MAP OF NEW YORK CITY VILLAGE MINETTA BROOK DRAINAGE AREA ABOVE 6TH AVENUE 1889

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MAP OF NEW YORK CITY VILLAGE MINETTA BROOK DRAINAGE AREA ABOVE 6TH AVENUE 1889
8 /4" X 9 7/8"
Minetta Creek was one of Manhattan's largest natural waterways. Nearly 2 miles long, Minetta Creek began from two tributaries, the main one having its source near Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, and a secondary one that had its source at Sixth Avenue and 16th Street. The streams flowed southward and joined within the block bound by 11th and 12th Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. From there it flowed southward across modern-day Washington Square Park. It then crossed southwest along the present route of Minetta Lane, one of the creek's namesake streets. The creek then roughly followed the current path of Minetta Street, a one-block road going south from Minetta Lane before curving southwest to meet Sixth Avenue. Minetta Creek then turned west along what is now Downing Street and eventually discharged into the Hudson River near Charlton Street.
Minetta Creek is alternatively called Minetta Brook, Minetta Stream, Minetta Water, or Minetta Waters. It was also referred to by its Dutch name, Bestevaer's Killetje, before the American Revolutionary War. A plaque affixed to the building at Two Fifth Avenue provides one derivation of the "Minetta" name and reads as follows:
A brook winds its erratic way beneath this site
The Indians called it Manette or Devil's Water To the Dutch settlers it was Bestevaer's Killetje or Grandfather's Little Creek For the past two centuries familiar to this neighborhood as Minetta Brook.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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