https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 25 Dec 2015 01:00:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/407 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:38:01 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=407 The Royal Governors of the Province of New York, the men who ruled here in the names of Britain's kings and queens before the Revolutionary War, are forgotten. Place-names recall some. Fort Tryon Park bears the last royal governor's name. Staten Island's Dongan Hills commemorates Col. Thomas Dongan]]>