LONG ISLAND CITY

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LONG ISLAND CITY , formerly a city of Queens county, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, U.S.A., and since the 1st of January 1898 the first ward of the Borough of Queens, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

City. Pop. (188o) 17,129, (1890) 30,506, (1900) 48,272, of whom 15,899 were foreign-born. It has a river front, on

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

river and Long Island Sound, of
10 m., and is the eastern terminal and the headquarters of the Long Island railway, having a large Y.M.C.A. building (the

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

of Mrs Russell Sage) for employees of this railway. Among manufactures are chemicals, pottery, varnish, silk, &c., and there are oil-storage warehouses. Most of the borough offices of
Queens borough are in Long Island City, which was formerly
the county-seat of Queens county. The first

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

within
the limits of what subsequently became Long Island City was
made in 164o by a Dutch blacksmith, Hendrick Harmensen,
who soon afterward was murdered by an Indian. Other settlers,
both Dutch and English, soon followed, and established detached
villages, which became known as Hunter's Point, Blissville,

Astoria

ASTORIA

, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Middleton and Steinway.
In 1853 this group of villages, by that time virtually one corn. munity, was called Long Island City, and it was formally incorporated under that name in 187o. In 18711872 the city was laid out by a commission of which General W. B. Franklin was president. Political convictions, economic considerations and fear combined to make the residents in this region largely loyalist in their attitude during the War of Independence. From 1776 to 1783 British troops occupied Newtown, a

village

VILLAGE

to the S.E. In January 1776 the committee on the state of New York in Congress reported a resolution that "Whereas a majority of the inhabitants of Queens county, in the colony of New York, being incapable of resolving to live and die free men, . . . all such persons as voted against sending deputies to the present convention in New York . . . be put out of the protection of the United Colonies," &c., an action which led to the arrest and imprisonment of many of the accused persons.
See J. S. Kelsey, History of Long Island City (Long Island City, 1896).

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