How Did The Boroughs Of New York Get Their Names?

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
History of New York City: www.history.com/topics/new-yor...
A Bronck in the Bronx: www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/ny...
The Dutch Tulip Crash: www.investopedia.com/features/...
Brooklyn on Etymonline: www.etymonline.com/index.php?t...
Coney Island: www.britannica.com/place/Cone...
Staten-Island Etymology: en.oxforddictionaries.com/def...
Staten-Generaal: www.staten-generaal.nl/begrip/...
How Did Queens Get It’s Name? www.tripsavvy.com/how-did-que...
The Origin and Meaning of the Name “Manhattan”: repository.si.edu/bitstream/h...
The Indian’s of Lenapehoking: delawaretribe.org/product/the-...
Why Is new York named The Big Apple?: www.history.com/news/ask-histo...
PRONUNCIATION SOURCES
Angoulême: forvo.com/word/angoul%C3%AAme/
Giovanni da Verrazzano: forvo.com/word/giovanni_da_ve...
Jonas: forvo.com/word/jonas/
Breuckelen: forvo.com/word/breuckelen/
Konijn: forvo.com/word/konijn/
Staten-Generaal: forvo.com/word/staten-generaa...
Braganza: forvo.com/word/braganza/#pt
Lenape: forvo.com/word/lenape/
PHOTO SOURCES
Amsterdam: Massimo Catarinella
Giovanni da Verrazano: Francesco Allegrini
King Francis I: Jean Clouet
Angoulême: Jack Ma
Manhatten: Dmitry Avdeev
The Bronx River: Jim Henderson
Breukelen: Michielverbeek
Harlem: Momos
Haarlem: Fryslan0109
Coney Island: MusikAnimal
Den Haag Binnenhof: Markus Bernet
Catherine of Braganza: Peter Lely
King Charles II: John Michael Wright
Treaty of Penn: Benjamin West
New York Harbour: George Louis
Horse Racing: Slooby
Bourbon Street: Chris Litherland
"Opportunity Walks"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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@sadvenom7826 6 лет назад

I live in new york i knew the dutch had history here but i didnt know that it was to that extent . You learn something new everyday

@mimimotor 6 лет назад

The way to live with many cultures a the same place was a Dutch invention.

@stephenvelden295 6 лет назад

I don't!

@Saartje05 6 лет назад

It's even a LOT more. This is only a part of the Dutch names in New York. Flushing/Vlissingen. Stuyvesant, Broadway, Wallstreet, etc. All Dutch.

@Joop.23-2-63 5 лет назад

Maybe interesting to know, state Michigan also has many dutch (eastern part) influences. Townships called Holland, Zeeland (after the province), Overisel (dialect for province Overijssel). Town called Borculo, also a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands. Noordeloos, named after the birthplace from the 1st reverend at that time. Soccer, baseball stadiums and roads named after dutch people. BTW, ever saw the tv-series 'The incredible Dr Pol'? also dutch heritage.......

@quanbrooklynkid7776 5 лет назад

@@jasenrock shut up

@marcg.3333 6 лет назад

"Yankee" is also a Dutch word referring to two common first names used by the Dutch. Jan and Kees.

@SoooooWhatt 4 года назад

That's another legacy of the Dutch language upon the United States, whether or not it was related to New Amsterdam! I have heard a Dutch name along those lines being used as part of the inspiration for _Yankee_ _Doodle,_ the British song that inspired a nickname (Yankees) for Americans that is used by Americans _and_ Britons.

@richardbaker2701 4 года назад

Australians and New Zealanders call Americans “yanks” and seppos”

@ronaldarias8870 4 года назад

nice one i had no idea

@Ozymandias1 4 года назад

@@richardbaker2701 Seppos is rhyming slang for "septic tanks". The American military brought those to Australia when they were stationed there during WWII.

@Twittler1 4 года назад

Erm, plausible but not quite there. ‘The word ‘Yankees’ comes from the inability of the natives to pronounce the word ‘English’ - the word contains sounds that don’t exist in most native American languages of the North-East. So, ‘English’ turned into ‘Ian - kiss’, and then the French turned it into ‘Yanquis; ‘i’ does not represent the same sound in French as it does in English - it’s used for the ‘ee’ sound. French does not use the letter ‘e’ for that sound. English turned the word into Yankees. The natives used it for the English, the English used it for the colonists. The Dutch connection is correlation, not cause. PS: the natives called the French ‘Franshay’.

