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The Dutch applied the name Bloemendaal, Anglicized to " Bloomingdale " or " the Bloomingdale District ", to the west side of Manhattan from about 23rd Street up to the Hollow Way ( modern 125th Street ), and by the 18th century it contained numerous farms and country residences of many of the city's well-off, a major parcel of which was the Apthorp Farm.

The main artery of this area was the Bloomingdale Road, which began north of where Broadway and the Bowery Lane ( now Fourth Avenue ) join ( at modern Union Square ) and wended its way northward up to about modern 116th Street in Morningside Heights, where the road further north was known as the Kingsbridge Road.

Within the confines of the modern-day Upper West Side, the road passed through areas known as Harsenville, Strycker's Bay, and Bloomingdale Village.