Watchung Mountains (once called the Blue Hills) are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States. The name is derived from the American Native Lena ...

, the flood-plain of

Hackensack River The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the subur ...

and

Passaic River Passaic River ( ) is a river, approximately long, in Northern New Jersey. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, ...

providing a passage between the them, thus, ''rear pass'' or ''rear passage''.

''
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
''

After the Dutch capital, originally a dam on the

Amstel River The Amstel () is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It flows from the Aarkanaal and Drecht in Nieuwveen northwards, passing Uithoorn, Amstelveen, and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, to the IJ in Amsterdam. Annually, the rive ...

founded in 1275.

'' Arresick''

tidal island A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands, many of them have been sites of ...

, site of the first ferry landing for the patroonship Pavonia, which became

Paulus Hook Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located across the river from Manhattan. The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land." This "point of land" ...

. Spellings include ''Arresick'', ''Arressechhonk'',New Jersey Colonial Records, East Jersey Records: Part 1-Volume 21, Calendar of Records 1664–1702 and ''Aresick'', meaning "burial ground."

''
Arthur Kill The Arthur Kill (sometimes referred to as the Staten Island Sound) is a tidal strait between Staten Island (also known as Richmond County), New York and Union and Middlesex counties, New Jersey. It is a major navigational channel of the Port of ...
''

Tidal strait A tidal strait is technically not a river but a strait connecting two oceans or seas. Tidal straits are narrow seaways through which tidal currents flow. Tidal currents are usually unidirectional but sometimes are bidirectional. They are frequent ...

separating

Staten Island Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull an ...

from the mainland. From '' kille'', meaning "water channel," such as a riverbed, rivulet, or stream. Likely to have evolved from ''

Achter Col Achter Kol (or Achter Col) was the name given to the region around the Newark Bay and Hackensack River in northeastern New Jersey by the first European settlers to it and was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, originally adminis ...

'', the name given by the

ers for the area surrounding

and the waters that flowed into it, as English-speakers immigrated to the region radiating from the

Elizabethtown Tract The Elizabethtown Tract was a property that was purchased on October 28, 1664, by John Baily, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson from the Native Americans that is in the area of (and surrounding) present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Native American ...

and

Perth Amboy Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Perth Amboy is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 55,436. Perth Amboy has a Hispanic majority population. In the 2010 census, th ...

B

'' Barnegat''

Originally ''Barendegat'' or "Inlet of the Breakers" for the waterway's turbulent channel.

''
Bedloe's Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in ...
''

Now known as

Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in ...

, under Dutch sovereignty the island became the property of Isaack Bedloo, merchant and "select burgher" of New Amsterdam, and one of 94 signers of the " Remonstrance of the People of New Netherlands to the Director-General and Council".

''
Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
''

Bergen Square

The forerunner of

Hudson Hudson may refer to: People * Hudson (given name) * Hudson (surname) * Henry Hudson, English explorer * Hudson (footballer, born 1986), Hudson Fernando Tobias de Carvalho, Brazilian football right-back * Hudson (footballer, born 1988), Hudso ...

and

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

counties. Believed to come from the word ''bergen'', which in Dutch and other

Germanic languages The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, Engli ...

of northern Europe means "mountains" or "hills", and could describe a most distinct geological feature of the region, the Palisades.Indigenous Population
". ''Bergencountyhistory.org''. Another interpretation is that it comes from the Dutch verb ''bergen'' as meaning "to save or recover" or the noun "place of safety", inspired by the settlers' return after they had fled attacks by the native population during the

Peach Tree War The Peach Tree War, also known as the Peach War, was a large-scale attack on September 15, 1655 by the Susquehannock Indians and allied tribes on several New Netherland settlements along the North River (Hudson River). The attack was motivated ...

. Some say that it is named for

Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p ...

in the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

or the city in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Bergen Street

In the contemporary

borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle Ag ...

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, Bergen Street was named for the family of one of the earliest settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam,

Hans Hansen Bergen Hans Hansen Bergen (–1654) was one of the earliest settlers of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, and one of the few from Scandinavia. He was a native of Bergen, Norway. Hans Hansen Bergen was a shipwright who served as overseer of an early tobacc ...

, who arrived in the province of New Netherland in 1633 as a ship's carpenter. He came from

, Norway, and was one of the few Scandinavian settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam (New York City). Bergen initially settled on Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan and later owned extensive plantations elsewhere on the island. Bergen later married

Sarah Rapelje Sarah Rapelje (9 June 1625 – 1685) was the first European Christian female born in New Netherland. Biography Sarah Rapelje was the daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje (1604-1663) and Catalina Trico (1605-1689), who were Walloon Calvinists who sa ...

, the first child born in New York state of European parents.

'' Beversreede''

The fort on the

Schuylkill River The Schuylkill River ( , ) is a river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania. The river was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal, and several of its tributaries drain major parts of Pennsylvania's Coal Region. It fl ...

. A possible translation could be "Beavers Gap," from ''bever'' ("beaver") and ''reet'' (''opening'' / ''cleft''), which would speak to its location where it enters the

. More probably ''reede'' meant a "quai" in the harbor (cf. today's Dutch ''rede''). Alternatively, adjacent to (or opposite) the fort was the terminus of the

Great Minquas Path ''Great Minquas Path'' (or ''The Great Trail'') was a 17th-century trade route that ran through southeastern Pennsylvania from the Susquehanna River, near Conestoga, to the Schuylkill River, opposite Philadelphia. The 80-mile (130 km) east-w ...

, an 80-mile (130 km) trail from the

Susquehanna River The Susquehanna River (; Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast and the Upland South. At long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the ...

to the

. This was the primary trade route for furs from the

people, and the Dutch named the trail ''Beversreede'', "Beaver Road." However, 'rede' is Dutch for roadstead (anchorage) so the explanation 'quai' makes the most sense.

''
Beverwyck Beverwijck ( ; ), often written using the pre-reform orthography Beverwyck, was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was renamed and developed as Albany, New York, after the English took contro ...
''

Loosely, "Beavertown," to refer a fur-trading community north of

Fort Orange Fort Orange ( nl, Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city of Albany, New York developed at this site. It was built in 1624 as a replacement for Fort Nassau, which had been built on nearb ...

. It is unlikely to be named after

Beverwijk Beverwijk () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town is located about northwest of Amsterdam in the Randstad metropolitan area, north of the North Sea Canal very close to the North Sea coast. A ...

in the

, whose name comes from ''Bedevaartswijk'', "pilgrimage neighbourhood." (

Agatha of Sicily Agatha of Sicily () is a Christian saint. Her feast is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily, and was martyred . She is one of several virgin martyrs who are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mas ...

allegedly appeared there in the 9th century to a virgin from nearby

Velsen Velsen () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal. On the north side of the North Sea Canal there is a major steel plant, Tata Steel IJmuiden, formerly known a ...

''
Blauvelt Blauvelt is a hamlet and census-designated place, formerly known as Greenbush and then Blauveltville, in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Tappan, east of Nauraushaun and Pearl River, south ...
''

From a Dutch family name. The first Blauvelt in America was a peasant farmer who worked on Kiliaen van Rensselaer's estate cultivating tobacco in 1638. The same Dutch family name lies at the origin of Bluefields Bay in Jamaica and Bluefields in Nicaragua – after Abraham Blauvelt, Dutch trader, explorer, pirate and privateer. He operated from New Amsterdam from 1644.

''
Block Island Block Island is an island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island located in Block Island Sound approximately south of the mainland and east of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It is part of Washingt ...
''

Named after the explorer

Adriaen Block Adriaen (Arjan) Block (c. 1567 – buried April 27, 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four v ...

who used the island as a base from which to survey the

Connecticut River The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states. It rises 300 yards (270 m) south of the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges at Long Island ...

and

Long Island Sound Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York to the south. From west to east, the sound stretches from the Eas ...

