Pages

Monday, August 04, 2008

Intriguing Street Names of New York Parts IV and V


Corner of Throop Avenue and Whipple Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:08 PM

    Very intriguing names, indeed.

    Paz

    ReplyDelete
  2. hi paz,

    This one might be my very favorite corner so far.

    ReplyDelete
  3. this is so dutch-american sounding....

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anonymous7:55 PM

    Throop and Whipple sounds like a law firm in a Dickens novel.

    ReplyDelete
  5. thanks miriam and nomi.

    A website devoted to Whipple family genealogy indicates that someone married a Throop at some point. Whipple was among the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

    Ponte Vecchio mentions that this corner used to be in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but has of late fallen into the Williamsburg sphere-of-influence.

    ReplyDelete