@EpreTroll 6 лет назад

Damn English always taking our shit

@historywithhilbert146 6 лет назад

EpreTroll Nieuw Amsterdam > New York

@leonverbakel3889 6 лет назад

History With Hilbert Hoe ben jij hier terecht gekomen? Moet jij geen videos maken :D

@timothymclean 6 лет назад

Oh, _you're_ one to complain. Look at the Native Americans! Do you hear _them_ complaining? No, because the English killed most of them! Aside from the ones who the Spanish and Americans and such killed.

@EpreTroll 6 лет назад

no you have to understand we had all right to take that land. we are a passive folk. the brits took our south africa and we also found australia first man. we were there first.

@ignemuton5500 6 лет назад

+EpreTroll karma's a bitch isn't it?

@darreljones8645 6 лет назад

Each of New York City's five boroughs is also one of the 62 counties in the state of New York. Bronx County and Queens County share their names with their respective boroughs. Manhattan is New York County. Brooklyn is Kings County. Staten Island is Richmond County, which was named after the Duke of Richmond, a pro-American British PM during the Revolutionary War.

@avanyc9705 5 лет назад

What about Brooklyn?

@robertdesio766 5 лет назад

Thanks Darrell. As someone who grew up on Staten Island, I didn't know that.

@robertdesio766 5 лет назад

That is the part about the Duke.

@Musik216 4 года назад

You left out Brooklyn which is Kings County..... I'd leave Brooklyn out too, but they are a part of us...

@metropcs985 4 года назад

Bk kings county

@redmiller5640 5 лет назад

Names on the Jersey side are from a mix of cultures like New York. Hoboken, Bergen, Paulus Hook = Dutch Weehawken, Secaucus, Hackensack, Communipaw = Lenape Bayonne = French Guttenberg = German Jersey City = English

@Stephen-Fox 6 лет назад

Ah, Tulipmania. Often considered the first speculator bubble. Fascinating piece of economic history.

@martijnf4869 6 лет назад

*Proud to be Dutch* And the VOC (United East India Company in English) is universally regarded as the first real multinational in the world and the first company ever to hit the stock exchange.

@552mustang 5 лет назад

Gizensha Fox Bitcoin is the new Tulip :-D

@krunchykarim 5 лет назад

Nostalgia, ahhh. Oh wait no I mean, errr, crap they know too much of my immortality

@Pavidusrex 4 года назад

First capitalistic and financial crisis concerning tubers of tulips in Holland and in general in the other ex-ten Provinces of the Republic of Netherlands between 1629-1630

@DenUitvreter 4 года назад

1.37 "Trust me, I'm not making this up" No, someone else did but it's still nonsense. Yes, it's an interesting story about the first bubble, no, it wasn't of any economic relevance.

@DotRD12 6 лет назад

As a Dutch person, that pronounciation hurt. great video

@Jothamvvw 6 лет назад

Broekelen is best pijnlijk ja.

@doruskeijzer 6 лет назад

I wonder if he even researches pronunciation

@NameExplain 6 лет назад

Dorus Keijzer All the tricky words have pronunciation sources in the information box below the video. Blame my crappy mouth but don’t presume I don’t research these videos.

@paulson_huynh 6 лет назад

I mean learning a foreign language is hard

@richamo13 6 лет назад

+Name Explain, your sources are good, so I'll blame your crappy mouth, but then again, the pronunciation of Dutch is quite difficult.

@jovanweismiller7114 6 лет назад

Manhattan, Kansas calls itself the 'Little Apple'!

@moiraswife 6 лет назад

Aww, how cute!

@KosTis 6 лет назад

It's little apple!!!

@dianaeilenberg5972 5 лет назад

Jovan Weismiller but why

@Cmack6025 5 лет назад

Minneapolis is also known as Mini Apple 🍎

@johnfast1015 5 лет назад

Minneapolis too, the mini apple

@NameExplain 6 лет назад

Hey all! Hope you all enjoy the video, I took last week off and next week I'll be off to but after that it'll be normally weekly content again, enjoy! And RU-vid decided to mess up the video at around 2:33, sorry about that!

@RookVector 6 лет назад

Hey, I have always wondered why the American South named their cities after older cities in the Mediterranean... video idea?

