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"Local, small businesses come and go over time, but a neighborhood's origin never changes.\nNow you can learn about the etymology of New York City locations with an interactive map that presents a primer on the original Native American and Dutch names.\nSee also: Interactive Map Pinpoints Every NYC Reference in Songs\nThe map explains how location names evolved under the Native Americans, the Dutch, and finally, the English colonizers. Some names have interesting meanings. For example, the original Dutch name for Gramercy Park, Kromme Zee (\"crooked swamp\"), described an original landscape very different from the park we see today. Some names are just downright funny. Cobble Hill was originally Ponkiesburgh. A hill on Fisher's Island was originally called Chocomount.\n\nThe project, made on Google Maps, is the brainchild of Constantine Valhouli, who also created the NYC music map and the \"Fauxlore\" project.\nValhouli, a real estate developer, told Mashable that he was inspired to create the map after talking to some real estate developer friends about how neighborhood names change, which are the \"real\" names and which were created for marketing purposes, and how an arbitrary ruling on what neighborhood a property falls in can have a huge bearing on its value. He was intrigued and decided to create a map showing the original, pre-English names for everything from trendy neighborhoods to parks to streets.\nValhouli assembled the map with the help of friends who specialize in urban planning, museum studies, and native history and etymology.\nExplore the map to see what your neighborhood was called hundreds of years ago.\nBONUS: 5 Evocative Artists Inspired by Google Street View\n\n\nGoogle Street View Art Projects\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Paolo Cirio\n\nIn a series called Street Ghosts, artist Paolo Cirio scoured for Street View images with people in them. Once he selected the image, he created a life-size poster of the people in the photos, then plastered them to the walls of the places they had been.\n\nImage:  Paolo Cirio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Cioro piece at 80 East Houston Street, New York, N.Y. \n\nImage: Paolo Cirio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Jon Rafman\n\nArtist Jon Rafman creates surreal images by compiling the stranger photos captured by Google.\n\nImage:  Jon Rafman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Jon Rafman piece.\n\nImage:  Jon Rafman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Justin Blinder\n\nJustin Binder uses his art to create dramatic before-and-after GIFs of gentrification. The piece above is at 91-93 Bowery Street, New York, N.Y.\n\nImage:  Justin Blinder\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Justin Blinder piece, of 11 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.\n\nImage:  Justin Blinder\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Emilio Vavarella\n\n\nArtist Emilio Vavarella strung three separate projects together, as The Google Trilogy. \nAbove is an image from his hyper-colored series \"Report a Problem,\" which captures images of errors on GSV. \n\n\nImage:  Emilio Vavarella\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Vavarella image from \"Report a Problem.\" \n\nImage:  Emilio Vavarella\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVavarella's second series is called \"Michele's Story.\" The photo story is a collaboration with a man named Michele, who was left paralyzed in 2007 due to an accident.\n\nImage:  Emilio Vavarella\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCompleting Vavarella's trilogy is \"The Drivers and the Cameras,\" a trippy portrait series.\n\nImage:  Emilio Vavarella\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Halley Docherty\n\n\nHalley Docherty is the Google Street View specialist for British publication The Guardian. As such, he put his expertise to use by recreating classic album covers, pairing up the vintage photos with their modern day map counterparts.\nThe image above is of the 1969 Beatles album Abbey Road, which features the Fab Four in London, walking just outside Abbey Road Studios. \n\n\nImage:  Halley Docherty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDocherty also tackled Bob Dylan's 1963 release, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The photograph of the singer arm in arm with girlfriend Suze Rotolo was taken on Jones Street in the West Village, N.Y.\n\nImage:  Halley Docherty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Docherty project superimposes historical paintings with the Street View images of today.\nAbove is the 1643 painting \"Group Portrait of the Oude Voetboog Guild on the Grote Markt,\" by David Teniers II. \n\n\nImage:  Halley Docherty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis piece seamlessly pairs Canaletto's 1732 work \"A Regatta on the Grand Canal,\" with Street View images of modern day Venice.\n\nImage:  Halley Docherty\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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