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 ...

The wall was built neither in 1625 nor in the 1640s, but in 1653, the year New Amsterdam, a Dutch settlement comprising the southern tip of Manhattan Island, was formally chartered as a city.

New Amsterdam was renamed centuries ago, and the hills and copses once known as New Netherland ... Yet, remarkable traces of their settlement have survived, often in the most surprising places.

European settlement on Manhattan coincided with the Dutch Golden Age, ... New Amsterdam was a tiny place; the wall that gave its name to Wall Street marked the town’s northern border.

New Online Archive Shows Colonial New York Was Rowdy, Filthy, Smelly. Early manuscripts newly posted online depict New Amsterdam as an intoxicated Dutch settlement and show its leader, Peter ...

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.

New Amsterdam was controlled by the Dutch from 1624 to 1664. Skip to main content. ... Happy 400th Birthday to New Amsterdam, the Dutch Settlement That Became New York. May 3, 2024.

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 ...

Running the fledgling city of New Amsterdam was a rough business. Its inhabitants were inclined to cheating and drunkenness. Pigs and goats ran loose and trampled the walls of the settlement’s ...

Hiking north from New Amsterdam up the length of Manhattan, a traveler would have encountered the landscapes that predated Tribeca and Times Square: thick woods and bird-filled meadows.

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 ...