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Bowery most
prominently refers to a
street and
neighborhood in
Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is an
anglicization of Bouwerie, the
archaic form of...
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factorij or
trading post in the 1610s and did not
become a "homestead" (
bouwerij)
until the 1630s.
Settlements in New
Netherlands sometimes moved around...
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Manhattan island, they
named the path
Bouwerie road – "bouwerie" (or
later "
bouwerij")
being an old
Dutch word for "farm" –
because it
connected farmlands and...
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Brooklyn (after Breukelen),
Flushing (after Vlissingen), the
Bowery (after
Bouwerij,
construction site),
Harlem (after Haarlem),
Coney Island (from Conyne...
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Island (from "Konijnen Eiland" –
Dutch for "Rabbit Island"),
Bowery from
bouwerij (modern
Dutch boerderij = "farm"),
Brooklyn (from Breukelen),
Harlem from...
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Brooklyn (Breukelen),
Harlem (Haarlem), Wall
Street (Waal Straat),
Bowery (
bouwerij), and
Coney Island (conyne). The New York
Dutch Room at the Metropolitan...
- the
North Rivier with
numbered key
showing settlements: 27. Farm (Bou=
Bouwerij= (Modern Dutch)
boerderij = farm) of Van Vorst; 28. "v" (sic): 29. Farm...
- were a
number of
small plantations and
large farms that were then
called bouwerij (anglicized to "boweries";
modern Dutch: boerderij).
Around these farms...
- on
Chambers Street near the
World Trade Center. His farm,
called the "
Bouwerij" – the seventeenth-century
Dutch word for "farm" – was the
source for the...
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north of it were a
number of
small plantations and
large farms called "
bouwerij" ("bowery",
equivalent to "boerderij" in present-day Dutch).
Around these...
