New Amsterdam is now known as ... New York City.
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A good example is the New Amsterdam, built in 254.
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" For the record, Mr. Shorto wrote, Stuyvesant was not "governor of New Amsterdam.
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Like "Grey's," the series "New Amsterdam" features doctors who care about every patient.
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Kim had been cast in a recurring role "New Amsterdam" earlier this month.
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Religious bigotry in New Amsterdam was tied to a fear of the other.
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Aladdin opened at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on March 20, 2014 to critical acclaim.
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Blumberg reminded me that New York was once New Amsterdam, named for the Dutch
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"New Amsterdam" star Janet Montgomery revealed the birth of her child in early March.
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It was my little homage to what Herts & Tallant did at the New Amsterdam.
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To boost churchgoing, the otherwise indifferent Dutch burgomasters followed suit in New Amsterdam in 1656.
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JOSHUA BARONE "Siren Islands" (New Amsterdam) This spellbinding album may seem like companionable background music.
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Or try the Electric Eye (New Amsterdam gin, Aperol, Lillet Blanc, orange bitters, orange, $9).
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Inside are many of the city's oldest government documents on slavery and on New Amsterdam.
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On a cool, sunny Sunday, we met outside the New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street.
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On a cool, sunny Sunday, we met outside the New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street.
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Sure enough, we make it to the entrance of the New Amsterdam Theatre in 15 minutes.
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Also inspired by a podcast, Barstool launched a line of vodka with New Amsterdam in September.
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Disney shareholders will simultaneously vote on the plan 12 blocks away at the New Amsterdam Theater.
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Peter was the governor of New Amsterdam — later to be renamed New York City — beginning in 1647.
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Ryan Eggold, the star of NBC's medical drama New Amsterdam, knows the medical benefits of puppy love.
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Any reasonably competent hospital drama can tell heartwarming and heartbreaking stories, and "New Amsterdam" is very competent.
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I am exhausted tonight, but we watch the newest episode of New Amsterdam before hitting the hay.
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When Anthony refused to back down, he and Grietje were ordered to leave New Amsterdam for good.
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NBC's new medical drama "New Amsterdam," follows Dr. Max Goodwin as he tries to revamp a fictitious hospital.
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Read on for thoughts on CBS's FBI, NBC's New Amsterdam, FX's Mr. Inbetween, and ABC's A Million Little Things.
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One, a mother of a first grader, said that her choice had never been an issue at New Amsterdam.
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The English won the power struggle when they took over in 1664, rechristening New Amsterdam as New York City.
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Though the Dutch colony in New Amsterdam, now New York, became a significant haven, its embrace of Jews was stinting.
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New Amsterdam was founded as a Dutch settlement, and served as a seat of government for the New Netherland colony.
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By the mid-1990s, Disney Theatrical Productions had signed a lease for the storied New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street.
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"New Amsterdam" is a 20-plus episode per season type of show, so there's likely time to work in both.
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CBOE will offer trading in shares from all EU countries, apart from Britain, on its new Amsterdam platform on Oct.
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Fifteen years ago I wrote "The Island at the Center of the World," about the Dutch founding of New Amsterdam.
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At the core are tales that we've already told before — the history of New Amsterdam, the Triangle Factory Fire, Times Square.
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This story has been corrected to show the name of the town where some victims lived is Amsterdam, not New Amsterdam.
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The street started out humbly in the early 2264th century as a muddy path in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
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Like Watson, Smith is an actor, most recently making cameos in NBC's New Amsterdam, CBS' NCIS: New Orleans and Blue Bloods.
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New York, New Amsterdam "We're not Amsterdam" is something people like me who work for better streets in America sometimes hear.
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In addition to NBC's "New Amsterdam," ABC has two medical shows, "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Good Doctor," among the ratings leaders.
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I then settle in on the couch to watch my shows — This is Us, New Amsterdam, Dating No Filter, and Ghosted.
