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  • in reply to: Whelan’s Garage #3217
    Thomas Casey
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      So not to stand on my head

      in reply to: Whelan’s Garage #3209
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        Whelan’s Garage was active selling Socony gas ( Standard Oil became Mobil Oil ) in 1918 according to an add in the NY Times, located at 3129 – 3131 Bailey Ave Bronx NY. Still a garage.  The names and date of birth of Mr. Whelan & his brother would help.Whelan’s Garage

        in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3160
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          In 1642, John Throckmorton was granted a patent from New Netherland in area named Vriedelandt or Vreeland / Oostdorp.  So it would appear that the Dutch considered their holdings from the deed to include the Bronx.  The Dutch claimed to own property east to the Connecticut River and the English claimed west to the Hudson. So they agreed to a boundary ( Black Dog Brook ) northeast of Westchester Creek,  separating Westchester from Eastchester.  Vreeland Ave  located close to Westchester Square in the Bronx.

          in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3159
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            We just went back & forth with our 2022 interpretations of the 1639 land deed.  We did what the historians of 1906 agreed.  They made a map and labeled it.  However, Nick Dembowski threw a new wrinkle into the mix.  The Long Island Sound has been called the Great Kill !  To me…now that is what I would call a great Kill, greater than Staten Island or the Bronx Kill.  It would therefore make the the entirety of the Bronx “Keskeskich”   East to West from the great Kill.   By 1659 there was already a village established in the area called OOSTDORP by the Dutch that we know today as Westchester Square in the Bronx. On the Kill ( Westchester Creek ) referenced often inMap of Keskeskich 1659 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Documentary_History_of_the_State_of/KtuBzUJ6AzUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=oostdorp&pg=PA557&printsec=frontcover

            in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3142
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              The Sachems point to the Bronx.  I think the Harlem was the great Kil.  (It’s a tidal strait ). Therefore, Kingsbridge is looking like the spot. Just wondering who received the property from the DUTCH WEST COMPANY

              in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3137
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                Peter,  I just do not see the Bronx Kil as “GREAT”

                Opposite the flat of Manhattan could be opposite Dyckman Flats ( Kingsbidge or University Heights)  or Gracie Mansion ( Randalls Island ) or East Harlem ( Bronx or Randalls Island )  The only high hills could be in Kingsbridge and University heights…unless St Mary’s park is considered a high hill…( it was for me sledding ).. Then back to Bronck’s

                 

                 

                 

                 

                in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3132
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                  Why is this thought to be Westchester County ?  When I read Great Kil, I think of Staten Island or Jersey City

                  in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3097
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                    Page 111 of the 1848 book by the New York Historical Society describes the Spuyten Duyvil Creek in Kingsbridge.  In the next line, the hill in Bay, into the Kills  ( Staten Island) was called Nipnichsen by the Indians.  This is probably where the name Nipnichsen and Kingsbridge was connected by Bolton.  

                    in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3096
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                      I could only find Robert Bolton, ‎Cornelius Winter Bolton · 1881 use of Nipnichsen in The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester – 1881 when describing Berrian’s Neck & A History of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time
                      by Robert Bolton – 1848

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                      in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3095
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                        I could only find Robert Bolton, ‎Cornelius Winter Bolton · 1881 use of Nipnichsen in The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester – 1881 when describing Berrian’s Neck.

                        in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3094
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                          The author Davis Gold concludes that the meaning of Nipnichsen does not fit the description of our area, and so it must have been selected by someone other than Native Americans.  He was comparing the appropriate usage of  Shorakkappoch, Paprinimen, Gowahasuasing vs Nipnichsen

                          in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3093
                          Thomas Casey
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                            Nick, the clip comes from Davis Gold’s book

                            in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3091
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                              Lets not forget NipnichsenNipnichsen

                              in reply to: Local Munsee Placenames #3090
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                                PaparineminAccording to History In Asphalt by John McNamara, Paparinemin meant “Place of False Starts”, alluding to the double tide caused by the Hudson and the Harlem Rivers.
                                Also see- Studies in Etymology and Etiology, by David Gold ( attached)

                                in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3025
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                                  Well….There was more to MLK’s stay at the Riverdale Motor InnMLK Riverdale

                                  in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3023
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                                    According to an FBI log of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s August 1963 meetings with publisher Al Duckett (as told by Taylor Branch in Parting the Waters), Dr. King “managed to escape almost every day to the nearby Riverdale Motor Inn, where Clarence Jones had ensconced a writer named Al Duckett to help with crash production of the Birmingham book (Why We Can’t Wait).”Riverdale Motor Inn Key

                                    in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3022
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                                      An other postcardBuilding

                                      in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3021
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                                        An other postcardBuilding

                                        in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3020
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                                          An other postcardBuilding

                                          in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3019
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                                            An other postcardBuilding

                                            in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3018
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                                              I actually never owned the Riverdale Motor Inn Pool Postcard, had many others.Riverdale Motor Inn PC Pool

                                              in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3017
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                                                I actually never owned the Riverdale Motor Inn Pool Postcard, had many others.Riverdale Motor Inn PC Pool

                                                in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3014
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                                                  Now Riverdale Manor – Broadway & 254th

                                                  in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3012
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                                                    The Windsor South has a large pool or maybe the old Riverdale Y on Independence Ave had one ??

                                                    in reply to: December 2022 Image Contest #3008
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                                                      Looks like a 1960 ad from a real estate brochure.  Maybe Sky View

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