How did hungry hollow road in chestnut ridge new york get its name?

Answer 1

I grew up about a mile from Hungry Hollow Road and I remember hearing someone -- it could have been a member of the local Audubon Society or maybe it was the naturalist at Lakeside School, I forget exactly who it was -- explain to me that the name came to be when the English settlers arrived and found the Dutch settlers already calling the road by a name that sounded like "hungry hollow" in English. The Dutch, my informant told me, had adopted their name from the local Native Americans -- I suppose they were the Munsee clan of the Lenni Lenapi -- who called it by a similar-sounding name. In the Indians' language, it meant "meeting place" or "place of gathering."