Few cities carry a name as widely recognised as New York. It appears in films, literature, finance, politics and popular ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. Jan 30, 2024, 11:24pm EST Jan 31, 2024, 09:19am EST This ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is written in English, not Dutch, because of what happened this month 360 years ago. In June 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law as New York, and it has remained that ...

Just days before Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election, voters in the Netherlands put a Dutch politician named Rob Jetten in position to form a government and become their ...

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, ...