'' Bloomingdale''

The "valley of flowers," it is likely named for a village in the Netherlands, the

Upper West Side The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110th Street to the north. The Upper West ...

in general (its northern reaches now as known as the

Bloomingdale District Manhattan Valley (also known as Bloomingdale ) is a neighborhood in the northern part of Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, ...

) may have had some characteristics that would have reminded the

Netherlanders The Dutch (Dutch language, Dutch: ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Netherlands. They share a common history and culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, ...

of their home: close to the shore with a sandy bluff, with many small valleys or ( dells). In analogy to the Dutch village of Bloemendaal lying next to the town of Haarlem, so the Dutch settlers seemed to have named the small settlement next to the village of Harlem on Manhattan.

''
Bowery The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.Jackson, Kenneth L. "B ...
''

''Bouwerij'' was the old Dutch word for farm (contemporary ''boerderij''). The

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mapped out land for farms on Manhattan north of

, the first of which, "Bouerij 1" (later known as

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) was reserved for the support of the colony's director-general. It became the personal property of

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, the person to hold the position.

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''

''Breede weg'' was used throughout English-speaking areas to refer to a wide (broad) path (way).

'' Breuckelen''

The first of the six Dutch towns of

settled in 1646, generally believed to be after the town in the

, in the province of

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, now spelled

Breukelen Breukelen () is a town and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It is situated to the north west of Utrecht, along the river Vecht and close to the lakes of the Loosdrechtse Plassen, an area of natural and tourist ...

''
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''

Named after

Jonas Bronck Jonas Bronck (alternatively Jonas Jonsson Brunk, Jonas Jonasson Bronk, or Jonas Jonassen Bronck) was born around year 1600 and died in 1643. Bronck was an immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, and by extension ...

, the first recorded European settler to the peninsula. It was called ''Rananchqua'' by the native

band of

, while other Native Americans knew the Bronx as ''Keskeskeck''. It was divided by the

Aquahung The Bronx River (), approximately long, flows through southeast New York in the United States and drains an area of . It is named after colonial settler Jonas Bronck. Besides the Hutchinson River, the Bronx River is the only fresh water river i ...

River. The Bronck family later moved upstate and built

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Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
''

Blaeu - Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (Detail Hudson Area)

Early maps refer to western

as ''Gebroken Land'', or "Broken Land," though most believe the city, and later borough, was named for the Dutch town whose contemporary spelling is ''

''. Some say the name evolved from Breuckelen, to Brockland, to Brocklin, to Brookline, and eventually, Brooklyn.

''
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''

The last of the six Dutch towns of

settled in 1661 as '' Boswijck'', in essence "little town in the woods,"Kenneth T. Jackson. ''The Encyclopedia of New York City'': The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press; 1995. p. 171. though a literal translation would be "woods district."

C

''
Canarsie Canarsie ( ) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and East 108th Street; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph Aven ...
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''Canarsie'' stems from the

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for ''"fenced land"'' or ''"fort."'' The current neighborhood in Brooklyn lies within the former town of Flatlands, one of the five original Dutch towns on

''
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''

''Fort Casimir'' The

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was named for

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, count of

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and

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Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

and

Drenthe Drenthe () is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of Nov ...

in the

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After

Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen (also Tymen; Thymen; Hinloopen; 1572–1637), was one of the leaders of the Dutch merchant and whaling company of Noordsche Compagnie beginning in 1617 and participant in the New Netherland Company, interested in furs. Thi ...

, wealthy grain trader and business partner of Cornelius Jacobsz May who helped finance explorations of the region.

''
Cape May Cape May consists of a peninsula and barrier island system in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is roughly coterminous with Cape May County, New Jersey, Cape May County and runs southwards from the New Jersey mainland, separating Delaware Bay fro ...
''

After Cornelius Jacobsz May.

'' Catskill''

''Kil'' is the Dutch word for a river inlet. This one is named after the

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named Cats.

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The Caven Point settlement at Minkakwa on the west shore of the

between Pamrapo and

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was part of Pavonia, and now part of

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. The name Caven is an

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of the Dutch word ''Kewan''. which in turn was a " Batavianized" derivative of an Algonquian word meaning peninsula.

'' Claverack''

''Rack'' or ''rak'' is a straight stretch of river good for anchorage, one named for the''clover'' that grew on its banks of the

'' Cohoes''

Once part of the

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. Believed to arise from a

expression ''Ga-ha-oose'' which refers to

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and means ''Place of the Falling Canoe''

'' Colonie''

Once part of the

, now north of Albany

''
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''

Fresh Water PondKenneth T. Jackson (1995). p. 250. near the southern tip of

, covering approximately 48 acres (194,000 m²) and running as deep as . The pond was fed by an underground spring, and its outflow ran through the Lispenard Meadows marshes to the

. The name''Collect'' is a corruption of the Dutch word ''kolch'' (a small body of water), which was subsequently corrupted to ''kalch'', and so on until it became ''Collect''.

''
Communipaw Communipaw is a neighborhood in Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It is located west of Liberty State Park Liberty State Park (LSP) is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City ...
''

Site of summer encampment and counsel fire of the

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. Spellings include ''Gamoenapa,'' ''Gemonepan,''Joan F. Doherty, Hudson County The Left Bank, (Windsor Publications, Inc., 1986) ''Gemoenepaen,'' ''Gamenepaw'', ''Comounepaw'', ''Comounepan'', Communipau, Goneuipan From ''gamunk'', ''on the other side of the river'', and ''pe-auke'', ''water-land'', meaning ''big landing-place from the other side of the river''. Contemporary: ''gamuck'' meaning ''other side of the water'' or ''otherside of the river''The Lenape/English Dictionary http://www.gilwell.com/lenape or ''landing place at the side of a river'' Site of first ''"

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"'' built at Pavonia and called Jan de Lacher's Hoeck some have suggested that it comes from ''Community of Pauw'', which likely is more a coincidence that a fact.Gannett, Ganett, Henry, ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in The United States''

''
Colen Donck Colen Donck (in English "Donck's Colony") was a 24,000 acre (97 km2) patroonship in New Netherland along the southern Hudson River in today's Bronx and Yonkers established by Dutch-American lawyer and land developer Adriaen van der Donck. His ...
''

Now

Yonkers Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...

, from homestead of ''Jonkheer'' or ''Jonker'' (meaning ''esquire'')

Adriaen van der Donck Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (16181655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific ''Jonkheer'' the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as sometimes claimed, the first lawyer in the Dutch colo ...

''
Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach to its east, L ...
''

''Konynen Eylant'' meaning ''Rabbit Island''

''
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''

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''quinnitukqut'', meaning "place of long tidal river".

''
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''

A land grant to Jacob Jacobsen Roy who was a chief gunner or constable in Fort Amsterdam in

in 1646, by the

, under the leadership of

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William Kieft Willem Kieft (September 1597 – September 27, 1647) was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam was the capital) from 1638 to 1647. Life and career Willem Kieft was appointed to the rank of director ...

. ''Konstapel's Hoeck'' in Dutch, takes its name from Roy's title. A ''hoek'' or ''hoeck'' in Dutch meaning a spit of land or small peninsula. Though not used, could be translated to English as ''Gunner's Point.''

'' Cortelyou''

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in Brooklyn is named for

Jacques Cortelyou Jacques Cortelyou (ca 1625–1693) was an influential early citizen of New Amsterdam (later New York City) who was Surveyor General of the early Dutch colony. Cortelyou's main accomplishment was the so-called Cortelyou Survey, the first map of New ...

's Surveyor General, who owned land in the area of Flatbush.

'' Cortlandt''

From the prominent family Van Cortlandt, including

Stephanus van Cortlandt Stephanus van Cortlandt (May 7, 1643 – November 25, 1700) was the first native-born mayor of New York City, a position which he held from 1677 to 1678 and from 1686 to 1688. He was the patroon of Van Cortlandt Manor and was on the governor's ...