@danidejaneiro8378 6 лет назад

I did enjoy it, thank you very much.

@SWLinPHX 6 лет назад

Good job, Patrick. You always seem to have a cheerful disposition too.

@frankupton5821 6 лет назад

Thanks for doing these videos but I would like it if you tried to pronounce all those funny foreign names a bit more accurately.

@Samm815 6 лет назад

I was gonna say 2:34 a glitch in the matrix.

@stekske8654 6 лет назад

...and Hoboken is also a village south of the city of Antwerpen, Belgium. I guess there was a guy from Hoboken on that boat

@justfrank5661 4 года назад

I always wondered where that name came from!!!

@johnbakker4828 4 года назад

Quite possibly Hoboken was part of the Netherlands at that time, I know that (large parts of) Belgium used to be, but not exactly sure when, and too lazy to look it up. ;)

@brianthomas2434 4 года назад

@@johnbakker4828 If memory serves at one point both Belgium and Luxembourg were thought of as part of the Netherlands.

@Ozymandias1 4 года назад

Van Hoboken was an important Dutch ship merchant family. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Hoboken In Rotterdam, Netherlands there was the Land van Hoboken, which their family estate was located on. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_van_Hoboken The villa on the estate is now the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam.

@Ozymandias1 4 года назад

@@brianthomas2434 Belgium and Luxemburg were part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands Later the three countries formed the Benelux, which was a precursor to the current EU. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelux

@stephenscull901 3 года назад

I lived in Manhattan and in Peekskill, Westchester County to the north of the city. You will find many Dutch locations along the Metro North Railroad along the Hudson River. Names like Spuyten Deivil, Yonkers, Peekskill, Fishkill, Valhalla, and of course the widened part of the Hudson known as the Tappan Zee. At Sleepy Hollow the Dutch Reformed Church of the 16th Century still stands and in its churchyard are lots of graves of Dutch people with inscriptions like “Hier leyd begraven” (here lies buried).

@desanipt 5 лет назад

2:37 She was Portuguese :)

@Alusnovalotus 3 года назад

Yes..... but she was Queen consort of ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 =QUEENS not rainhas (and it doesn’t sound anything like it looks)

@vinoj8482 6 лет назад

I love how simple, yet amazing these videos are! 😊 Thank you!

@NameExplain 6 лет назад

Thank you :D They're simple because I have no idea how to make complex videos.

@vinoj8482 6 лет назад

Name Explain Don't worry, they're very effective 😁

@kahjunn9427 5 лет назад

"where are you from kid" "Queens" "Brooklyn"

@adr1xn17 4 года назад

Hes talking about cap and spidey

@nas7607 4 года назад

I’m originally from queens and that’s exactly what I say to see if people get confused 😂

@brianthomas2434 4 года назад

All well and good but what PART of Brooklyn? Where in Queens? Also while Chris Evans conceals his real life Massachusetts origins (just as Tom Holland doesn't sound like the Limey he is), he doesn't even attempt a Brooklyn accent. The classic Brooklyn accent, in these days of gentrification, is disappearing every day. It's probably for the best that Evans didn't try to replicate it.

@chanelmone4721 4 года назад

Nasif Zaman why would they get confused? Why cause you didn’t say New York ? To see if they could figure out you mean a place in New York ?

@duelknight69 4 года назад

You've got heart kid..

@croww_bar 6 лет назад

"New York City was the home of jazz" - Kansas City, Chicago, and New Orleans triggered

@Bobber256 4 года назад

How big are those apples? That seems to be the metric.

@wavyiann9788 3 года назад

New York is the home of jazz but Kansas City,Chicago, and New Orleans are the creators of jazz

@buddabulletproof 3 года назад

Kansas City? Chicago? gtfo. New Orleans is the one and only birthplace of jazz. It spread from there.

@astridismybff 3 года назад

@Terry Blanton new orleans is the home of jazz how anyone could deny that is beyond me. but in the 20th century, New York was undoubtly the center of jazz as that was where the premier clubs where and where the majority of legend musicians moved (Louis Armstrong lived in queens for the last 30 years of his life).

@thedaily_mangos1547 3 года назад

@@buddabulletproof trueee

@thefluffygames1878 6 лет назад

I'm from the Netherlands and i really liked this video because I never saw all those names and i really liked to see you trying to say dutch words.... I never thought dutch was that hard of a language for people from england till now!!!

