Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam: a Dutch settlement named for the canal-filled city back home. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the settlement, which was established in ...

It's all part of "Founded By NYC," the city's yearlong commemoration of the founding of the Dutch settlement in 1625. New Amsterdam had a diverse population, just like present-day New York City.

While the West India Company’s records of the colony of New Netherland are relatively plentiful after 1638, the unique, ...

A depiction of 17th-century life in New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement on the island of Manhattan that eventually became New York City. While legends about the purchase of the island abound, the ...

In the 1600s, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was situated on what is now the southern tip of Manhattan, the present location of the Financial District.

In its exhibition devoted to the Castello Plan, one of the earliest maps of New Amsterdam, the New-York Historical Society shows us a 400-year-old city that remains, if faintly, recognizable.

New Amsterdam was a Dutch settlement until it was conquered by the British and renamed New York in 1664. Laurens Block, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. In 1609, the ...