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By CHRISTINA WILKINSON Forgotten NY correspondent DURING the 17th and 18th centuries, Dutch farmers settled Newtown and Bushwick on the western end of Long Island. One of these farmers, Paulus Van Der Ende, built a house in Newtown in 1710. The restored farmhouse is located at the corner of what are today Flushing and Onderdonk [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Queens Ridgewood
YET another of New York City’s longstanding establishments is due for change in the imminent future; in July 2005 the Fulton Fish Market, in existence along either side of South Street in one form or another since 1835, was poised to relocate into a bigger, state of the art facility in Hunts Point, Bronx, joining the massive [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Fulton Street Manhattan
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: City Hall Low-V cars Manhattan
FIRST of all, we’ll get Houston Street’s derivation, and its unusual pronunciation, out of the way: The street from the Hudson River to Bedford had acquired its name by 1803, when Texas general, senator and governor Sam Houston (1793-1863) was ten years old. Couldn’t be him. Other accounts have the name derived from the Dutch termhuystujn (“garden house”) from [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: East Village Greenwich Village Manhattan Noho
THE BRONX borders Nassau County.Manhattan borders Queens. The Bronx borders Queens, too. Staten Island borders Middlesex County, New Jersey. Suffolk County borders Rhode Island! But these worlds never truly come together, since all those borders are on water. Not so with Brooklyn and Queens: these twins are conjoined, land-locked through Ridgewood, the Cemetery Belt, in an [...]
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