Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
But the situation of this station lacked the necessary shelter required for winter occupancy, and it was more likely a place of landing and trade, or perhaps a fishing-place. The broad tract of level land on which this station was situated, extending north of the waters of Rechewanis and lying east of the Indian trail, between 108th street and 123d street, was known to the natives as "Conykeekst."11 The queer name may have been more correctly Quinnikeek.
As in other situations, the name was probably applied equally to the local settlement (98) and to its vicinity. The tract was waterless, save for one small INDIAN PATHS brook which flowed diagonally northeastward from a source at 114th street near Second avenue, and reached Harlem river at 123d street near Avenue A, or Pleasant avenue, passing within about three hundred feet of the place at which the native objects were found, as above described.