Bogardius Place (Manhattan)
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Bogardus Place is located in the Fort Tryon section of in the New York City borough of Manhattan (ZIP Code 10040). It was opened in 1912, and runs one block (641.7 feet) between Hillside Avenue and Elmwood Street, and is named for the family who previously owned much of the land that forms both Fort Tryon Park, and the Fort Tryon section.
The Bogardus family in America started in 1633, when Reverend Everardus Bogardus arrived in New Amsterdam to become that community's second clergyman. Prominent members of that family included James Bogardus, who pioneered in the construction of cast-iron buildings during the 1840's.[1]
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- ^ The Street Book by Henry Moscow; Fordham University Press 1978.
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