@lolah3838 Год назад

When I was in the Netherlands, knowing English and basic German, I found the Dutch language almost entirely understandable. My friend who had no German, found it much more challenging.

@evamaynard3021 5 лет назад

Really love how you brought it back around to the Lenape. The whole beginning I was hoping they weren't left out. And wouldn't you know it, after all I thought I knew about NY, I never knew about new augoleme or that Manhattan dates back to a lenape word. Yes, there is brutality and colonization, but there can still be appreciation for all of the diverse ethnicities that make up this city and this beautiful country! Loved the music in the background too!

@dieselnine1022 11 месяцев назад

I'm part Lenape, so this is all cool to me.

@renshiwu305 6 лет назад

Kings County is the most populous county in New York State, not the largest county. FYI Flushing, Queens is named after Vlissingen in Holland, Bushwick comes from the Dutch Boswijk, and the Bowery gets its name from the Dutch term "bouwerij."

@dakrisis 6 лет назад

How about Flushing? It's named after an important port city called Vlissingen in the dutch province of Zeeland. That's also where New Zealand got it's name. Abel Tasman, an explorer for the East India Company named it after his home province and later discovered Australia (he named it New Holland) and obviously also the island of Tasmania.

@georgestreicher252 6 лет назад

I had an aunt and uncle that lived in Flushing. As a child, I always thought that was where my toilet in the Bronx emptied into.

@IAmTheAnswerer 6 лет назад

Some corrections (From a New Yorker!). Queens County is larger (square miles) than Kings County. Kings County has the highest population in the 5 boroughs. Kings County does not share a border with Brooklyn - Kings County is Brooklyn. St. Lawrence County is New York State's largest county by square miles.

@Lars3 6 лет назад

Thanks for making this video. I teach middle school history in Harlem and I will definitely be showing this video to my students at some point this school year.

@jimlaguardia8185 5 лет назад

As a native of NYC, I first became aware of the term The Big Apple in the early 60s, a decade before you claim the term was revived.

@nichonarpeters653 4 года назад

I love the music in the video. It is so nice and relaxing. Very mild and non-invasive to allow me to focus on the content of the video, unlike other videos that have so much music it takes away from being able to focus on what the video is about.

@viviennedickinson268 5 лет назад

Thanks for this. Very enlightening!!! I look forward to more🙂🙂🙂

@SupaEMT134 6 лет назад

*Finally, thank you!* A channel that _correctly_ references "The Bronx" instead of the oftentimes used "Bronx"

@Rainb0wzNstuff 2 года назад

Techailly Bronx is the name of the county that the bronx is conterminus with.

@mingfanzhang8927 2 года назад

Woke

@Arjibi 8 месяцев назад

Bronks

@SupaEMT134 8 месяцев назад

@@Arjibi Wrong

@publicminx 4 месяца назад

@SupaEMT: quite similar to a district/borough in Berlin which is called 'Der Wedding', 'The Wedding' (named after the nobility Rudolf de Weddinghe) and many ppl dont like it if it is just shorten to 'Wedding'. And its also 'one lives im Wedding' not 'in Wedding' (in German the difference is 'im' (= like inside or 'in the name of' etc.) and 'in' is more generic and similar to the English 'in' ...

@JoblessMusic 6 лет назад

I'm glad you included the Bronx. A majority of tourists tend to believe NYC is just Manhattan, when in fact the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn are part of the city too.

@atata2512 5 лет назад

What? The Bronx is worldwide famous for being scenario of a lot of movies

@Qboro66 5 лет назад

Staten Island to a lesser extent. That's Trump country out there.

@michaeljensen2013 5 лет назад

I'm from Queens and me and my friends would always say "do you want to go to the city" which meant Manhattan.

@robertdesio766 5 лет назад

@@Qboro66 . You bet!

@JPQFilms 5 лет назад

Jobless Music Staten Island isn’t worth visiting besides the ferry

@ezrabeyman3196 4 года назад

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

@combatjm89 6 лет назад

Excellent video! Born and raised in NYC, escaped years ago. My first NY/NA ancestors were Dutch and arrived in 1648.

@basilmarasco1975 4 года назад

Also, that major street in Lower Manhattan named "Bowery." "Bowery" comes from the Dutch word "bouwerie", meaning "farm."

