Turtle Bay, in the East 40s and 50s from Park Avenue east to the East River, likely takes its name from a Dutch term meaning “bent blade,” probably referencing the shape of the shoreline. It is somewhat hard to believe it now, but along the waterfront slaughterhouses had to be razed in the 1940s to […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2016/10/trygvie-lie-plaza-turtle-bay/
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