Names of New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Names of New York write by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Names of New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now.
Naming New York
Naming New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming New York write by Sanna Feirstein. This book was released on 2001-04. Naming New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Historical Society docent Feirstein has written a historically rich guide to New York City that will entertain both New Yorkers and tourists as they walk through the Big Apple. The histories of the city's major neighborhoods, as well as the history of their names divide the book into sections, the remainder of which contains the names of streets, parks, plazas, corners, alleys, and avenues in that neighborhood and the history of each name. The guide is illustrated with bandw photos of New York's illustrious folk. c. Book News Inc.
Brooklyn by Name
Brooklyn by Name - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brooklyn by Name write by Leonard Benardo. This book was released on 2006-07. Brooklyn by Name available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. These pages take readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Over 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place names are organized alphabetically by region. Photos & maps.
Manhattan to Minisink
Manhattan to Minisink - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manhattan to Minisink write by Robert S. Grumet. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Manhattan to Minisink available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names. Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and state. Each entry includes the name’s language of origin, if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the name’s current status. The book’s second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be of Indian origin, are “imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors.” Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among home-grown colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries. Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the region’s naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or visit.
The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley
The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley write by Lou D. MacWethy. This book was released on 2010-10. The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When originally published in 1933, this classic work listed for the first time the names of the early Palatines of New York State, the original settlers of the Mohawk Valley, known as the "Gateway to the West." The estimated 20,000 names are classified, combined, and otherwise arranged to enable the researcher to identify Palatine immigrants in relation to specific categories of records. Among the important lists of names are the following: (1) The Kocherthal records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1708-1719; (2) Palatine heads of families, from Gov. Hunter's Ration Lists, 1710-1714; (3) Lists of Palatines in 1709 (the four London lists of emigrants from Germany, most of whom emigrated to America); (4) Palatines remaining and newly arrived in New York, from the colonial census of 1710; (5) Names of Palatine children apprenticed by Gov. Hunter, 1710-1714; and (6) Various lists of Palatines in the colonial militia of New York.
