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There is certainty it was a place, at the very tip of Manhattan Island, so referred to by the Dutch, [1] [2] who evidently inherited the Native American name for the spot they chose to place their settlement (rather than named it after a people already living there, as the island was not permanently inhabited at the time of their 1609 arrival ...
The name Manhattan originated from the Lenapes language, Munsee, manaháhtaan (where manah-means "gather", -aht-means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows".
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York.
[13] [4] [14] [15] At the time, the area was far from the core of New York City, which was centered south of 23rd Street in what is now Lower Manhattan. On September 27, 1825, a 25-year-old African American man named Andrew Williams, employed as a bootblack and later as a cartman, purchased three lots from the Whiteheads for $125.
The City So Nice They Named It Twice – a reference to "New York, New York" as both the city and state, spoken by Jon Hendricks in 1959 on a jazz cover of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers' song "Manhattan" on George Russell's album New York, N.Y., [16] and popularized by New York-based late night talk show host David Letterman, who also used ...
Manhattan is derived from Manna-hata, a Dutch version of a Lenape place name, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). [4] A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the North River , and now called the Hudson ...
"If the Good Lord made you a boy, you’re a boy. And if He made you a girl, you’re a girl," Ivey said in a signing statement from the Capitol. "In Alabama, we believe there are two genders ...
December 2: 25-year-old aspiring dancer Laura Garza disappears after leaving a Manhattan nightclub with a sex offender named Michael Mele. Her remains are found in Olyphant, Pennsylvania in April 2010. On the first day of his trial in January 2012, Mele admits to killing Garza and pleads guilty to first-degree manslaughter. [198]