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In the early 1600s, the Dutch founded a colony called New Netherland, with its capital of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
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A 17th-century wine bottle, unearthed at Stadt Huys in New Amsterdam, still gleamed with iridescent hues in its layered glass.
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In Amsterdam the voices of the National Opera were fortified by two other choirs, Capella Amsterdam and the New Amsterdam Youth Choir.
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The British actress, who currently stars in NBC's New Amsterdam, and boyfriend Joe Fox are expecting their first child in late winter.
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On Thursday, actor Daniel Dae Kim, who had just scored a recurring role on "New Amsterdam," announced he'd been diagnosed with coronavirus.
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The New Amsterdam scene was meant to honor his Dutch ancestry, although Mr. Roosevelt was not a direct descendant of Stuyvesant himself.
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He had a number of run-ins with Peter Stuyvesant, the peg-legged, autocratic governor of New Amsterdam, who abhorred religious liberty.
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That was a priority, thanks to the compelling lead single from her next album, "Alula," which is forthcoming from New Amsterdam Records.
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MarketAxess's new Amsterdam hub is still due to go live on Monday to trade the same range of fixed income products in London.
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Mediaset announced in June a corporate overhaul under which the company and its Spanish subsidiary would merge into a new Amsterdam-based holding.
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Along with boyfriend Joe Fox, the New Amsterdam star and This Is Us alum welcomed daughter Sunday Juno Fox on Friday, March 1.
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Bookshelf Within a few decades of founding New Amsterdam, the Dutch built a wall, first to keep out the Indians, then the British.
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Well, at a concert on Wednesday night, Clara Longstreth concluded her 22th season as music director of the 4003-member New Amsterdam Singers.
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New Amsterdam Records is getting serious about the albums it is offering to fans who "subscribe" to the label, by way of Bandcamp.
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On Friday, a representative from NBC told Mashable that New Amsterdam will donate its equipment to the New York State Department of Health.
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Among ABC's other Tuesday premieres was Nathan Fillion's promising drama The Rookie (5.4 million, 1.0 rating) which came in second to NBC's New Amsterdam.
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"What critics said: "Addressing medicine's many ills requires acknowledging their complexity; 'New Amsterdam' does the opposite, leaving only frustration and fear in its wake.
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"What critics said: "Addressing medicine's many ills requires acknowledging their complexity; New Amsterdam does the opposite, leaving only frustration and fear in its wake.
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It gave 1624 as the year the Dutch arrived there and referred to 1664 as the year that New Amsterdam came under British control.
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The Dutch were known for tolerance — or indifference — to most immigrants to New Amsterdam who didn't jeopardize the Dutch West India Company's commercial agenda.
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In the 17th century, New York was a Dutch settlement known as New Amsterdam, and the currency of choice was the leeuwendaler, or lion dollar.
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They go there to set up a trading post, and in that year, 1625, they get a city charter establishing the city of New Amsterdam.
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It deals with some of the same dynamics that drive "New Amsterdam," particularly the tension between the business of medicine and the practice of it.
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On a cool, sunny Sunday, we met outside the New Amsterdam Theater on 21918nd Street, keeping the prescribed distance from everyone else and each other.
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KLM's new Amsterdam Schiphol lounge features a sunset light wall designed to simulate the Dutch sky and help travelers adjust to the local time zone.
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There have been horse racing locations in the New York City area since 1665, a year after the English took New Amsterdam from the Dutch.
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Montgomery, who plays Dr. Lauren Bloom on NBC's medical drama New Amsterdam, has been dating Fox, a creative director and copywriter, for over two years.
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NBC's newest medical drama New Amsterdam airs Tuesdays at 10PM ET. PEOPLE Now airs live, Monday through Friday, from the Meredith offices in New York City.
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The row threatens to disrupt Mediaset's planned corporate overhaul under which the company and its Spanish subsidiary plan to merge into a new Amsterdam-based holding.