(born 1643) the first native born

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(1677–1678; 1686–1688)

'' Cromakill''

Likely from ''kromme kille'' meaning ''crooked creek'', border between

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. Similar to evolution of '' Gramercy'', which is a corruption of the ''krom mesje'', or ''little crooked knife,'' the name of a small brook that flowed along what is now 21st Street in

.Gramercy Park profile
, ''

''. Retrieved 30 September 2007. "Originally called Crommessie (from Krom Mesje, Dutch for "crooked little knife") Wpdms terra killvankull

''
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''

D

'' Danskammer''

, literally ''dance chamber'', meaning

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. On their voyage upriver in 1609

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's crew supposedly saw Native Americans dancing around a fire at the site and thought they were looking at "the

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's dance chamber". There was once a lighthouse, Danskammer Point Light, at the site.

''
Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
''

From Thomas West, 3rd (or 12th) Baron of

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, or Lord Delaware, who served as governor of the

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'' Dunderberg''

''Thunder Mountain''

'' Dunkerhook''

Literally ''dark corner''. Small section of suburban Paramus reputed to be the former site of a "slave community." According to local histories and an historic marker at the site, Dunkerhook was once home to a population of African Americans, many or all of whom were slaves, as well as a "slave school" and "slave church." However, primary historic documentation establishes that Dunkerhook was populated not by slaves, but rather primarily by free African Americans.

''
Dwars Kill The Dwars Kill (also known as Dwarskill or Dwarskill Creek) is a tributary of the Hackensack River (Oradell Reservoir) in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States. The name is taken from the Dutch language and can be translated as "Cross Cr ...
''

Alternatively ''Dwarskill'' or ''Dwarskill Creek'', a

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...

of the

Oradell Reservoir The Oradell Reservoir is a reservoir formed by the Oradell Reservoir Dam on the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Geography The Oradell Reservoir Dam is located primarily in the borough of Oradell, but the reservoir ...

meaning ''cross creek''

E

'' Esopus''

For the clan of

who lived in the region in the mid

F

'' Flatlands''

One of the six Dutch towns of Brooklyn settled in 1647 as ''Nieuw

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'', from the Dutch city of the same name.

'' Flatbush''

A description of the terrain, in Dutch ''Vlacke Bos''. One of the six Dutch towns in

, established in 1652 as '' Midwout'', the earlier name living on as Midwood.

''
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''

From the Dutch town of

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. The derivation of the name Vlissingen is unclear, though most scholars relate the name to the word ''fles'' (''bottle'') in one way or another.

G

''
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''

From the

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city

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, in

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, ...

, which historians believe is derived from the Celtic word 'ganda' which means ''

confluence In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...

''.

'' Gramercy''

A corruption of the little river named ''Krom Moerasje'' meaning ''(small) crooked marsh''

'' Goede Hoop''

''Good Hope'', from ''Fort Huys de Goede Hoop'', a fortress on the Fresh River and Park River, the 1633 founding of

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''
Gowanus Gowanus ( ) is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 6. Gowanus is bounded by Wyckoff Street on ...
''

''Gowanes Creek'' after ''Gouwane'', a

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of the

The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club,
Gowanus Canal History
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''
Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the Bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Ro ...
''

Settled in 1645 under Dutch patent by English followers of

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Lady Deborah Moody Deborah, Lady Moody (born Deborah Dunch) (1586– circa 1659) is notable as the founder of Gravesend, Brooklyn, and is the only woman known to have started a village in colonial America. She was the first known female landowner in the New World. A ...

. Some speculate that it was named after the English seaport of

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. An alternative explanation suggests that it was named by

Willem Kieft Willem Kieft (September 1597 – September 27, 1647) was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam was the capital) from 1638 to 1647. Life and career Willem Kieft was appointed to the rank of director b ...

for the Dutch settlement of ''Gravesande'', which means ''Count's Beach'' or ''Count's Sand''.

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is a city in the

''
Guilderland Guilderland is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. In the 2020 census, the town had a population of 36,848. The town is named for the Gelderland province in the Netherlands. The town of Guilderland is on the central-northwest borde ...
''

Popular lore has it that is comes from ''Moneyland'', explained as referring to early Dutch settler's assumption that the large amount of sand in the area could generate a profitable glass industry. More likely is that it derives from the name of the province of

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in the

, from whence came many Dutch settlers. It may have been originally Gelterland or Gelterlan. Until the introduction of the euro, modern Dutch currency was the

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H

'' Hackensack''

The meadowlands,

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and

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, the

Hackensack tribe Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or ''Lenni-Lenape'' ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jerse ...

and their territory, take their name from site of semi-permanent encampment on the neck between the river and

Overpeck Creek Overpeck Creek is a tributary of the Hackensack River, approximately long, in Bergen County in northeastern New Jersey in the United States. The lower broad mouth of the creek is part of the extended tidal estuary of the lower Hackensack and of t ...

, near the Teaneck Ridge. Variously translated as ''place of stony ground'' or ''place of sharp ground''. Spellings include ''Ahkingeesahkuy'', ''Achsinnigeu-haki'', Achinigeu-hach, Ack-kinkas-hacky, Achkinhenhcky, Ackingsah-sack, Ackinckeshacky, ''Hackinsack'' Alternatively, suggested as the ''place where two rivers come together on low ground'' or ''stream which discharges itself into another on the level ground'', which would speak to the confluence of the Hackensack and

''
Halfmoon The halfmoon (''Medialuna californiensis''), also known as the blue perch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the subfamily Scorpidinae, part of the family Kyphosidae. It is native to the coasts of the eastern Pacific Ocean ...
''

Named in the 19th century for the crescent shape of the land between the

and

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, and is coincidentally the same as

Halve Maen ''Halve Maen'' (; en, Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company '' vlieboot'' (similar to a carrack) that sailed into what is now New York Harbor in September 1609. She was commissioned by the VOC Chamber of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to ...

, the ship captained by

during his 1609 exploration of the river named for him.

''
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''

Originally ''Nieuw Haarlem'' after a major Dutch city

''
Harsimus Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christoph ...
''

Possibly ''Crow's Marsh''. Site of a seasonal Hackensack encampment and one of first ''" bouweries"'' built by Dutch settlers at Pavonia. Spellings include: ''Aharsimus'', ''Ahasimus'', ''Hasymes'', ''Haassemus, Hahassemes, Hasimus, Horseemes'', ''Hasseme'', ''Horsimus'' Contemporary: ''ahas'' meaning ''crow''

''
Haverstraw Haverstraw is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the Town of Clarkstown and the Town of Ramapo; east of Orange County; south of the Town of Stony Point; and west of the Hudson River. The town runs from the we ...
''

One of the first locales to appear on maps of North America, listed as ''Haverstroo'', which means ''oat straw''. It was common for the

to use straw thatch for roofs on their dwellings, or

wigwams A wigwam, wickiup, wetu (Wampanoag), or wiigiwaam (Ojibwe, in syllabics: ) is a semi-permanent domed dwelling formerly used by certain Native American tribes and First Nations people and still used for ceremonial events. The term ''wickiup'' ...

''
Hell Gate Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City. It separates Astoria, Queens, from Randall's and Wards Islands. Etymology The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase ''Hellegat'' (it first appeared on ...
''

''Hellegat'' meaning ''Hell's Passage'' because of its violent currents

'' Hemsteede''

''Homestead'' or ''farmyard''. The town was first settled around 1644 following the establishment of a treaty between English colonists, John Carman and Robert Fordham, and the Indians in 1643. Although the settlers were from the English colony of

, a patent was issued by

after the settlers had purchased land from the local natives. The town may have been named for either

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in the United Kingdom or the Dutch city of

Heemstede Heemstede () is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the fourth richest municipality of the Netherlands. History Heemstede formed around the Castle ''Heemstede'' that was built overlooking the ...

