Talk:Bloomingdale District

Reflist; Transportation ignorance
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This article shows a remarkable ignorance in transportation. Until today there was no information about the 9th Avenue elevated. Authors of the wikipedia articles forget that there was urbanization of the city via elevateds before the subway, and urbanization before the elevated. Look at the census records.

Further investigation needs to be made about RR stations of the West Side, east shore of Hudson River, line. Were there any stations from the 1850s to the 1860s when a train came down the west side? Note this sentence about the diversion of the Hudson River RR to the east, south of Spuyten Duyvil, from West Side Line: "In 1871 the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad opened, and most passenger trains were rerouted into the new Grand Central Depot via that line along the northeast bank of the Harlem River and the New York and Harlem Rail Road." Surely, there may have been some Upper West Side train station during the years that the Hudson Rive passenger trains only came down the Hudson River (prior to their diversion since 1871 to Grand Central Station).Dogru144 (talk) 07:08, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Manhattan was English, not Dutch in 18th Century
This area was not settled by Europeans until the English had gotten control of the area in 1664, and by most indications, the Bloomingdale was not settled until the 19th century, so it silly to ponder what the Dutch would have called the area.Dogru144 (talk) 07:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)