Before New York was New York, 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 ...

Later, the Dutch West India Company, founded in 1621, established its first settlement on Governors Island in 1624, and made its colony of New Amsterdam on the tip of Manahahtáanung, what is now ...

Most historians agree that 1624 is the city’s actual 400th, despite a 1974 decision by the then-city council. ... That’s the year New Amsterdam was renamed New York City.

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. When ...

The company established New Netherland in 1621, extending Dutch rule across the Hudson River region. By 1624, Dutch people were living on Manhatta—eventually renamed Manhattan—in a settlement ...

In 1624, Dutch settlers arrived in Manhattan. ... New Amsterdam was a Dutch settlement until it was conquered by the British and renamed New York in 1664. Laurens Block, public ...