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Gansevoort

American  
[ganz-vawrt, -vohrt] / ˈgænz vɔrt, -voʊrt /

noun

  1. Peter, 1749–1812, U.S. general: soldier in the American Revolutionary War.


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The Gansevoort Peninsula presented a unique opportunity: It’s a landfill, not a pier supported by piles, as all the other structures are.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2023

Gansevoort Peninsula, a 5.5-acre park between Gansevoort Street and Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District, opened last month.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2023

Myrlande Constant at Fort Gansevoort gallery in Manhattan in front of one her intricate tapestries.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

“Herman & Augusta improve apace as to growing & talking,” their mother, Maria Gansevoort Melvill, wrote to her brother in 1824.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

The post was held by General Gansevoort with some seven hundred and fifty men.

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by Valentine, A. C.