Many of the earliest laws in New York City—back when it was New Amsterdam, in the Dutch colony ... as a window in the city founded in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company.

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 Manhattan in 1624. Dutch ...

By 1624, Dutch people were living on Manhatta—eventually renamed Manhattan—in a settlement called New Amsterdam. The Dutch West India Company’s charter enabled its members to make contracts ...

settling along the Hudson River in 1624. They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York ...

The violent history of the Dutch colony that is now New York is not well known in the Netherlands. The curators of a new exhibition want to change that. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam In ...

Most historians agree that 1624 is the city’s actual 400th ... That’s the year New Amsterdam was renamed New York City. But in 1974, City Council President Paul O’Dwyer proposed changing ...