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from The American HeritageÂ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. A section of New York City in northern Manhattan bordering on the Harlem and East rivers. Peter Stuyvesant established the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Haarlem here in 1658. A rapid influx of African Americans beginning c. 1910 made it one of the largest Black communities in the United States.
New York There was a Dutch influence on early Hoffmans who settled here. Martin Hermanzen Hoffman arrived in Dutch New York from Estonia in 1657. His descendants settled in Ulster county. Johannes Huffman came in the 1720's and his family later moved to a Dutch area of New Jersey. There was also a Hoffman line in Dutchess county, New York descended from a Conrad Hoffman who had arrived there in the 1720's from German Westphalia.