In “Taking Manhattan,” author Russell Shorto writes about the deal that New Netherland Director General Peter Stuyvesant made with English military officer Richard Nicolls to transfer the Dutch colony ...
One of the most influential Black newspapers in the city, the New York Amsterdam News, is undergoing a transformation, turning its historic newsroom into a museum. The paper was founded in 1909, ...
Excerpted from Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. Copyright (c) 2025 by Russell Shorto. Used with permission of the ...
Walk lower Manhattan’s original coastline See the remains of Manhattan’s first City Hall Discover the original Dutch fort, windmill, and battery Trace the streets of Manhattan in 1667 with Manhattan’s ...
For over 100 years, the New Amsterdam Musical Association has maintained the same modest facade on 107 W. 130th St. in Harlem. Today, the association’s brownstone—originally purchased in 1922—hosts a ...
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