, a town south of

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

, Netherlands. Site of early English incurisons in

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ers, in 1643

''
Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...
''

"Batavianization" of the

''tobacco pipe'', from ''hoopookum'' or ''hupoken''. Most likely to refer to the

soapstone Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in the zo ...

collected there to carve

tobacco pipe A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem (shank) emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. Pipes can range from very simp ...

s, in a phrase that became ''Hopoghan Hackingh'' or ''place of stone for the tobacco pipe''. (Contemporary: ''Hopoakan'' meaning ''pipe for smoking'') Alternatively from ''Hoebuck'', old Dutch for high bluff and likely referring to

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''Hoboken Reporter'' 16 January 2005 Variations used during the colonial era included ''Hobock'', ''Hobocan'',''Hoboocken'', and ''Hobuck'', Although the spelling''Hoboken'' was used by the English as early as 1668, it doesn't appear that until Col. John Steven purchased the land on which the city is situated that it became common. Some would believe the city to be named after European town of the same name. The

Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...

, annexed in 1983 to

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

, Belgium, is derived from Middle Dutch ''Hooghe Buechen'' or ''Hoge Beuken'', meaning ''High

Beech Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...

es'' or ''Tall Beeches''. Established in 1135, the New Netherlanders were likely aware of its existence (and may have pronounced the Lenape to conform a more familiar sound), but it is doubtful that the city on the Hudson is named for it.

'' Housatonic''

From the

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phrase ''usi-a-di-en-uk'' translated as ''beyond the mountain place''.

''
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''

The

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and numerous other places that bear this name most likely do so for the English sea captain

who explored the region in 1609, establishing a claim for the

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and

J

''
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''

Settled as ''Rustdorp'' with a 1656

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. English renamed it ''Jameco'' for ''Yamecah'', a Native American. Alternatively, from "Jameco" after a

word for "beaver".

K

''
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''

Separating

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and

. From the Middle

word '' kille'', meaning ''riverbed'' or ''water channel.'' Likely evolved from ''

'', as in ''kille van kol'', or ''channel from the neck'', its spellings including ''Kill von Cull'', ''Kille van Cole'', ''Kill van Koll''

'' Kinderhook''

''Kinderhoek'' meaning ''children's corner''

''
Kinderkamack County Route 503 (CR 503) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends 17.95 miles (28.89 kilometers) from Paterson Plank Road ( Route 120) in East Rutherford to the New York state line at the Montvale NJ/ Pearl River ...
''

Describes the area along middle reaches of

, ''kamak'' said to come from the Lenape and mean ''place of ceremonial dance and worship'' possible spellings include ''Kinkachgemeck'',

''
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''

, "lookout" in Dutch (though currently spelled "''kijkuit''"). It is situated in

Pocantico Hills Pocantico Hills is a hamlet in the Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States. The Rockefeller family estate, anchored by Kykuit, the family seat built by John D. Rockefeller Sr., is located in Pocantico Hills, as is the a ...

, on the highest point of the local surrounds near

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and Sleepy Hollow.

L

'' Lange Eylant''

''Long Island''

M

'' Mahwah''

''Mawewi'' meaning ''meeting place'' or ''place where paths meet'' 8] or ''assembly'' Contemporary: ''mawemin'' see:

'' Manalapan, New Jersey, Manalapan''

''Manalapan'' meaning "land of good bread" or "good land to settle upon".

''
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
''

From ''Manna-hata'', as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on

's yacht ''

'' (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name''Manahata'' twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the

). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as ''island of many hills''.Holloway, Marguerite
"Urban tactics; I'll Take Mannahatta"
, ''

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''. "He could envision what Henry Hudson saw in 1609 as he sailed along Mannahatta, which in the Lenape dialect most likely meant''island of many hills.'' ''

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'' offers other derivations, including from the Munsee

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of Lenape:''manahachtanienk'' ("place of general

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"), ''manahatouh'' ("place where timber is procured for bows and arrows"), or ''menatay''("island").

''
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''

From ''

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'' translated as ''at the bad waterplace'' relating to the many stagnant swamps that existed in the area. Purchased in 1635, and within a few years began chartering towns. In 1642 they settled Maspat, under a charter granted to Rev. Francis Doughty. Maspat became the first European settlement in

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

. The settlement was leveled the following year in an attack by Native Indians, and the surviving settlers returned to Manhattan. It wasn't until nine years later, in 1652, that settlers ventured back to the area, settling an area slightly inland from the previous Maspat Maspeth creek from 49th Street end jeh

''
Massapequa Massapequa (, ) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is considered the anchor community of the Greater Massapequa area. The p ...
''

'' Meghgectecock''

This is perhaps an approximation of ''masgichteu-cunk'' meaning ''where May-apples grow'', from a moist-woodland perennial that bears edible yellow berries and used to describe the lobe of land between and the confluence of the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers at Newark Bay. It was part of

for the New Netherlanders and

New Barbadoes Neck New Barbadoes Neck is the name given in the colonial era for the peninsula in northeastern New Jersey, US between the lower Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, in what is now western Hudson County and southern Bergen County. The neck begins in the ...

to the British. Contemporary: ''masgichteu'' meaning ''may apple''

'' Midwout''

''Middle woods'', settled in 1652, in this case between Boswijck and Breuckelen, because of its dense forests. Later, was part of old Flatbush, situated between the towns of

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and Flatlands.BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS.. Present & Past
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''
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''

From the

''where the stones are gathered''

'' Mineola''

Named in 1858 after an Algonquian Indian chief, Miniolagamika, meaning 'pleasant village'; later shortened and altered to "Mineola."

'' Minkakwa''

between Pamrapo and

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, first settled by New Netherlanders in 1647. Spellings include ''Minelque'' and ''Minkakwa'' meaning ''a place of good crossing'' probably because it was the most convenient pass between the two bays on either side of the neck, (or could mean ''place where the coves meet''; in this case where they are closest to each other and, hence advantageous for portage.)

''
Minetta Lane Greenwich Village ( , , ) is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village a ...
''

From "mintje kill", or small stream or brook.

'' Moodna''

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of the

''moordenaars'', meaning ''murderers'', hence ''Murderers' Creek'', its original name. Local lore has it that the name came from the massacre of the Stacys, an early family of settlers, along its banks.Murphy, Glen
Town of New Windsor Online History

'' Moonachie''

''Ground hog, badger, or place of dug up earth'' Contemporary:''monachgeu'' for ''groundhog'', and ''munhacke'' for ''badger'' and ''munhageen'' meaning'' to dig a hole'' North River Gutenberg jeh

N

''
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''

From the

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'' Navesink''

from the group of

and their territory

'' Noort Rivier''

Called '' Muhheakantuck'' or ''the river that flowed two ways'' in Unami. The ''Noort Rivier'' was one of the three main rivers in

, the others being the '' Versche Rivier'' or ''Fresh River'' (likely because of its sweet water) and the '' Zuid Rivier'' or ''South River.'' In maritime usage, it still defines that part of the

between

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and

'' Nieuw Dorp''

Now

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, meaning ''New Village'', on

''
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''

Fifth of the six Dutch towns of

; established in 1652 and named after major Dutch city.

'' Nyack''

from ''Nay-ak'' meaning ''fishing place''

O

'' Oester Baai''

After 1650, ''Oyster Bay'' was the boundary between the Dutch

colony and the

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. The English, under Peter Wright, first settled in the area in 1653. The boundary was somewhat fluid which led to each group having their own Main Street.

''
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From the

, specifically

, the

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, as in

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and

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in Essex County

'' Ossining''

Early 17th-century Dutch maps of the Hudson River Valley show an Indian village, whose inhabitants were part of the

Tribe, named "Sint Sinck." That phrase, when translated, means "stone upon stone" and refers to the extensive beds of limestone found in the southern part of the village. In 1685, the Sint Sincks sold their land to

Frederick Philipse Frederick Philipse (born Frederick Flypsen;Appleton, W.S. ''The Heraldic Journal, Recording the Amorial Bearings and Genealogies of American Families'', Wiggen & Lunt, Boston, 1867 1626 in Bolsward, Netherlands – December 23, 1702), first Lord ...

who incorporated it into his land holdings known as the Manor of Philipsburg. The Manor comprised about and extended from

Spuyten Duyvil Creek Spuyten Duyvil Creek () is a short tidal estuary in New York City connecting the Hudson River to the Harlem River Ship Canal and then on to the Harlem River. The confluence of the three water bodies separate the island of Manhattan from th ...

at the tip of Manhattan on the south to the

Croton River The Croton River ( ) is a river in southern New York with three principal tributaries: the West Branch, Middle Branch, and East Branch. Their waters, all part of the New York City water supply system, join downstream from the Croton Falls Rese ...

just north of the Village of Ossining. The land was leased to tenant farmers of Dutch, French, and English origin.

