© Frank H. Jump
FINALLY A NYC LANDMARK! Lady Moody House – 27 Gravesend Neck Road – Van Sicklen House
Frank Jump & Willy Broekveldt Jump in front of the reputed home of Lady Deborah Moody – Gravesend Neck, Brooklyn – photo by Richard Koek for the National Archive of the Netherlands in April 2009
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taken by assistant to photographer Richard Koek (van Heineken) 2009
2009 © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Congrats to Joseph Ditta and all of the people hardworking preservationists who fought to get this building landmarked.
Borden’s Revisited – Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
The Cartography of Johannes Vinckeboons (Vingboons) – Manatus Eylant – Nieuw Amsterdam
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One of the earliest maps of NY Harbor:
TITLE: Manatvs Gelegen op de Noot [sic] Riuier [sic]
(Manhattan Lying on the North River) but with the typo, Manhattan Lying on the Nut (River- misspelled)
YEAR: 1639
LANGUAGE: Dutch
CREATOR: Johannes Vinckeboons
Governors Island was called Nut Island (Noot Eÿlant)
Earliest depiction of Nieuw Amsterdam 1652 – Johannes Vinckeboons
Earliest depiction of Nieuw Amsterdam 1652 – Johannes Vinckeboons
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