@stefanbrandes1519 4 года назад

Boerderij is farm in Dutch. Bouwerie idk what it means but Bouw(en) is to build

@basilmarasco1975 4 года назад

@@stefanbrandes1519 Thank you. (Danke!)

@peterdevalk7929 4 года назад

@@basilmarasco1975 Bouwerij is Dutch for farm or even lease farm.

@edski8536 3 года назад

The 'bowels' of Manhattan

@basilmarasco1975 3 года назад

@@edski8536 My favorite parts of Manhattan ... East Village, lower Sixth Avenue, Chinatown, Little Italy, Washington Square, the Battery.

@nickgucci5029 6 лет назад

Great video!

@1joe60 6 лет назад

your videos are really improving. this was great.

@sylnyc2705 3 года назад

2:48 Kings County is not the "biggest" county in New York State. It is most-populated (2,559,903 - a 2019 estimate), but largest by area is St. Lawrence County, which borders with Canada.

@snowfloofcathug 6 лет назад

Yet another great video of yours ^-^ and did you say synomynous?

@stocktonnash 6 лет назад

Synomynous is synonymous with synonymous

@pavan923 5 лет назад

SpongeBob: Hey Patrick, guess what I am! Patrick: Nothing? SpongeBob: No, I'm Staten Island! Patrick: *What's the difference?*

@punchpills6008 5 лет назад

oof that hurt

@ainsleyjames4886 5 лет назад

Well, not really. It's only known for a boat. And blame the city government for neglecting it.

@robertdesio766 4 года назад

My guess is you're not a brain surgeon.

@buckzbandit2292 4 года назад

If they had more mta trains running through Staten island to Queens , bronx , Manhattan and Brooklyn , they wouldn't be so irrelevant

@zaprese 4 года назад

Is that because its poor?

@Phrenotopia 6 лет назад

Loved this video and you get extra points for naming and showing a picture of my original home town of Haarlem! :-D :-D

@filthyconnoisseur7945 6 лет назад

I just found this channel and subscribed. Really informative video

@fablereader4486 6 лет назад

Really liked this one!

@apefromthekitchen 5 лет назад

The Dutch almost had it all.

@samwst56 3 года назад

Should have kept the wall around wall street.

@kentbenedict2005 2 года назад

The dutch are good at exploring new places but suck at colonizing it.

@gaelgarciaisagod 3 года назад

Fascinating lesson. Thank you for posting.

@fminc 6 лет назад

Excellent, Subscribed. Very concise and accurate.ty

@RealMasterpieces 6 лет назад

Love New York! From Staten Island! Even though my family moved down to FL. I miss you, New York. :(

@boarderking133 6 лет назад

RealMasterpieces same here. Same sentiments.

@stephenbritton9297 6 лет назад

The earliest of my ancestors to arrive in the new world were amongst the first Brits to settle on Staten Island after the de-dutch-ification (to make up a word)

@blitzen0619 6 лет назад

Very interesting insight, awesome stuff

@MrLuvOldies 5 лет назад

Thanks.Very good video,and information.

@widziunas 5 лет назад

0:51 explains where the Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants, and later the NY Mets and Islanders got their colors from

@SOS_JA 2 года назад

NYC and Manhattan are the same

@rodrigofpteixeira 3 года назад

So "Queens" is due to a portuguese queen, how incredible

@robertphillips6296 4 года назад

I gave always wondered about that, thank you for posting.

@SKULnBONZ 6 лет назад

Thanks for the quick history lesson!

@kimsiewers 6 лет назад

Until recently, Staten Island was the Borough of Richmond. It is also referred to as Richmond County, New York. It became the "Borough of Staten Island" in 1975 to end confusion.

@eyewatch2see77 4 года назад

@Kim Siewers > ALSO *brooklyn & queens* < BOTH technically "long island" ... long island is made up of 4 counties > kings county (brooklyn) queens county (queens) nassau county & suffolk county

@jasonpalacios1363 5 лет назад

Also the origin of the Dutch word "Konijin" came from the Spanish word "conejo" in which it means rabbit being that Holland were once under Spanish rule.

@hoopsheavenpa 4 года назад

Very interesting video! Thank you!

@elliemm557 5 лет назад

Very, very interesting. Thank you!

