Long Island and Rhode Island. In 1609, the English navigator Henry Hudson explored the harbor and purportedly landed at Coney Island. Adriaen Block followed in 1615 and is credited as the first European to determine that both Manhattan and Long Island are islands. Native American land deeds recorded by the Dutch from 1636 state that the Indians referred to Long Island as "Sewanhaka" ("Sewanhacky" and "Sewanhacking" were other spellings in the transliteration of Lenape). "Sewan" was one of the terms for wampum (commemorative stringed shell beads, for a while also used as currency by colonists in trades with the Lenape), and is
Woody Allen (album) as a Comedy Spotlight in their July 25, 1964 issue and wrote that "He is a very funny fellow. The material is uniformly hilarious throughout the album. Of course Allen's delivery is polished to a point whereby the nation's No 1. comedian". Woody Allen (album) Woody Allen is a live 1965 comedy album by the American comedian Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago. It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen, the three albums were issued in a 2014 boxset, "The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968". It was nominated