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Gouverneur Street – Abraham Gouverneur, a 17th-century Dutch immigrant turned big-time New York political activist. Great Jones Street – Samuel Jones, "The Father of The New York Bar" Henry Street – Henry Rutgers, American Revolutionary War hero; Houston Street (pronounced / ˈ h aʊ s t ən / HOW-stən) – William Houstoun, Founding Father.
This partial list of city nicknames in New York compiles the aliases, sobriquets, and slogans that cities in the U.S. state of New York are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders, or the cities' tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
It resumes at East 41st Street and Troy Avenue and continues as a one-way street going from west to east to Ralph Avenue, where it becomes a two-way street again until its eastern terminus at Bergen Avenue in Bergen Beach. Across the Paerdegat Basin, it resumes at East 80th Street in Canarsie and runs to its terminus at East 108th Street.
Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
More: World Atlas names 9 of New York's most picturesque small towns. See the list. Lake Placid NY. Don’t confuse this gorgeous village with the 1999 fictional creature movie that borrowed its name.
General Erastus Root, New York state senator [5] Rotterdam: Schenectady Rotterdam, Netherlands: Dutch St. Johnsville (town and village) Montgomery Either Alexander St. John, surveyor, or St. John's Church, an early name for the area [5] [15] ca. 1818 St. John's Church Saratoga (town) Saratoga Springs: Saratoga
Here are the 11 most darling small towns in New York, as determined by the World Atlas. Seneca Falls NY First Presbyterian Church where the first equal rights amendment was first proposed in 1923.