@conni70 6 лет назад

Catherine of Braganza, of which the borough of Queens is named after, was Portuguese

@Sn1PeRZzBLOOD 5 лет назад

I live near Breukelen, went to school there. Never knew Brooklyn was based on the name Breukelen.

@maartenj.vermeulen900 4 года назад

Truly horrible you don't know your own village history abroad!

@johnrogan9420 4 года назад

Broken land?

@maartenj.vermeulen900 4 года назад

@@johnrogan9420 No, Breukelen does not mean broken land at all.

@amazing50000 2 месяца назад

There are Housing Projects in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn called Breukelen Houses, so yeah.

@KewhoMin 6 лет назад

Great video! I didn't know any of this!

@F3tcher 6 лет назад

That was a very nice video well done

@aaronbays4 4 года назад

Always found it interesting how such a huge geographical area, divided by different bodies of water and developed over different time periods(literally centuries separate when roads were laid in some parts of the city) could come together to form one central city government. Then you look at some place like Atlanta, where the city proper is under 500,000 residents but the metro area is 4 million people, with over 30 different local cities, county governments, towns, etc Each of them their own little fiefdom, with different school districts, tax rates, etc. City services are duplicated and run by different administrative bodies, overall its a very inefficient and wasteful form of government IMO. Also the Altanta system leads to a lot of infighting and NIMBY bullshit between these local governments, its the main reason Atlanta's MARTA train system doesn't go to most of the suburbs and why the traffic sucks so bad.

@shiningarmor2838 6 лет назад

4:13 Synomonous?

@jonnyl.a.4169 6 лет назад

I thought it was just me.

@stocktonnash 6 лет назад

Synomynous is synonymous with synonymous

@nitramluap 6 лет назад

No. Not just you. Seriously, if people are going to insist on narrating their 'Wikipedia to RU-vid animations' they really should learn to read properly.

@jamesmcinnis208 4 года назад

@@nitramluap yes, and also realize that the word "iconic" has been overused to the point of making it meaningless.

@nasifulhuda31 6 лет назад

This was a good video! I always wondered about the borough names.

@josephcampese5347 4 года назад

23 years Wikipedia has been around but Hudaman waits for a RU-vid video so he can be spoon fed.

@KattMurr 6 месяцев назад

We have a Tulip Festival in Albany every spring. Its whenever Mother's Day is. The festival starts on a Friday with a parade and crowning of the Tulip Queen. Then Washington Park is filled with vendors and live music that Saturday and Sunday....it was a blast when I was a teenager in the late '80's....

@heronimousbrapson863 5 лет назад

"The Bronx" sounds like part of the respiratory system.

@spambaconeggspamspam 5 лет назад

Bronchi is the word we use for the branches (literal translation) of the respiratory tract in the lungs.

@berzerker1100 4 года назад

@@spambaconeggspamspam 👍 thanks for that 😅

@weorgegashington9689 4 года назад

I got the bronxchitis

@xnortheast1106 4 года назад

Tubmaster 5000 no

@xnortheast1106 4 года назад

Boomer W no

@Sam_on_YouTube 6 лет назад

I lived for about 10 years in the Bronx neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil. I still can't spell that dutch name without looking it up. My father-in-law has a painting of Johannes Bronk in his office.

@Hexagonaal 4 года назад

The good thing is that Dutch people don't spell that way anymore :-)

@scootscootriot1020 6 лет назад

Great video. Never knew some of origins of the boroughs getting named what they are. 👍👍👍👍👍

@Phrenotopia 6 лет назад

Quickly! Somebody fetch History with Hilbert, so he can insert the "Wilhelmus" national anthem!

@maartenknoops9031 6 лет назад

Name Explain should do a colab with Hilbert. Love both of their vids.

@NameExplain 6 лет назад

I've seen bits and bobs of his stuff, he seems cool :)

@Nhoj31neirbo47 6 лет назад

Queens is the most ethnically diverse place on the planet. 50% of the residents are foreign born. 140 languages are spoken there.

@Nhoj31neirbo47 6 лет назад

Paul V. Montefusco - Cool thoughts! I've spent many summers on Fire Island. I tell people it's an island off the Atlantic side of Long Island. Being somewhat ignorant of basic U.S. geography, they usually can't picture it.

@neshmicc 6 лет назад

John OBrien Gardener Toronto is the most diverse city on the planet. Over 50% of people in the entire city aren't born in Canada.