'' Oude Dorpe''

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'', the first permanent settlement on

in 1651

'' Outwater''

Possibly from John Outwater, a Revolutionary War hero. or from the town of

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in the Dutch province of South Holland. Derivation from ''Uiterwaarden'' meaning a flood plain, of which there were many, this one at the foot of

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'' Overpeck''

''Oever'' meaning ''a sloping bank'' and ''perk'' meaning ''border or boundary'', hence ''at the water's edge'', actually a riparian zone. Used in English as early as 1665. By the Lenape called ''Tantaqua'', it was the site of semi-permanent village of the

P

''
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''

In Canarsie, the channel that connects to Jamaica Bay on the southern end of Brooklyn. A ''gat'', or opening, and paarde from the word for horse. "Paerdegat" derives from the old Dutch 'paardengat', meaning "horse gate".

'' Pamrapo''

between

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and

. Spellings include ''Pimbrepow'', ''Pembrepock'', ''Pemmerepoch'', ''Pimlipo'', ''Pemrepau'', ''Pemrapaugh'', and''Pamrapough''

''
Paramus Paramus ( Waggoner, Walter H ''The New York Times'', February 16, 1966. Accessed October 16, 2018. "Paramus – pronounced puh-RAHM-us, with the accent on the second syllable – may have taken its name from 'perremus' or 'perymus,' Indian for ...
''

From ''Parampseapus'' or ''Peremessing'' meaning, perhaps, ''where there is worthwhile (or fertile) land'' or ''place of wild turkeys''. ''Seapus'' or ''sipus'' is said to mean water, so the name may mean ''turkey river''. Saddle River was also called ''Peramseapus''. Spellings include''Pyramus''.

'' Pascack''

''wet grass'' or ''place where grass is wet''

''
Passaic Passaic ( or ) is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city had a total population of 70,537, ranking as the 16th largest municipality in New Jersey and an increase of 656 from the 69,7 ...
''

The ''

and ''

are taken from ''pahsayèk'', ''pahsaayeek'' and ''pasayak'', meaning ''valley'' or ''water that flows through the valley.'' Spellings include: Pawsaick, Pissawack Contemporary: ''Pachsa'jeek''

''
Paulus Hook Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located across the river from Manhattan. The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land." This "point of land" ...
''

, called ''Arresick'' by the Lenape the site where, in 1630,

Michael Pauw Knight Michiel Reiniersz Pauw (born 29 March 1590 – died 20th, buried 24 March 1640 at Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam was a director of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) between 1621-1636. He grew up in Warmoesstraat in an influential Calvinis ...

's staked his claim for his attempted patroonship. Named after his agent who built a hut and ferry landing there, ''hoek'' or ''hoeck'' meaning a ''spit'' or ''point''. Variations include ''Paulus Hoeck, Powles Hoek, Powles Hook''

'' Pavonia''

First settlement by the Europeans on west bank of

from its

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Michael Reyniersz Pauw Knight Michiel Reiniersz Pauw (born 29 March 1590 – died 20th, buried 24 March 1640 at Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam was a director of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) between 1621-1636. He grew up in Warmoesstraat in an influential Calvinis ...

, ''Pavonia'' is a Latinized version of his surname, based on the word for ''peacock''

''
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''

From Peeck's Kil.

resident Jan Peeck made the first recorded contact with the

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population of the area, then identified as " Sachoes". The date is not certain (possibly early 1640s), but agreements and merchant transactions took place, formalized into the Ryck's Patent Deed of 1684.

'' Pelham''

From the ''ham'' or ''property'' of Thomas Pell of

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, who, on 27 June 1654, purchased from the

, and was part of the expansion of

colonies into

'' Pequannock''

From ''Paquettahhnuake'' meaning ''cleared land ready or being readied for cultivation''. '' Packanack'' is also contemporary variation of this place and possibly the Pacquanac clan of

'' Pompton''

Has been cited by some sources to mean ''a place where they catch soft fish''.

'' Ponck Hockie''

; Punkie †: Via

, from

(

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''*penkwehsa'', from ''*penkw-'', "dust, ashes" + ''*-ehs'', a

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suffix).

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from (roughly) U-puku-ipi-sing), meaning ''the reed covered lodge by the little-water place'', referring to a spring or stream feeding into the

Q

'' Quarropas''

Used as farmland by the

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, 11 June 2007 to early traders it was known as ''the White Plains'', either from the groves of white balsam which are said to have covered it,''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Eleventh Edition (1911), Volume XXVIII, p. 607. or from the heavy mist that local tradition suggests hovered over the swamplands near the

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R

'' Ramapo''

Name for the

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and

and towns, meaning ''underneath the rock'', spellings: ''Ramapough'', ''Ramopock''

'' Raritan''

The

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bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

, and towns take their name from a derivation of ''Naraticong'', meaning ''river beyond the island'' (which, considering location, could be

). Some would believe that is comes from ''Roaton'' or ''Raritanghe'', a tribe which had come from across the

and displaced the existing population of Sanhicans. Alternatively, ''Raritan'' is a Dutch pronunciation of ''wawitan'' or ''rarachons'', meaning ''forked river'' or ''stream overflows''.

'' Red Hook''

From ''Roode Hoek''. In

''hoek'' means ''point'' or ''corner'', and can refer to

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in Brooklyn, named for the red clay soil on the point of land projecting into the

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, settled by the

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s in 1636.

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From the

Kiliaen van Rensselaer

'' Robbins Reef''

From the Dutch ''rob'' or ''robyn'' meaning ''seal'' collections of which would sometimes lay on the reef at low tide

'' Rockaway''

''Place of sands'', possibly from ''l'eckwa'' meaning ''sand'' and ''auke'' meaning ''place'' Spellings include ''requarkie'' ''Rechouwakie'' ''Rechaweygh'', ''Rechquaakie'', ''Reckowacky''

'' Roodenburg''

''Red hills'' to describe the bluffs on the

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of the

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and Sullivan counties ''Rondout'' comes from the fort, or ''

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'', that was erected near its mouth The Dutch equivalent of the English word ''

'' (a fort or stronghold), is ''reduyt''. In the Dutch records of Wildwyck, however, the spelling used to designate this same fort is invariably ''Ronduyt'' during the earliest period, with the present form ''rondout'' (often capitalized) appearing as early as 22 November 1666. The Dutch word ronduyt is an adjective meaning "frankly" or "positively." The word could also be broken down into its components and translated, literally, "round-out." However, it seems unlikely that the inhabitants of Esopus had any special meaning in mind when they corrupted the Dutch word reduyt into ronduyt and rondout. Most likely, this corrupting process merely represented the simplification of a word (reduyt).

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named the area "Roodt Eylandt" meaning "red island" in reference to the red clay that lined the shore, and that the name was later anglicized when the region came under British rule.

S

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, Staten Eylandt, and Lange Eylandt, and

sailed before entering

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Originally part of territory of the

, who called the settlement at

''Schau-naugh-ta-da'' meaning ''over the pine plains''. Eventually, this word entered the lexicon of the Dutch settlers, but the meaning was reversed, and the name referred to the bend in the Mohawk River where the city lies today.

''Schuylkill''

'' Schuylkill'' () by its European discoverer, Arendt Corssen of the

translated ''hidden river'' and refers to the river's confluence with the Delaware River at

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, which was nearly hidden by dense vegetation. Perhaps, more properly, ''hideout creek'' Native: ''Ganshohawanee'', meaning "rushing and roaring waters," or "Manaiunk".

