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Stuyvesant

[ US /ˈstaɪvəsənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672)

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  • Leaving with his daily afternoon coffee fix, Porto Rico customer Devin Nee , 25 years old, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, said he had noticed the increase, but for good coffee, it's worth it. Coffee's Jolt Hits the Wallet First
  • Many newspapers, periodicals and fiction of the day detailed the accidents and almost-accidents which befell early motorists, such as when Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, upon taking her new motorcar for a trial run, accidentally drove backwards and knocked over a passing man, and then proceeded to drive over him twice more before he got away and she got out of the car. To Drive a Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
  • Stuyvesant allowed the burgomasters and schepens to nominate their successors, but the city did not have a schout of its own until 1660. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
  • In February, hundreds of eighth graders lammed the halls, took over classrooms, and set off fire alarms at Junior High School 2.58 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. 1968 the Year that Rocked the World
  • They've had a rough go of it over the record-smashing Stuyvesant Town-Cooper Village acquisition, but "Speyer" arguably remains the marquee surname in New York commercial real estate, with 15 million top-shelf square feet in midtown alone, including Rockefeller Center and the land lease on the Chrysler Building. Home | The New York Observer
  • In fact governor Stuyvesant, like the celebrated Montalembert, held bastions in absolute contempt; yet did he not like him substitute a tenaille angulaire des polygons à ailerons. A History of New York
  • Stuyvesant, grousing, harassed the exiles and hampered their efforts to buy homes and cemetery plots.
  • The disparities were the worst at Stuyvesant, where 2 percent of blacks, 3 percent of Hispanics, 24 percent of whites and 72 percent of Asians were accepted. Stats Help for Journalists and the Public
  • But seriously, I hope Stuyvesant Town can return to/retain its middler-classy mission. MetaFilter
  • The money that leaves Spanish Harlem or Bedford Stuyvesant to purchase the latest, most expensive pair of kicks most likely isn't going back into those neighborhoods.
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