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" Thomas was a one-time Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl whose ghost is said to haunt the New Amsterdam Theatre, current home of the Broadway musical "Aladdin.
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So after a quick walking tour of what had been New Amsterdam, from Battery Park to Wall Street, I got in my car and headed north.
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Two major New York performance spaces, Carnegie Hall on West 2000th Street and the New Amsterdam Theater on West 215nd Street, were renovated by Mr. Tishman's company.
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Peter Stuyvesant was the leader of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam before it became New York, and huge swaths of the city still bear his name.
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The company says that more than 400 people will work at its new Amsterdam customer service hub by the end of 2018, serving 11 countries in Europe.
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Two major New York performance spaces, Carnegie Hall on West 2000th Street and the New Amsterdam Theater on West 215nd Street, were renovated by Mr. Tishman's company.
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He decided to go with the date on the city seal, 19593, not 1664, when the British ousted the Dutch and rechristened New Amsterdam as New York.
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I kept watching New Amsterdam, NBC's new medical drama set in a public hospital that doesn't turn away patients, thinking I had seen much of it before.
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Shortly after the episode was shot, multiple members of the New Amsterdam team — including guest star Daniel Dae Kim — tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Deadline.
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"If you take the Beachbody model, there is probably a good analogy to Netflix," noted Seth Shapiro, a digital media analyst and principal at New Amsterdam Media LLC.
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First impression based on the trailer (embedded below) Those of us who are suckers for emotionally manipulative medical shows (slowly raises hand) might have something in New Amsterdam.
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Marlon Ross, an English professor at the University of Virginia, has his eye on black newspapers of the era including The Chicago Defender and The New Amsterdam News.
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Guests will be able to escape the summer heat with refreshments and snacks provided by our friends at Almond, Aquafina Sparkling, Brooklyn Brewery, GuS and New Amsterdam Vodka.
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Teddy Roosevelt was born to a prominent and wealthy New York city family that traced its roots to one of the earliest 17th-century settlers of New Amsterdam.
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The book makes the case that New York, previously New Amsterdam, owes a lot of its current form to the Dutch and to the city of Amsterdam itself.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The earliest known map of New Amsterdam — what's now New York City — was made in 249 by Dutch surveyor general Jacques Cortelyou.
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It's not that we've never seen people or tropes like this in a medical drama before — it's that New Amsterdam has built itself so well that it doesn't matter.
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In modern times, some credit for the doughnut goes to Anna Joralemon, who started selling Dutch "olykoek" (oil cake) in 1673 from a shop in New Amsterdam, today's Manhattan.
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The New York Philharmonic will offer its audiences a taste of new Amsterdam when the Dutch maestro Jaap van Zweden becomes its music director in the 2018-19 season.
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Vivendi could be excluded from voting at shareholder meetings of a new Amsterdam-based TV company the Italian broadcaster is establishing, according to a bylaw of the new holding.
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Perhaps when this episode of New Amsterdam airs, people will be able to look back on it with a different perspective than they would during a real global pandemic.
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"Will the ladies rebel, as the ladies of New Amsterdam did when Peter Stuyvesant ordered them to wear broad flounces?" one New York Times article asked in January 1908.
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Anthony Jansen van Salee, better known as "Anthony the Turk," was one of the most colorful characters in New Amsterdam, the Dutch colony that later became New York City.
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"They were a group of Belgian Huguenot families who joined the Dutch in 1624 on the ship New Netherland to colonize New Amsterdam," which is now Manhattan, he said.
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Dutch regulatory approval is imminent for trading in euro government bond and repurchase agreements at U.S. exchange CME's new Amsterdam hub to begin on March 18, the company said.
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We ran into Dr. Max Goodwin from "New Amsterdam" Monday on the streets of NYC and asked if the potentially deadly disease is in the running for a future episode.
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Frederic Da Silva Solis Nathan was born on June 24, 1922, in Far Rockaway, Queens, to descendants of Sephardic Jews who settled in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century.
