Book chapter
Independent Yonkers, Expansionist New York
The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
Harvard University Press
28 Feb 2005
Abstract
In the summer of 1665, one year after he had seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch, Colonel Richard Nicolls declared “that the Inhabitants of New Yorke, New Harlem, with all other His Majesty’s Subjects, Inhabitants upon this Island, . . . are, and shall bee for ever, accounted, Nominated and Established, as one Body Politique & Corporate, under the Government of a Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffe.”¹ Thus the island of Manhattan became the exclusive domain of a single city and remained so for the next 209 years, after which New York City’s jurisdiction began to expand. While New York’s present-day
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- Title
- Independent Yonkers, Expansionist New York
- Creators
- Richardson Dilworth
- Publication Details
- The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics; Center for Public Policy
- Identifiers
- 991020537632704721