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, in Secaucus, is a geolologic
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in the midst of the Meadowlands.

'' Sewanhacky''
Sometimes ''place of shells'', referring to
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, from whence the native population harvested shells for the production of zewant or
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. Spellings include ''Sewanhacking'', ''Suanhacky'', ''Sewahaka''.

'' Sicomac''
Said to mean ''resting place for the departed'' or ''happy hunting ground'' since this area of Wyckoff, according to tradition, was the burial place of many Native Americans, possibly including
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, sagamore of the
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).

'' Spuyten Duyvil''
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and
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'' Suckiaug''
''Black Fertile River-Enhanced Earth, good for planting'', as the land along the river valley that was site '' Fort Huys de Goede Hoop'' or ''Fort House of Good Hope'', the 1623 settlement of what is now
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, a
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town, one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. ‘Zutphen’ meaning ‘south fen (marsh land)’.

T

'' Taconic''

'' Tantaqua''

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, site of Hackensack semi-permanent village

'' Tappan''
The region radiating from
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and its inhabitants as named by New Netherlanders, who spelled it as Tappaen. Site of the "
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. Possibly from ''Tuphanne'' meaning ''cold water'' Likely more related to contemporary ''petapan'' meaning ''dawn'' or ''petapaniui'' meaning ''at the break of dawn'', and relates to their kin across the river, the
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,, whose name is derived from the Algonquian ''people of the east'' or ''easterners''. (Contemporary: ''Wapaneu'' meaning''easterly'' and ''Wapanke'' meaning ''to-morrow.'')

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Origin and meaning are uncertain, though possibly may mean ''the woods'' An alternative is from the
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"Tiene Neck" meaning "neck where there are willows" (from the Dutch "tene" meaning willow).

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'' (alternatively spelled ''fly/vly/vley'') meaning ''meadow ''or ''swamp''.

'' Throg's Neck''
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who settled in the area called Vriedelandt by the Dutch

'' Turtle Bay''
From ''duetel'' meaning ''dowel'', used to describe the original shape of the inlet on the East River

V

''
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Village in the town of Kinderhook, New York. Settled by the Dutch in 1665, who named this area "Vaaltje", which means "little falls".

'' Verplanck''
Hamlet in the town of Cortlandt, from an early (1630s) settler

'' Versche Rivier''
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, likely because of it sweet, rather than
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is called ''zoet water'' "sweet water", not ''vers water''

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'' Vriedelandt''
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from John Throckmorton, an
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the Dutch allowed to settle in the area in 1642.

W

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from possible invasion by
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during the first
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.

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. Spellings include Waaleboght From the
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long referred to as "inner harbor".

'' Wallkill''
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digs in the region. For the indigenous peoples, it was not only important for its
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but for its geological resources. The river and its valley are abundant in
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and
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, from which they made
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points and
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s of the region named it first the Palse River, after New Paltz. Later, when it was clear that the river continued well beyond the original New Paltz patent, it took after the
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river in their native
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and from there to New Netherlands. They worked their way down it from the Hudson Valley in the 17th century, and were followed by the British after the colony changed hands.

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. The town of
Wappinger The Wappinger () were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut. At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutches ...
, the village of
Wappingers Falls Wappingers Falls is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Dutchess County, New York, Dutchess County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 5,522. ...
and
Wappinger Creek Wappinger Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed October 3, 2011 creek which runs from Thompson Pond to the Hudson River at New Hamburg in Dutchess County, New York, ...
Among the many phonetic spellings employed by early European settlers are Wappinck, Wapping, Wappingo, and Wawping, Wappans, Wappings, and Wappani, and Wappinghs, all apparent corruptions of the Algonquian word for "easterners". Other sources suggest it may have been a native corruption of ''wapendragers'', the Dutch word for "weapon-bearers".

'' Watchung''
The ''place of mountains'' from ''watchtsu'', which describes the three ridges west of the Meadowlands.

'' Watervliet''
Part of
patroonship In the United States, a patroon (; from Dutch ''patroon'' ) was a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland on the east coast of North America. Through the Charter of Freedoms a ...

Rensselaerswyck The Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Manor Rensselaerswyck, Van Rensselaer Manor, or just simply Rensselaerswyck ( nl, Rensselaerswijck ), was the name of a colonial estate—specifically, a Dutch patroonship and later an English manor—owned by the va ...
, meaning "water flow", as in the land between high and low tide. Similar to Watervliet in Belgium on the
North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
coast.

''
Weehawken Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located largely on the Hudson Palisades overlooking the Hudson River. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,197.
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Variously interpreted as or ''rocks that look like rows of trees'' or ''at the end of'' (the Palisades or stream that flowed from them.) and ''place of gulls''. Spelling have included: ''Awiehawken, Wiehacken, Weehauk, Weehawk, Weehock, Wiceaken'',''Wihaken'', ''Wyhaken'', and ''Wiehachan''
Peter Minuit Peter Minuit (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a Wallonian merchant from Tournai, in present-day Belgium. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New N ...
, first governor of New Netherland, sailed to the new world upon a ship called ''The Seagull'' or ''Het "Meeuwken'', which may have led to one interpretation of the
Lenape The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...
.

'' Weequahic''
''Head of the cove''.

''
Wilhelmus "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", usually known just as "Wilhelmus" ( nl, Het Wilhelmus, italic=no; ; English translation: "The William"), is the national anthem of both the Netherlands and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It dates back to at least 1572 ...
''
Short-lived fort on Zuyd Rivier in 1625, likely so called from ''Het Wilhelmus'' () (English
translation Translation is the communication of the Meaning (linguistic), meaning of a #Source and target languages, source-language text by means of an Dynamic and formal equivalence, equivalent #Source and target languages, target-language text. The ...
: ''The William''), a song which tells of
Willem van Oranje William the Silent (24 April 153310 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn (translated from nl, Willem de Zwijger), or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange ( nl, Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch Rev ...
, his life and why he is fighting for the
Dutch people The Dutch (Dutch: ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Netherlands. They share a common history and culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Arub ...
. It remained popular with the
Dutch people The Dutch (Dutch: ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Netherlands. They share a common history and culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Arub ...
since its creation. and became, in 1932, the
national anthem A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. American, Central Asian, and European n ...
of the
Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
and is the oldest national anthem in the world

'' Wiltwyk''
Settlement on west bank of
Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...
established in 1652, possibly meaning ''Wild District'', since at the time farmers were engage in an ongoing series of raids and reprisals known as the
Esopus Wars The Esopus Wars were two conflicts between the Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians (Delaware) and New Netherlander colonists during the latter half of the 17th century in Ulster County, New York. The first battle was instigated by settlers; the second ...
. (It is today known as
Kingston, New York Kingston is a Administrative divisions of New York#City, city in and the county seat of Ulster County, New York, United States. It is north of New York City and south of Albany, New York, Albany. The city's metropolitan area is grouped with t ...
.)

'' Wyckoff''
Most commonly believed origin to be from the
Lenape The Lenape (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...
word ''wickoff'' meaning ''high ground'', or that it is from ''wickok'' meaning ''water''. A less widely held theory is that the town was named for Brooklyn judge
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff Pieter Claesen Wyckoff (ca. 1620 – June 30, 1694) was a prominent figure in Dutch and later English colonial Kings County, Long Island, New York. Most persons surnamed Wyckoff in North America, including many variations in spelling, can be tra ...
(1625–1694). The surname comes from the
Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...
words ''wyk'', meaning ''district'' and ''hof'', meaning ''court''. Alternatively, the name is Friesian, its most common meaning in the Northern Germanic languages is a settlement on a bay. The Wykhof estate from where Pieter Claessen emigrated is located near the
Ems River The Ems (german: Ems; nl, Eems) is a river in northwestern Germany. It runs through the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, and discharges into the Dollart Bay which is part of the Wadden Sea. Its total length is . The state b ...
Bay, about 5 miles south of
Norden, Lower Saxony Norden (East Frisian Low Saxon: ''Nörden'') is a town in the district of Aurich, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea shore, in East Frisia. Town and land use Norden consists of the town itself and ten official subd ...
, Germany.