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As the New Amsterdam was being reconstructed in the mid-1990s, a plumber discovered a light fixture in the form of a woman's head behind a gap in the wall.
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If there's going to be something different about New Amsterdam, it will be thanks to the show's central two characters, Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) and Dr. Hana Sharpe (Freema Agyeman).
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New Netherland — with its capital of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island — was a Dutch settlement, but it was a mix of peoples, thanks to the diversity in the Dutch Republic itself.
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Two customers smoke weed with a bong at the New Amsterdam Cafe in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 20, 2018Photo: GettyOn October 17th, recreational use of marijuana will be legal in Canada.
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The best part of New Amsterdam may be that its first episode establishes just how character-driven it intends to be, while actually following through by breathing believable life into those characters.
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Making his debut for Ajax in 1964 at the age of 16, Cruyff fast became an influential figure at the club, which in many ways became the face of the new Amsterdam.
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As my colleague Ana Fota wrote, a diorama there depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, a Native American tribe inhabiting New Amsterdam (now New York City).
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New Amsterdam Records and the downtown space Le Poisson Rouge celebrated their mutual 10-year anniversaries in tandem this week, with two nights of concerts built from the label's wide-ranging roster.
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Released in August on New Amsterdam Records, the project arrives at Merkin Hall in Manhattan on Saturday, as part of the Ecstatic Music series, with Joachim joined by the intrepid Spektral Quartet.
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In more fringe circles in the area, voters have called for New York to divide into two autonomous regions, with the Southern Tier breaking off into a new state called New Amsterdam.
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Mr. Kim, 51, said that he was in New York shooting "New Amsterdam," an NBC medical drama in which he plays a doctor during a pandemic, when the coronavirus outbreak halted the production.
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For NBC series New Amsterdam, however, a recent episode was just a little too relevant to the current coronavirus pandemic for NBC to feel it could responsibly be included in its current season.
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Her first screen appearance came in 2011 on NBC's Outsourced, making her the first South Asian transgender woman on TV. From there, she's appeared in shows like Difficult People, New Amsterdam, and High Maintenance.
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There will be other contests to scrutinize when Samira Wiley ("Handmaid&aposs Tale") and Ryan Eggold ("The Blacklist," upcoming "New Amsterdam") announce nominees for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards beginning at 11:163 a.m.
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NBC has already renewed Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Will & Grace, The Voice, Law & Order: SVU, Chicago Med, Chicago P.D. Chicago Fire, The Good Place, The Blacklist, Superstore, A.P. Bio, Good Girls, Manifest, and New Amsterdam.
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Streaming service Netflix says it will hire 400 staff for its new Amsterdam-based European customer service headquarters and plans to announce at least six new original European projects before the end of 2017.
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A depiction of an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an indigenous tribe in New Amsterdam, it has been criticized because it depicts not a cultural exchange but cultural hierarchy.
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"The place where live is going to be really important is when there is live interaction between the class members and the instructor," said Seth Shapiro, a media analyst and principal at New Amsterdam Media.
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For the first time since the city was called New Amsterdam, no one will put milk in packages within the city limits, "even if they were cans back when the Dutch were here," he said.
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Fast-forward three-plus centuries, and everyone who read their 4th-grade history homework knows that New Amsterdam was renamed New York, and you no longer have to go through Dutch traders to get nutmeg.
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This intergenerational celebration examines black life in New Amsterdam as well as in 19th-century black settlements like Seneca Village (in what is now Central Park) and Weeksville (in what is now Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn).
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There are exceptions, of course — NBC launched This Is Us in the fall and seems to be really into its (not that great) mystery drama Manifest and (perfectly adequate) medical drama New Amsterdam this year.
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On the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History, a diorama depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an Indigenous tribe inhabiting New Amsterdam, now New York City.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Mediaset hostile shareholder Vivendi could be excluded from voting at shareholder meetings of a new Amsterdam-based TV company the Italian broadcaster is setting up, according to a bylaw of the new holding.
