ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands are visiting New York City and the New York State Capital on Wednesday and Thursday, June 12 and June 13. According ...
Read Part 2 of this story. Many of my stories about the people, places and architecture of Brooklyn have a Dutch theme. That’s because the Dutch played such a vital role in the history of Brooklyn, ...
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NEW YORK — New York City is constantly being rebuilt, paved over and reinvented, so it's not easy to find remnants of the colony of New Amsterdam 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the river that ...
April showers… bring 200,000 flowers? A temporary field of flowers will be installed in Union Square on “Tulip Day” Sunday — to mark the 400th anniversary of Dutch settlers arriving in New York. While ...
Historians contend that Dutch settlers began the process of establishing New Amsterdam, the town that would eventually become New York City, at some point in 1624. Dutch government officials joined ...
The painting known as "Seated Merchant Wearing a Falling Lace Collar" holds lots of clues. Elizabeth Skrabonja, curator of exhibitions at Orangetown Historical Museum & Archives, hopes to unlock the ...
Historian Barry Lewis takes us back in time to rediscover the first European settlers in New York — the Dutch. The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of explorer Henry Hudson’s voyage to New York ...
The 1665 painting ‘View at New Amsterdam,’ by Johannes Vingboons, is seen in this image released by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. The Netherlands’ national museum put some of the most important documents ...
The Shagen letter that describes the sale of the island of Manhattan from the Dutch by the Lenape people in 1626 for 60 guilders, about $24, which today's Lenape leaders dispute. Robert Caro's Smith ...
If there’s any bread other than sourdough that epitomizes the Bay Area, it’s Dutch crunch. For the uninitiated, the dense, white sandwich roll is caked in rice flour, which transforms its crusty top ...