Y

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Yonkers Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...
''
From ''
Jonkheer (female equivalent: ; french: Écuyer; en, Squire) is an honorific in the Low Countries denoting the lowest rank within the nobility. In the Netherlands, this in general concerns a prefix used by the untitled nobility. In Belgium, this is the ...
'' or ''Jonker'' meaning young gentleman (and in effect, ''Esquire''), the title borne by proprietor of homestead which included the land where the city is situated,
Adriaen van der Donck Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (16181655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific ''Jonkheer'' the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as sometimes claimed, the first lawyer in the Dutch colo ...
.

Z

'' Zuyd River''
''South River'', now the ''
Delaware River The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock (village), New York, Hancock, New York, the river flows for along the borders of N ...
''

''
Zwaanendael or was a short-lived Dutch colonial settlement in Delaware. It was built in 1631. The name is archaic Dutch for "swan valley." The site of the settlement later became the town of Lewes, Delaware. History Two directors of the Amsterdam ch ...
''
Sometimes ''Swaanendael'' meaning ''swan valley''. Site of first
Dutch colonial Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Rev ...
settlement in
Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
, in 1631, was destroyed, and later became
Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. It is the police and judicial centre for all of Sussex and is home to Sussex Police, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, Lewes Crown Court and HMP Lewes. The civil parish is the centre of ...
.

See also
*
Vlaie In the Hudson Valley of eastern United States, a vlaie, vly or fly is a swamp or marsh. It also applies to creeks and areas in the vicinities. The term appears in place names in areas of Dutch influence, formerly New Netherland. Etymology The ...
*
New Netherland settlements New Netherland (''Nieuw-Nederland'' in Dutch) was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory was the land from the Delmarva Peninsula t ...
*
Forts of New Netherland New Netherland, or ''Nieuw-Nederland'' in Dutch, was the 17th century colony of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory included southern Cape Cod to parts of the Delmarva P ...
*
List of place names in New England of aboriginal origin The region of New England in the United States has numerous place names derived from the indigenous peoples of the area. New England is in the Northeastern United States, and comprises six states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, ...
*
Metoac Metoac is an erroneous term used by some to group together the Munsee-speaking Lenape (west), Quiripi-speaking Unquachog (center) and Pequot-speaking Montaukett (east) American Indians on what is now Long Island in New York state. The term wa ...

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New Netherland New Netherland ( nl, Nieuw Nederland; la, Novum Belgium or ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the East Coast of the United States, east coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territor ...
New Netherland Dutch-American culture in New Jersey Dutch-American culture in New York (state) Dutch language in the United States

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'' Acquackanonk''

''Achter Col Achter Kol (or Achter Col) was the name given to the region around the Newark Bay and Hackensack River in northeastern New Jersey by the first European settlers to it and was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, originally adminis ...''

''Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...''

'' Arresick''

''Arthur Kill The Arthur Kill (sometimes referred to as the Staten Island Sound) is a tidal strait between Staten Island (also known as Richmond County), New York and Union and Middlesex counties, New Jersey. It is a major navigational channel of the Port of ...''

B

'' Barnegat''

''Bedloe's Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in ...''

''Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...''

Bergen Square

Bergen Street

'' Beversreede''

''Beverwyck Beverwijck ( ; ), often written using the pre-reform orthography Beverwyck, was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was renamed and developed as Albany, New York, after the English took contro ...''

''Blauvelt Blauvelt is a hamlet and census-designated place, formerly known as Greenbush and then Blauveltville, in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Tappan, east of Nauraushaun and Pearl River, south ...''

''Block Island Block Island is an island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island located in Block Island Sound approximately south of the mainland and east of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It is part of Washingt ...''

'' Bloomingdale''

''Bowery The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.Jackson, Kenneth L. "B ...''

''Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...''

'' Breuckelen''

''The Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...''

''Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...''

''Bushwick Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Par ...''

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''Canarsie Canarsie ( ) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and East 108th Street; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph Aven ...''

''Casimir Casimir is classically an English, French and Latin form of the Polish name Kazimierz. Feminine forms are Casimira and Kazimiera. It means "proclaimer (from ''kazać'' to preach) of peace (''mir'')." List of variations *Belarusian: Казі� ...''

''Cape Henlopen Cape Henlopen is the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States. It lies in the state of Delaware, near the town of Lewes, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Off the coast on the bay side are two ...''

''Cape May Cape May consists of a peninsula and barrier island system in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is roughly coterminous with Cape May County, New Jersey, Cape May County and runs southwards from the New Jersey mainland, separating Delaware Bay fro ...''

'' Catskill''

''Caven Point Caven or Cavens may refer to: People * Albert Cavens (1906–1985), Belgian-American silent film actor *Ingrid Caven (born 1938), German film actress *Jamie Caven (born 1976), English darts player * John Caven (Canadian politician) (c.1838–?), Ca ...''

'' Claverack''

'' Cohoes''

'' Colonie''

''Collect Pond Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond,, p. 250. was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New York City water supply system ...''

''Communipaw Communipaw is a neighborhood in Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It is located west of Liberty State Park Liberty State Park (LSP) is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City ...''

''Colen Donck Colen Donck (in English "Donck's Colony") was a 24,000 acre (97 km2) patroonship in New Netherland along the southern Hudson River in today's Bronx and Yonkers established by Dutch-American lawyer and land developer Adriaen van der Donck. His ...''

''Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach to its east, L ...''

''Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...''

''Constable Hook Constable Hook is a cape located on the north side of the outlet of Kill van Kull into Upper New York Bay in Bayonne, New Jersey. The cape has long been an important site of marine transfer operations in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Just o ...''

'' Cortelyou''

'' Cortlandt''

'' Cromakill''

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'' Danskammer''

''Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...''

'' Dunderberg''

'' Dunkerhook''

''Dwars Kill The Dwars Kill (also known as Dwarskill or Dwarskill Creek) is a tributary of the Hackensack River (Oradell Reservoir) in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States. The name is taken from the Dutch language and can be translated as "Cross Cr ...''

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'' Esopus''

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'' Flatlands''

'' Flatbush''

''Flushing Flushing may refer to: Places * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom * Flushing, Queens, New York City ** Flushing Bay, a bay off the north shore of Queens ** Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens ** Flushing ...''

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''Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...''

'' Gramercy''

'' Goede Hoop''

''Gowanus Gowanus ( ) is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 6. Gowanus is bounded by Wyckoff Street on ...''

''Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the Bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Ro ...''

''Guilderland Guilderland is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. In the 2020 census, the town had a population of 36,848. The town is named for the Gelderland province in the Netherlands. The town of Guilderland is on the central-northwest borde ...''

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'' Hackensack''

''Halfmoon The halfmoon (''Medialuna californiensis''), also known as the blue perch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the subfamily Scorpidinae, part of the family Kyphosidae. It is native to the coasts of the eastern Pacific Ocean ...''

''Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...''

''Harsimus Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christoph ...''

''Haverstraw Haverstraw is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the Town of Clarkstown and the Town of Ramapo; east of Orange County; south of the Town of Stony Point; and west of the Hudson River. The town runs from the we ...''

''Hell Gate Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City. It separates Astoria, Queens, from Randall's and Wards Islands. Etymology The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase ''Hellegat'' (it first appeared on ...''

'' Hemsteede''

''Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...''

'' Housatonic''

''Hudson Hudson may refer to: People * Hudson (given name) * Hudson (surname) * Henry Hudson, English explorer * Hudson (footballer, born 1986), Hudson Fernando Tobias de Carvalho, Brazilian football right-back * Hudson (footballer, born 1988), Hudso ...''

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''Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...''

K

''Kill van Kull __NOTOC__ The Kill Van Kull is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey in the United States. It is approximately long and wide and connects Newark Bay with Upper New York Bay. The Robbins Reef Light marks the ...''