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Her mother was a Broadway actress, Desirée Lazard who, while appearing in the George M. Cohan musical "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" at the New Amsterdam Theater in 1906, met her future husband, Harry Harris.
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Jordan Carrasquillo of New York, who runs a channel called New Amsterdam Vape with more than 69,000 subscribers, racked up more than 1.6 million views on a 2016 tutorial for beginners on making e-liquid.
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At Trinity Wall Street recently, the New Amsterdam Singers, an amateur chorus under the direction of Clara Longstreth, presented an intrepid revival of "Golgotha," with the baritone Tyler Duncan impeccable in the role of Jesus.
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The broker, which is awaiting approval from French regulators for its new Paris business, said it has created a new Amsterdam iSwap euro unit for trading interest rate derivatives electronically as part of its Brexit preparations.
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Goodwin is a no-nonsense reformer who takes over New Amsterdam Hospital and immediately starts ruffling feathers and making big changes — but he's also got a big secret, one he's only comfortable really sharing with Sharpe.
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A handful of parents outside New Amsterdam said they were surprised to learn the school's religious exemption rate for immunizations was 35 percent in the 2017-18 school year — higher than they thought it would be.
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Not surprisingly, many of Broadway's more familiar, and oldest, landmarks are concentrated in the miles that begin at the southern tip of Manhattan, Professor Leadon's Mile 1, where the Dutch settled New Amsterdam four centuries ago.
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For the first time since the city was called New Amsterdam, no one here will be packaging milk, "even if they were cans back when the Dutch were here," Henry Schwartz told The Times in August.
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But long before joining this elite crowd of Anglo-American abstract expressionists and modernist myth-makers, he was simply a boy from New Amsterdam, a coastal city located on the northeastern edge of Guyana in South America.
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It seemed strange that, out of the billions of word combinations possible in the English language, NBC's medical drama "New Amsterdam" chose the precise title used by another series, about an immortal police officer, a decade ago.
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On this particular morning, they were examining household tools, both contemporary items and ones that fulfilled similar functions in 17th-century New Amsterdam, and discussing what they revealed about the differences between everyday life then and now.
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D.A. "Orange"; Attacca Quartet (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch) This eye-opening album is an invitation to consider the familiar — whether it's the centuries-old form of the string quartet or, in the case of "Valencia," the everyday orange.
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The surprising villains in Silverman's study are the Dutch of New Amsterdam, who introduced firearms on a large scale to North America by selling them to the Iroquois of today's New York State in exchange for beaver pelts.
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Support for the ideals of diversity and tolerance on the one hand and fears of tribalism and social fragmentation on the other collide on almost every page, beginning in the chaotic, polyglot trading outpost that was New Amsterdam.
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On Thursday, a recital featuring the baritone Stephen Salters and the Taíno singer Irka Mateo brings to life the music of Native Americans, African slaves and Dutch immigrants that might have been heard on the streets of New Amsterdam.
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One floor up, there was a peek at the "Dutch kitchen," an ersatz fantasy of a colonial New Amsterdam tavern, built in the Grolier's previous quarters in the 8383s, when a fad for such interiors swept New York's clubs.
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"So many of us, including myself, take for granted the fact that we have food on our table at the end of the day and there are so many of us who don't," said New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold.
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The American new-music scene is now dotted with dozens of Bang on a Can alumni groups, among them New Amsterdam Records, the Ecstatic Music Festival, Mantra Percussion, Dither, Ekmeles and Hotel Elefant and another composers' collective, Sleeping Giant.
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" A series of grandiosely cheeky performances in various spaces in New York, and a recording released on New Amsterdam Records in 2010, were heralded for embodying an emergent genre-crossing scene widely known as "indie classical" or "alt-classical.
