New York
- New Amsterdam (17th century) is now New York
- Pigtown, Brooklyn is now Wingate, Brooklyn
- Nieuw Amersfoort is now Flatlands, Brooklyn
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Famous quotes containing the word york:
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”
—Warner Leroy, U.S. restaurateur, founder of Maxwell’s Plum restaurant, New York City. New York Times (July 9, 1976)