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Minetta Creek
Minetta Creek (sometimes called Minetta Brook, Minetta Stream, Minetta Water,〔Eric W. Sanderson, ''Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City'' (New York: Abrams, 2009), Appendix A, p. 250.〕 Minetta Waters,〔(Geismar, Joan H. ''Washington Square Park: Phase 1A Archeological Assessment''. Prepared for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Prepared through Thomas Balsey Associates. August 2005: ) 5.〕 or by its Dutch name, Bestevaer's Killetje, before the American Revolutionary War),〔 was a stream that was among the largest natural watercourses in Manhattan, New York City.〔"Largest": "Sources of Great Danger," ''New York Times'' (Jan. 17, 1892), p. 6; cf the Great Kill that ran through what is now Times Square (Sanderson, 2009:253) and Saw Kill (Sanderson, 2009:254).〕 Nearly two miles long, it began from two tributaries, the main one having its source〔"near the site of the Union Club" (Charles Homer Haswell, ''"Reminiscences of New York by an octogenarian'', 1896, quoted in Sanderson, 2009:250; the Union Club premises until 1903 were at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street.〕 near what is now Fifth Avenue and Twenty-first Street, and a secondary one that had its source at Sixth Avenue and Sixteenth Street.〔Haswell 1896 quoted in Sanderson, 2009:250.〕 The streams flowed southward and joined between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. From there it flowed southward across what is today Washington Square Park, it then crossed southwest, traversing what is today its namesake street – Minetta Street – and then Downing Street, eventually discharging into the Hudson River near what is currently Charlton Street.〔"Manhattan's Little Streets and Alleys, Reminders of Simple and Earlier Days," New York Times (Dec. 15, 1912), p. XX3; Sanderson, 2009:250.〕 The creek was filled in by the mid-nineteenth century, although it persisted as an underground stream through the twentieth century.〔"Diggers at Jefferson Market Unearth Old Minetta Creek," ''New York Times'' (Dec. 1, 1929), p. 27.〕 Debate continues on whether the creek still exists.〔C. J. Hughes, "Preserving the Alignment of Some Zany Stars," ''New York Times'' (Jun. 25, 2006), p. J9.〕
== Origins of name ==
A plaque affixed to the building at Two Fifth Avenue provides one derivation of the name and reads as follows:
Another theory is that the name is an anglicization of the Dutch root "min" or "minuut" (English: little) and suffix "-tje" to produce "Minnetje" or "The little one" to distinguish it from the Groot Kill, a large creek that was a mile away.〔"Greenwich Village – The History Of A City Square," unidentified author, unidentified periodical, dated "early 1900s," reprinted at: (http://www.oldandsold.com/articles13/greenwich-village-1.shtml ).〕
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