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ISTAT releases April foreign trade data (0800 GMT) Mediaset's hostile shareholder Vivendi could be excluded from voting at shareholder meetings of a new Amsterdam-based TV company the Italian broadcaster is setting up, according to a bylaw of the new holding.
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A. According to "Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names" by Sanna Feirstein (New York University Press, 2001), Isaac Vermeille was a Huguenot who, fleeing religious persecution, took his family to New Amsterdam from Leyden in 1663.
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It's no coincidence that a tiny crucifix on the proposed coat of arms for 1630 New Amsterdam is dwarfed by the oversized initials of the Dutch West India Company and no fewer than three large beavers — the company's stock in trade.
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I run to target and look for Deep Eddy Lemon (the only vodka I don't have to chase), but they don't have it so I settle for New Amsterdam Peach (at least I have lemonade at home to make it bearable).
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At the time, the area now known as Brooklyn — outside New Amsterdam, but claimed by the broader New Netherland colony — was the frontier, occupied by Native Americans and, near Wallabout Bay and a few other spots, a smattering of colonists.
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On July 3003, 1667, the Dutch and the English signed the Treaty of Breda, and the representatives from the Netherlands thought they'd made a pretty good deal, trading a colony called New Amsterdam for a tiny property called Run in the Banda Islands.
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On Monday afternoon at the New Amsterdam School, a small Waldorf school on Avenue B in the East Village, parents and children filed out of a gated walkway at dismissal past a hand-lettered chalkboard advertising an open house for fall enrollment.
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In 503, when Clara Longstreth led the New Amsterdam Singers in "Golgotha," the composer's Passion oratorio, at Trinity Church in New York, it was only the third performance here since the Dessoff Choirs gave the American premiere at Carnegie Hall in 1952.
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The worst kinds of tubs are the afterthoughts: No pasture to look at — just some peeling duct tape, an amenity that my grimy Brooklyn bathtub, installed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, sometime between the settling of New Amsterdam and World War II, already provides me.
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Heiskell began in 1990 with a mandate to revive the grandeur of the New Amsterdam, the Victory and other theaters with millions of dollars provided by the developers of office towers in Times Square, pledges made in exchange for big tax breaks.
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New Amsterdam Records recently released a recording of "Holographic"; the full multimedia presentation, which features a synchronized visual component designed by Daniel Schwarz, was performed for the first time on Thursday at the Baryshnikov Arts Center by the Holographic String Quartet and Mantra Percussion.
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The Rycken family—the wealthy, prominent Dutch clan that purchased and settled the island in the 183s, when New York was still New Amsterdam—were inextricably linked to a slave legacy the city has been shrugging off for centuries, particularly through its patriarch, Richard Riker.
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He describes himself as a Presbyterian, but Marble is not a Presbyterian church — it is part of the Reformed Church in America, a separate denomination that traces its beginnings to 1628 and the first ordained minister in New Amsterdam, as New York was then known.
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As it happens, there's a handy contrast, airing on PBS the same night "New Amsterdam" begins its rounds: "The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science," Ken Burns's two-hour history of the "secular temple" of medicine (in the interviewee Tom Brokaw's words) in Rochester, Minn.
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Robert G. Goelet, a civic leader, naturalist and philanthropist whose marriage merged two families that date to 17th-century New Amsterdam and made the couple stewards of Gardiners Island, a storied sanctuary off the tip of Long Island, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
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History may be written by the victors, but it took until about 1740, long after the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the English in 1664, for a British cartographer to honor the explorer, who was English by birth but had been hired by businessmen from the Netherlands.
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The story of Olive Thomas, a showgirl and movie actress who died mysteriously on a trip to Paris in 1920 with her actor husband, Jack Pickford, the play took its name from a late-night cabaret that Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ran on the roof of the New Amsterdam Theater.
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And though it's still a quasi-legal substance (to legally partake, you must join a private smoking club to purchase it), the country has been called the "New Amsterdam" by enthusiasts (who previously flocked to the Netherlands capital, which has made a tourist industry of legal marijuana since 1976).
