But that hasn’t always been the case. The Dutch first set foot on modern-day New York 400 years ago with a mandate from the Dutch West India Company to establish the colony of New Netherlands at the ...

Battery Park is where the history of New York City began. The area’s strategic location was recognized by Native Americans and Dutch settlers, who called it Capske Hook (from Kapsee, an Indian term ...

In 1621, the States General of the Netherlands established the Dutch West India Company. Around this time ... which has been extended repeatedly over the past three centuries. New Amsterdam was ...

Tracing its origins to 1628, the school was established by the Dutch West India Company and the Classis ... the youth be well taught and brought up." As New York City expanded to the north ...