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.

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.

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 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.

The intention of the Amsterdam Museum, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York, was to mark the 400th year after Dutch settlers established a colony at the mouth of the Hudson ...

Leading the antisemitic discrimination against the Jews in New Amsterdam was Stuyvesant, who was strongly committed to the supremacy of the Dutch Reformed Church, determined to promote morality ...

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 ...