{"id":6060,"date":"2010-04-20T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2013-08-23T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:28:06","slug":"annoying-place-in-dutch-verveelen-place-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/04\/20\/annoying-place-in-dutch-verveelen-place-bronx\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying Place (in Dutch) &#8211; Verveelen Place, Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/bronx\/bronx_verveelen02.jpg?resize=500%2C748\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9\u00a0Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The verb\u00a0<em>to annoy<\/em> is<em> verveelen<\/em> in Dutch (pronounced &#8220;fer-fail`-en&#8221;).\u00a0When passing the <em>Robert&#8217;s Books &amp; Stationery \/ Kornblau-Goldblum Supply Co<\/em> signs on the Major Deegan Expressway, I never thought I&#8217;d be rediscovering another odd Dutch street name. Brooklyn has its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?s=varkens\" target=\"_blank\">Varkens Hoek<\/a><\/strong><strong> (Hog&#8217;s Corner)<\/strong> and <strong>Paerdegats (Horse&#8217;s Hole) <\/strong>street names and the Bronx has its<strong> Annoying Place. \u00a0<\/strong>But in all reality, this street probably got its name from a Dutchman with the surname, ver Veelen. <a href=\"http:\/\/cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca\/people\/dobson\/genealogy\/documents\/Verveelen_NYGBR_133.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the genealogical study<\/a> of this family name by John Blythe Dobson for the New York Genealogical &amp; Biographical Record &#8211; April, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verb\u00a0to annoy is verveelen in Dutch (pronounced &#8220;fer-fail`-en&#8221;).\u00a0When passing the Robert&#8217;s Books &amp; Stationery \/ Kornblau-Goldblum Supply Co signs on the Major Deegan Expressway, I never thought I&#8217;d be rediscovering another odd Dutch street name. Brooklyn has its Varkens Hoek (Hog&#8217;s Corner) and Paerdegats (Horse&#8217;s Hole) street names and the Bronx has its Annoying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[219,456,458,1130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronx","category-dutch","category-dutch-american-connexions","category-odd-dutch-street-names"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1zK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13880,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}