@hvgades15 6 лет назад

John OBrien Gardener actually Toronto and London are more diverse

@q3b26 6 лет назад

There's over 300 recognised languages spoken in London though but not in a single borough.

@sjappiyah4071 6 лет назад

Incorrect, Toronto is the most diverse, 52% are foreign born

@VirenDHW 3 года назад

WOW I luv ur videos!!!

@wandacorley2251 4 года назад

Hahaha, thanku for the information on each boro. That's why I chose thumbs up!

@StevenQ74 4 года назад

You forgot Flushing wich actualy is derived from the Dutch city of Vlissingen

@newslayer 6 лет назад

name explain is my city

@kav2000 6 лет назад

godchurch

@augustinedaudu9203 6 лет назад

newslayer3351 it's Tessa City and the competition shook these countries up on me and I got them off the hook

@peabody1976 6 лет назад

I like this, even when you said "Verrazzano". Thank you!

@michaelcastillo3231 4 года назад

Thanks. Very informative.

@the120cxx 5 лет назад

Gonna have to remember these name origins if I do a story ark in New york.

@namefinder 6 лет назад

I just realized that if people working with horses call something "apple", it might not necessarily be a positive thing.

@deborahbriscoe-graves6244 5 лет назад

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

@MichaelRabbitBass3 6 лет назад

Very Informing thank you

@michaelpreston233 6 лет назад

Nice and informative.

@mysimpletoon 6 лет назад

im from the BRONX, sarge.

@TheGuyThatDie 6 лет назад

a lot of the neighborhoods also have Dutch origin names like Bushwick, Flushing (English name for Vlissingen) Bowery, etc, and a lot of English inspired names, such as the neighborhood of Jamaica, and Jamaica bay, and even ethnic groups like Little Italy, Nolita (North of Little Italy). Some are even acronyms, SoHO and NoHo, South of Houston Street and North of Houston Street (Houston is pronounced How-sten, not like the city) and Tribeca stands for Triangle Below Canal Street. Such a weird city.

@heronimousbrapson863 5 лет назад

Dr. Thome - I thought Soho was named for Soho in London, England

@andymccabe6102 4 года назад

Great stuff, thank you.

@LaPotraBellaca 4 года назад

Great documentary

@davidbroughall3782 6 лет назад

4:17 A couple of those arrows are actually pointing at Canada.

@tomryan914 4 года назад

"The Country That Fun Forgot". I can say that, I live there!

@maga6252 4 года назад

Oh we love our neighbors! 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

@teklife8271 5 лет назад

SHOUTOUT TO THE TOP OF NY 💯BX

@Cullenfields 6 лет назад

Even in the New York Metropolitan area (Long Island and the Hudson Valley), you can find Dutch influence For instance, Hempstead on Long Island derived from the Dutch, Heemstede The individual names of Nassau County (on Long Island) and Orange County (in the Hudson Valley) also have Dutch influence Also, Warwick (in Orange County) is often nicknamed "the apple capital of the world" and had one of the few wineries that survived prohibition (due to manufacturing communion wine) Also a lot of towns in the Hudson Valley whose names have "-kill" at the end (i.e. Peekskill, Catskill, etc.)...The "-kill" is Dutch for "creek"

@Yochemm 6 лет назад

Brooklyn's name becomes from "Breukelen". This is a village in the near of Amsterdam. Flushing's name becomes from "Vlissingen". This is a town in province Zealand in The Netherlands, It's also the birthtown of "Michiel de Ruyter", who was a famous admiral of the Dutch fleet.

@abbielong9316 4 года назад

Brooklyn isn't New York biggest county, not even close and it isn't even its largest brough that's Queens. 2:50

@anthonypancaldo4635 3 года назад

Counties are determined by population to create jurisdictions (the court system). Kings (Brooklyn) is the most populated county in NY State . Queens is the largest of the 5 NY City BOROUGHS in area

@superstructure23 6 лет назад

Make New York New Amsterdam again!

@jakedeane5304 6 лет назад

Hank that's a shit name though?

@augustinedaudu9203 6 лет назад

Hank no, we New Yorkers want it to stay

@mr.meeseeks8229 6 лет назад

Screw that, Make Istanbul Constantinople again!

