![]() ![]() The capital city of the Bahamas, meanwhile, was named thus in 1695, also for William of Orange. After US independence the name Long Island was restored, but when a new county was formed for three eastern towns of Queens in 1898, it was decided to name the new county Nassau. Dutch explorers originally called it t’Lange Eylandt, or Long Island, but then during William III’s time the British took to calling it Nassau Island. Nassau was also an old name for Long Island. Dutch royalty remains to this day in the House of Orange-Nassau. William’s army had forced Mary’s father, King James II, out of power. ![]() King William III of England, the person for whom the street name was bestowed, became king in 1689 and was Dutch by ancestry his wife, Mary, was British. Nassau Street was named by 1696 for the House of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands, which extended back to the Charlemagne (he ruled western Europe from 768-814 AD). There are a couple still around, though - Prince Street in SoHo is one, and Nassau Street is another. ![]() Queen became Pearl, King George Street became William (for early NYC mayor Wiliam Beckman), Crown became Liberty, and so forth. Pretty much all of them were wiped off the map after the USA won independence for good and all in 1783 and the British evacuated the country and NYC in particular. When NYC was still subject to the British Crown there were a number of streets downtown named Queen, Duke, and other royal titles. ![]()
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