Or should the birthday be dated to 1624, when a small number of Dutch landed to establish New Amsterdam, a company town for frontier fur trade? Or maybe 1626, when a Dutchman "bought" Manhattan ...

given how 1624 was the year the city was founded as New Amsterdam. Two years later, Andriesse and his family fled the Netherlands to escape the Nazis, and settled in New York in 1941. There he ...