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the bowery boys on: Jamaica, Queens

Sep 16th, 2008
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Jamaica Queens - © Frank H. Jump

Jamaica Queens - © Frank H. Jump

Name That Neighborhood: Jamaica is an English distortion of an Algonquin tribe that inhabited this Long Island outpost — the Jameco Indians (also referred to as the Yamecah tribe). They were named after the Algonquin word for beaver. –    Bowery Boys

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