@ghrtfhfgdfnfg 6 лет назад

I used to think like you

@AdamSmith-gs2dv 6 лет назад

Good name for a new state! #removeNYCfromNYS

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 4 месяца назад

I loved this video!!! 🏆 🍎 👑

@BrofessorHEMann 5 лет назад

Great vid....breaking down each borough would be a cool vid. Kings, Queens, Richmond, Manhattan and Da Bronx all have their own little towns....dozens upon dozens, each with their own vibe, culture, and history.....

@aleccoccioli5571 6 лет назад

It's really not nice when people complain about the pronunciation of foreign words. After all the channel is Name Explain, not Pronunciation Explain :P I can also hear that Patrick has a slite speech impediment (me too) so I wish people would be nicer. Patrick has a way of speaking that I personally find very pleasing to listen to omg. Great video as always, all the love!

@SWLinPHX 6 лет назад

Alec Coccioli: Nice sentiment Alec. 👍🏻

@rw3899 6 лет назад

He really butchered the pronunciation, tho. Like not even trying

@mimimotor 6 лет назад

In Holland honesty comes before politeness. They are used to people saying it as it is, they don't take truth unnecessary personal. Neither do they take fake praise serious. In addition it's quite possible to be friendly without being overtly polite.

@donbradman334 6 лет назад

Even old New York was once new Amsterdam. Why’d they change it? I can’t say. People just liked it better that way.

@fivoskoustenis6161 6 лет назад

donbradman334 TAKE ME BACK TO CONSTANTINOPLE

@DimitriEyonovich 6 лет назад

NO YOU CANT GO BACK TO CONSTANTINOPLE

@kirat147 6 лет назад

IT'S ISTANBUL NOT CONSTANTINOPLE

@ArjanHier 6 лет назад

+Rita What's an 'Istanbul'?

@corrigal1859 6 лет назад

ArjanHier it's a turkey

@Shantased 5 лет назад

VERY INTERESTING 👍🏿GOOD JOB THANKS

@user-ju7es7ou5n 3 года назад

i’m from kingsbridge in the bronx born and raised and very proud of where i came from!!! it fuels me more knowing we was born to lose!! 💯🔝🙏🏻💪🏻🥶🙌🇵🇷

@MiNombreesBean 6 лет назад

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten From the battery To the top of Manhattan

@alejandroblanco2722 6 лет назад

What is the name of the island where they originally had claims before buying Manhattan? Is there any info about any activity on that island? I always thought the history of NYC started in lower Manhattan. Great videos!

@JoshuaKimbrough 6 лет назад

Alejandro Blanco governor's island

@jmchez 6 лет назад

The story goes that those natives were just passing by and couldn't care less about the Island. They did like the free trinkets that they got for a land that they did not own (settled).

@revolvingworld2676 6 лет назад

Richard Head Hard to beleive it I know, but not all the settlers wanted to kill all the natives. Many of them did trades with each other.

@ronaldderooij1774 6 лет назад

@Richard Head: Yes I believe that. And if you studied the topic, you would believe it too as it is well documented in the Dutch national archive in The Hague. Another question is how the natives saw the deal as for them property had not the same meaning as for Europeans. For them, it was probably a kind of "licence to live there and be able to trade beavers".

@jpstenino 6 лет назад

Grand video congratulations

@veritas6464 6 лет назад

Thanks, excellent vid ;)

@oscarkronborg7176 5 лет назад

1:26 that map is wrong, the 3 southern provinces of modern day Sweden were still part of Denmark by that time

@tejera69 6 лет назад

Nice to see a video without any BS political statements from the left or the right thank you for posting

@wmthewyld 6 лет назад

Very informative.

@rosalindkincannon1078 5 лет назад

Thank you great video 🐴

@jay-rock6627 6 лет назад

I love hearing & learning about these stories I'm from NEW YORK 🌃. Do a episode on how Long Island New York get it's name & how did it become a part of NEW YORK.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 6 лет назад

It was named after an iced tea popular there.

@BlackScisir 6 лет назад

well.... it's a long island

@muggs00 5 лет назад

Scisir it’s actually a peninsula.

@rubina1868 5 лет назад

Jay-Rock even though it is a peninsul unless it used to be an island then connected to queens

@rubina1868 5 лет назад

Jay-Rock manhattan was home to 55 species of animals and steps court house are build over a water body chelsea has a river tribconnecting to hudson river