Dutch traders had visited the area of North America that is now New York in the early 17th century, but it was not until 1624 that colonists arrived for permanent settlement. By 1660, the colony ...

In preparation for next year’s 400th anniversary of the Dutch colony, I’m hitting the streets as I put together a walking tour that will tell a complex story of New York’s beginnings.

While the Dutch grid itself has remained largely as it was in the 17th century, when the British took control of New Amsterdam in 1664 and changed the colony’s name to New York – in honor of ...

after its Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, surrendered the multicultural colony a month later, it was renamed New York. In the meantime, the Dutch and English were grappling for power elsewhere ...

The European settlement of what would become New York was led by the Dutch, settling along the Hudson River in 1624. They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan.

This spring is the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York — or, to be precise, of the Dutch colony that became New York once the English took it over. It’s a noteworthy milestone.

Dutch settlers came to the metropolitan area in the early 1600s and began living in the colony of New Netherland, which covered parts New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, according to History.com.

In 1664 the English seized New Netherland, including the town of New Amsterdam. They renamed the colony New York. At the time there were roughly 500 Dutch-speaking blacks in the colony.

Rijksmuseum via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 DEED Before New York was New York ... As Birgitta Tazelaar, the Dutch ambassador to the United States, said in March, colonial history is often ...

“I am honored to continue Charly’s work making Dutch colonial documents accessible ... He left to become director of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany and ...