Original sentence: Originally the name Bloomingdale (from the Dutch "Bloemendaal"), or the Bloomingdale District, applied to the west side of Manhattan from about 23rd Street up to the Hollow Way (modern 125th Street), and 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 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
Edited sentence: A combination of the stream valleys, such as that in which 96th Street runs, and wetlands to the northeast and east, may have provided a portion of the Upper West Side from the Lenape's controlled burns.The Dutch applied the name Bloomingdale (from the Dutch "Bloemendaal"), 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 long high bluff above useful sandy coves along the North River was little used or traversed by the Lenape people.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