New Amsterdam History Center is in the News

 

Fall/Winter 2024 – 2025


Russell Shorto returns to fascinating history of a unique city in Taking Manhattan, a book showing how New Amsterdam became New York

‘New York plows ahead’: how the English invaded and changed a city

 

April 2025


article in OUR TOWN:

Inside one of the city’s greatest edifices, a new exhibit brings excitement and edification to the people—and it’s free too!

New Visions of Old New York Exhibit Brings Thrill of History to Hall of Records Building

 

New York 

400 years of NYC: New exhibit brings visitors back to New Amsterdam

Brooklyn’s Map Explained with Daniel Steiner

Brooklyn Map Explained (video) – features Toya Dubin of NAHC’s Mapping New York Project

 

Summer 2024



RTL.nl – June 9, 2024

New York was founded by the Dutch exactly 400 years ago  (In Dutch and English)

Fire Island and Great South Bay News –  

History: Recreating The Wreck of Prince Maurice

New York Almanack – June 12, 2024

A 3d Map of New Amsterdam in 1660

New York Times – June 13, 2024

A Royal Visit to the City That Was Once Called New Amsterdam

Grondahl: New York exhibit eye-opening window into Dutch colony – June26, 2024

A visit to the exhibit: “New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam.”

Al Jazeera English,  ‘New York before New York’ exhibit: Dutch settlers influenced the creation of Manhattan,   July 14, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqNXmp6CQzk

 

Spring 2024



West Side Rag

Tolerance and Capitalism; Slavery and Swindle: the Mixed Legacy of the Dutch in New Amsterdam

The Bowery Boys

Visit the Exhibit at New-York Historical Society – New York Before New York

Untapped New York

 New York Before New York Guided Tour at NYHS 

New-York Historical Society

New York Before New York

Atlas Obscura – March 19, 2024

This New York City Map is Full of Dutch Secrets

New York Almanack – April 25, 2024

The 1657 Wreck of the Dutch Ship The Prince Maurice

Shelter Island Reporter – May 28, 2024

A Story of a Shipwreck and Salvation: Shelter Island History Center offers a window to the past