'' Kinderhook''

''Kinderkamack County Route 503 (CR 503) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends 17.95 miles (28.89 kilometers) from Paterson Plank Road ( Route 120) in East Rutherford to the New York state line at the Montvale NJ/ Pearl River ...''

''Kykuit Kykuit ( ), known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefelle ...''

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Achter Col Achter Kol (or Achter Col) was the name given to the region around the Newark Bay and Hackensack River in northeastern New Jersey by the first European settlers to it and was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, originally adminis ...
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Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
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Arthur Kill The Arthur Kill (sometimes referred to as the Staten Island Sound) is a tidal strait between Staten Island (also known as Richmond County), New York and Union and Middlesex counties, New Jersey. It is a major navigational channel of the Port of ...
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Bedloe's Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in ...
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Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
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Beverwyck Beverwijck ( ; ), often written using the pre-reform orthography Beverwyck, was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was renamed and developed as Albany, New York, after the English took contro ...
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Blauvelt Blauvelt is a hamlet and census-designated place, formerly known as Greenbush and then Blauveltville, in the town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Tappan, east of Nauraushaun and Pearl River, south ...
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Block Island Block Island is an island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island located in Block Island Sound approximately south of the mainland and east of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, named after Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It is part of Washingt ...
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Bowery The Bowery () is a street and neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street in the north.Jackson, Kenneth L. "B ...
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Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Broadway (Manhattan), the street Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
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The Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
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Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
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Bushwick Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; East New York and the cemeteries of Highland Par ...
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Canarsie Canarsie ( ) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and East 108th Street; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph Aven ...
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Casimir Casimir is classically an English, French and Latin form of the Polish name Kazimierz. Feminine forms are Casimira and Kazimiera. It means "proclaimer (from ''kazać'' to preach) of peace (''mir'')." List of variations *Belarusian: Казі� ...
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Cape Henlopen Cape Henlopen is the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States. It lies in the state of Delaware, near the town of Lewes, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Off the coast on the bay side are two ...
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Cape May Cape May consists of a peninsula and barrier island system in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is roughly coterminous with Cape May County, New Jersey, Cape May County and runs southwards from the New Jersey mainland, separating Delaware Bay fro ...
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Caven Point Caven or Cavens may refer to: People * Albert Cavens (1906–1985), Belgian-American silent film actor Ingrid Caven (born 1938), German film actress Jamie Caven (born 1976), English darts player * John Caven (Canadian politician) (c.1838–?), Ca ...
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Collect Pond Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond,, p. 250. was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City. For the first two centuries of European settlement in Manhattan, it was the main New York City water supply system ...
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Communipaw Communipaw is a neighborhood in Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It is located west of Liberty State Park Liberty State Park (LSP) is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City ...
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Colen Donck Colen Donck (in English "Donck's Colony") was a 24,000 acre (97 km2) patroonship in New Netherland along the southern Hudson River in today's Bronx and Yonkers established by Dutch-American lawyer and land developer Adriaen van der Donck. His ...
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Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach to its east, L ...
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Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
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Constable Hook Constable Hook is a cape located on the north side of the outlet of Kill van Kull into Upper New York Bay in Bayonne, New Jersey. The cape has long been an important site of marine transfer operations in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Just o ...
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Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
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Dwars Kill The Dwars Kill (also known as Dwarskill or Dwarskill Creek) is a tributary of the Hackensack River (Oradell Reservoir) in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States. The name is taken from the Dutch language and can be translated as "Cross Cr ...
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Flushing Flushing may refer to: Places * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom * Flushing, Queens, New York City Flushing Bay, a bay off the north shore of Queens Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens ** Flushing ...
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Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
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Gowanus Gowanus ( ) is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 6. Gowanus is bounded by Wyckoff Street on ...
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Gravesend Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the Bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames and opposite Tilbury in Essex. Located in the diocese of Ro ...
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Guilderland Guilderland is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. In the 2020 census, the town had a population of 36,848. The town is named for the Gelderland province in the Netherlands. The town of Guilderland is on the central-northwest borde ...
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Halfmoon The halfmoon (''Medialuna californiensis''), also known as the blue perch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the subfamily Scorpidinae, part of the family Kyphosidae. It is native to the coasts of the eastern Pacific Ocean ...
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Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...
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Harsimus Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christoph ...
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Haverstraw Haverstraw is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the Town of Clarkstown and the Town of Ramapo; east of Orange County; south of the Town of Stony Point; and west of the Hudson River. The town runs from the we ...
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Hell Gate Hell Gate is a narrow tidal strait in the East River in New York City. It separates Astoria, Queens, from Randall's and Wards Islands. Etymology The name "Hell Gate" is a corruption of the Dutch phrase ''Hellegat'' (it first appeared on ...
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Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...
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Hudson Hudson may refer to: People * Hudson (given name) * Hudson (surname) * Henry Hudson, English explorer * Hudson (footballer, born 1986), Hudson Fernando Tobias de Carvalho, Brazilian football right-back * Hudson (footballer, born 1988), Hudso ...
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Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
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Kill van Kull NOTOC The Kill Van Kull is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey in the United States. It is approximately long and wide and connects Newark Bay with Upper New York Bay. The Robbins Reef Light marks the ...
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Kinderkamack County Route 503 (CR 503) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends 17.95 miles (28.89 kilometers) from Paterson Plank Road ( Route 120) in East Rutherford to the New York state line at the Montvale NJ/ Pearl River ...
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Kykuit Kykuit ( ), known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefelle ...
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Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
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Maspeth Maspeth is a residential and commercial community in the borough of Queens in New York City. It was founded in the early 17th century by Dutch and English settlers. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside to the north; Sunnyside t ...
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Massapequa Massapequa (, ) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is considered the anchor community of the Greater Massapequa area. The p ...
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Minisink The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex County, New Jersey, Sussex and Warren County, New Jersey, Warren counties), northeastern P ...
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Minetta Lane Greenwich Village ( , , ) is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village a ...
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Nassau Nassau may refer to: Places Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas, capital city of the Bahamas, on the island of New Providence Canada Nassau District, renamed Home District, regional division in Upper Canada from 1788 to 1792 *Nassau Street (Winnipeg), ...
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New Utrecht New Utrecht ( nl, Nieuw Utrecht) was a town in western Long Island, New York (state), New York encompassing all or part of the present-day Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Brooklyn, Borough Park, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton n ...
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Orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum ...
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Paerdegat Canarsie ( ) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and East 108th Street; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph Aven ...
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Paramus Paramus ( Waggoner, Walter H ''The New York Times'', February 16, 1966. Accessed October 16, 2018. "Paramus – pronounced puh-RAHM-us, with the accent on the second syllable – may have taken its name from 'perremus' or 'perymus,' Indian for ...
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Passaic Passaic ( or ) is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city had a total population of 70,537, ranking as the 16th largest municipality in New Jersey and an increase of 656 from the 69,7 ...
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Paulus Hook Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located across the river from Manhattan. The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land." This "point of land" ...
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Peekskill Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, from New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across fr ...
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Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie ( ), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it) is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsi ...
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Rensselaerswyck The Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Manor Rensselaerswyck, Van Rensselaer Manor, or just simply Rensselaerswyck ( nl, Rensselaerswijck ), was the name of a colonial estate—specifically, a Dutch patroonship and later an English manor—owned by the va ...
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Rondout Rondout may refer to some places and buildings in the United States: In Illinois: * Rondout, Illinois In New York: Rondout, New York, a village located on the north side of Rondout Creek near its mouth on the Hudson River in Ulster County Rondou ...
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Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
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Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...
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Sandy Hook Sandy Hook is a barrier spit in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The barrier spit, approximately in length and varying from wide, is located at the north end of the Jersey Shore. It encloses the southern en ...
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Schenectady Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ...
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Sing-Sing Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is about north o ...
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Staten Island Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull an ...
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Sutphin Sutphin is a surname almost exclusively found in the United States. It is an Americanized form of the Dutch surname Zutphen or van Zutphen, from the place-name Zutphen (used for residents), meaning "south fen". Notable persons with the name include ...
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