New York Names

Is there land under those buildings?  eight double

"Manhattan" is said to come from "Mannahatta," which means "island of many hills" in the Lenape dialect. But it's not the only New York name with a picturesque past. Take Hell's Kitchen, Morningside Heights, Times Square, Harlem, for example: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/144571
And here's the story of one Eric W. Sanderson and his quest to recreate, via computer and guidebook, the island as it looked before all the buildings came to be: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/nyregion/urban-tactics-i-ll-take-mannahatta.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm