Book

Names of New York

Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

2021

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Purple and yellow illustration of Lower Manhattan skyline, with letters of "Manahata" as buildings.

How New York Was Named

For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via The New Yorker on April 13, 2021

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