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Learn about New York City’s colonial Dutch heritage by taking a virtual tour of the Nieuw Amsterdam Trail though lower Manhattan.

By Bill Coughlin, November 4, 2009

Marker on the Nieuw Amsterdam Trail

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1 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Fort Amsterdam — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

INTRODUCTION In September 1609, Henry Hudson and some 20 seamen sailed their ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon), into what is today New York harbor. The Dutch East India Company expected Hudson to find a passage to Asia. Instead, his . . . — — Map (db m127314) HM

2 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Beaver’s Path — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

BEAVER’S PATH Location: Battery Place at Greenwich Street Dutch Name: Bever Straet Here, on a sandyshore, Lenape Indians beached their canoes to trade beaver and otter pelts for Dutch cloth, kettles, and metal tools. To the Lenape, . . . — — Map (db m127312) HM

3 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Petrus Stuyvesant’s Great House — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

PETRUS STUYVESANT'S GREAT HOUSE Location: Whitehall Street between Pearl & State Streets Dutch Name: Opt Waeter Near this site stood the “Great House” of Petrus Stuyvesant (c. 1612-1672), Nieuw Nederland’s last director. A . . . — — Map (db m127311) HM

4 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Stadt Huys (City Hall) — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

STADT HUYS (CITY HALL) Location: Broad Street & Coenties Alley Dutch Name: Langs Straet (Along the Shore) New York’s first city government began meeting across the street in 1653, after the Dutch West India Company agreed to grant . . . — — Map (db m127523) HM

5 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Asser Levy’s Home — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

ASSER LEVY’S HOME Location: Stone Street at Mill Lane Dutch Name: Hoogh Straet (High Street) In a house on this site lived the Jewish trader and butcher Asser Levy. Possibly born in Lithuania, Levy probably came here from Amsterdam in . . . — — Map (db m127960) HM

6 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Adriaen van der Donck’s Home — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

ADRIAEN VAN DER DONCK’S HOME Location: Marketfield Street at Broad Street Dutch Name: Het Marckvelt Steegie In a house that stood a few feet from here lived lawyer Adriaen van der Donck (c. 1620 - c. 1655), author of the . . . — — Map (db m127313) HM

7 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Lord’s Canal — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

LORDS’ CANAL Location: Broad Street Dutch Name: Heere Gracht Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant had workmen create the Gracht, or Canal, here on the site of a small creek during the 1650s. The canal stretched from near today’s Exchange . . . — — Map (db m127521) HM

8 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Andries Rees’s Tavern — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

ANDRIES REES’S TAVERN Location: William Street and Wall Street Dutch Name: Smit Straet Here, in 1660, Andries Rees ran a tavern serving his fellow colonists. Taverns were lively centers of social life in the Netherlands, and Dutch . . . — — Map (db m127522) HM

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9 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — The Wall — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

THE WALL Location: Wall Street Dutch Name: Langs de Wal Here, in 1653, Nieuw Amsterdam’s settlers built a wall running from the Hudson River to the East River to defend their town against attack. They feared invasion by England and her New . . . — — Map (db m125840) HM

10 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Financial District — Stream for Washing Laundry — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

STREAM FOR WASHING LAUNDRY Location: Maiden Lane Dutch Name: ‘t Maagde Paatje Here, in the 1600’s, a stream ran into the East River, along the course of what is now Maiden Lane. A footpath brought Dutch “maidens” to wash . . . — — Map (db m127519) HM

11 ► New York, New York County, Manhattan, Civic Center — Windmill — Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York — Reported permanently removed

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