New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

May 17, 2024 Lauren Comiteau Art from Patricia Kaersenhout and Leonard Harmon's "A Phantasmagorical Manhatta Island." Photo: Lauren Comiteau While for many, 400 years of connection between Old ...

Police have detained dozens of people for taking part in a demonstration in central Amsterdam that had been outlawed ...

They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies.

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AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The city of Amsterdam has a new space for people to enjoy the outdoors. The city unveiled a new ...

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“My family, my parents, my ancestors, all come from Suriname in South America, a former Dutch colony,” she ... with Black ...

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The Dutch were the first to discover New York and named it New Amsterdam after the Netherlands ... with the first colony established in the eighth century BC. That colony was known as Parthenope ...

There’s a new greenspace in downtown Amsterdam: The Chuctanunda Trail Park. Democratic Mayor Michael Cinquanti hopes the ...