# Place names (plus a ship).

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 15, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-names-plus-a-ship/22527 "2000-06-15T23:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-names-plus-a-ship/22527/21 "2000-06-18T18:35:00Z")

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> What the hell is Stuyvesant? Isn’t that a ghetto in NYC?  
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Il s’en faut beaucoup (far from it!) Stuyvesant is a public  
HS in NYC which specializes in the sciences. I think in  
L.A. we’d call it a science magnet school.

As for the ghetto you must be thinking of the Bedford/Stuyvesant neighborhood. I haven’t been to NYC but I’ve heard its an area where you have to watch your step.  
Of course I understand in the old days it was muggers you had to be afraid of, now it’s the police.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-names-plus-a-ship/22527/22 "2000-06-18T18:42:42Z")

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Just to complete the hijack, there is a Stuyvesanttown in Manhattan, a subsidized housing complex for low-to-middle income folks (and, unfortunately, some people who are willing to lie about their income to get into a pretty good complex with cheap rents).

Yea, Peter S. and his clan got around.

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**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-names-plus-a-ship/22527/23 "2000-06-19T00:34:56Z")

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**BobT** , I think you’re right about The Hague. One thing to point out is, the full name of The Hague, in Dutch, is _'s Gravenhage_ (my atlas renders it _'s-Gravenhage_). But I think this usage is rare; a friend of mine lived in The Hague for a year and had never heard of it. The common usage is _Den Hage_ or _Den Haag_ (I can’t remember which one is the correct spelling.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/place-names-plus-a-ship/22527/24 "2000-06-19T04:27:03Z")

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> The common usage is _Den Hage_ or _Den Haag_ (I can’t remember which one is the correct spelling.

Den Haag is correct. Believe it or not, it means “the hedge”.

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