THE DUTCH AT HOME AND ABROAD 83

when the English were in power, they changed the name
to Albany, after the Duke of York and Albany, better
known to you, perhaps, by his later title, King James
IL. of England.

Look at the names of many down-town streets of New
York city, once called New Amsterdam,—Cortlandt, Van-
dam, Roosevelt, Stuyvesant, and scores of others all nained
after good Dutchmen. Not only New York, but Brooklyn,
Albany, and other cities have streets that lead one directly
into the Netherlands, so to speak. Indeed, Dutch names
he sprinkled very thickly within a hundred miles of Fifth
Avenue in every direction. You readily may suspect the
origin of Harlem, named when it was a little hamlet quite
far fron New Amsterdam, but connected with it by a
country road known as the Bouerie. This Bouerie, or
Bowerie, now spelled Bowery, no longer has the rural,
bower-like aspect it enjoyed in those old days; for then
it was a road through the farm or bowerie of Peter Stuy-
vesant, the last Dutch colonial governor of these New
Netherlands.

Few New-Yorkers nowadays stop to ask why Eleventh
street, which extends across the city from the East to the
North River, should break off at Fourth Avenue and begin
again on the west side of Broadway. But they know that
a long solid block—its southwestern corner beautitied by
Grace Church and its parsonage—reaches from Tenth
street to Twelfth street. The fact is, Eleventh street was
stopped just there by a Dutchman, or an honored citizen
of Dutch descent, named Brevoort. Mrs. Lamb, in her
“ History of New York,” tells us that the mansion of Henry