B efore 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 ...

A depiction of 17th-century life in New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement on the island of Manhattan that eventually became New York City. While legends about the purchase of the island abound ...

AMSTERDAM — The city has authorized a $685,000 settlement of a federal lawsuit filed by a man who alleged police used excessive force and caused him permanent partial disability while responding ...

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit alleging race discrimination and retaliation, among other complaints, filed by former city police officer Alan Drake against Amsterdam, the police union ...

Two motorcyclists died on Sunday night in a road accident near the New Amsterdam Public Hospital in Region Six (East ...

In the 1600s, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam was situated on what is now the southern tip of Manhattan, the present location of the Financial District.Credit...George Etheredge for The New ...

Russell Shorto’s revelatory chronicle of life in New Amsterdam. Shorto, who is also the show’s curator, argues in the book that the Dutch settlement contained the seeds of New York in its ...

It's all part of "Founded By NYC," the city's yearlong commemoration of the founding of the Dutch settlement in 1625. New Amsterdam had a diverse population, just like present-day New York City.

The intention of the Amsterdam Museum, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York, was to mark the 400th year after Dutch settlers established a colony at the mouth of the Hudson ...