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The museum is devoting its entire first floor to demonstrating how money, density, diversity and creativity have distinguished the city from other North American colonies since the earliest European settlers arrived four centuries ago and began what was then New Amsterdam as, in effect, a for-profit company.
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Many bartenders go on to become a general manager or open their own restaurant after working for a number of years, New Amsterdam"I make more money in less time than most college graduates, and [I have] needed years of training to become great at my work," Lechner said.
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Distinguished by a woolly ear-to-ear mustache that a walrus would envy, Mr. Gelber mentored a generation of future colleagues and conducted sightseeing tours both for tourists unacquainted with New York and for others savoring unfamiliar venues, like gospel choirs in Harlem or enduring remnants of Dutch New Amsterdam.
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But a difficult market for its SKYY vodka brand globally amid tough competition from New Amsterdam and Tito's brands in the United States, as well as weak demand in Russia for sparkling wines and Cinzano, meant its total sales rose just 2.2 percent in January-March, excluding forex swings and M&A activity.
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Against this backdrop, all would do well to pay heed to Abraham Lincoln's Electric Cord Speech of 1858 in which he simultaneously paid homage to America's Anglo-American populace and tradition, but also made clear that being American was not restricted to only those the descendants of the Bay Colony, Jamestown, and New Amsterdam.
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The goal of nursing the maps back to health is to make them a relevant, informative part of New York's DNA and to bring its history to life in a way that text-heavy records — like dense crime reports, handwritten government files or documents about New Amsterdam, penned in Dutch — might not be able to.
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NBC's "New Amsterdam" has also donated supplies of masks, gloves, gowns and other items to the New York State Department of Health "to be utilized on the basis of highest need in connection with relief efforts in New York to help the community in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis," according to a statement from the network.
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The legend of Sinterklaas was brought over by Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam colony in the 1600s, he said, and the figure was developed over centuries, partly by commercial interests, media portrayals and New Yorkers adopting the St. Nicholas figure to help rein in a once-raucous holiday and make it into a celebration characterized by domestic tranquillity.
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At his longtime home in Freeport, on Long Island, and later at his apartment in the East Village of Manhattan (across the street from land that was once the farm of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch director-general of New Netherland, which included New Amsterdam, the settlement that became New York City), he displayed excavated artifacts and the models of early ships that he made.
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The police cadets he had authorized would have hit the streets on his watch; crime might have really dropped, as it did under Mr. Giuliani, aided by the end of the crack epidemic; and the Walt Disney Company's restoration of the New Amsterdam Theater in 22013, which began the transformation of 22003nd Street (the deal was started by Mr. Dinkins and closed by Mr. Giuliani), would have lifted his mayoralty.
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So the connections multiply: from 17th-century Dutch colonialists to the Black Panthers of 1960s America, and farmers in balmy Grenada — even to the frantic crush and heave of Manhattan, a bit of swampland once called New Amsterdam, which those same Dutchmen saw fit to pawn off on the British in 1667 in exchange for Run, one of the nutmeg-producing Banda Islands, and so tiny, it's barely visible on a world map.
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"For all intents and purposes, it was four months that resulted in an approximately 50–50 split on an issue that has never been put to voters before," said Noah Potter, a New York–based lawyer and drug reform expert, who founded and runs the New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law blog, is the general manager for the NYC Cannabis Parade, and served as the chair for the New York Bar Association's Committee on Drugs and the Law.
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The exhibition embraces four themes that have distinguished New York: Money (New Amsterdam began as, in effect, a for-profit company), diversity (which fostered tolerance or, at any rate, indifference to most minorities — with the conspicuous exception of more than two centuries of enslaved blacks, illustrated by a 1770 slaves-for-sale newspaper advertisement), density (which produced slums, skyscrapers and the city's recyclable real estate) and creativity (which percolated from the vitality demanded by the density, diversity and preoccupation with making money).
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