page_title: List of New Netherland placename etymologies
section_title: Cromakill
hierarchical_section_title: List of New Netherland placename etymologies / C / Cromakill
caption_attribution_description: English: Kill Van Kull in New York Harbor in the United States Based on original public domain image courtesy of NASA (TERRA satellite) © 2004 Matthew Trump
context_page_description: Nieuw-Nederland, or New Netherland, was the seventeenth-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod. Settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and southwestern Connecticut. There were small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Its capital, New Amsterdam, was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on the Upper New York Bay. The most developed part of the province roughly corresponds to today's Greater New York Metro Area.
context_section_description: Likely from kromme kille meaning crooked creek, border between Secaucus and North Bergen. Similar to evolution of
  Gramercy, which is a corruption of the krom mesje, or little crooked knife, the name of a small brook that flowed along what is now 21st Street in Manhattan.
caption: Kill Van Kull connects Newark Bay with Upper New York Bay
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