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350 Years Ago, New Amsterdam Became New York. Don’t Expect a Party.
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Dutch New Amsterdam with 1500 inhabitants become British New York in 1664. It is later retaken by the Dutch and exchanged for Suriname in the West Indies. From a neglected outpost for the Dutch it becomes a center for trade under the growing British Empire. The city inherits the Dutch spirit of tolerance, diversity and aggressive free trading.
Dutch New Amsterdam becomes British New York in 1664 inheriting its Dutch spirit of tolerance, diversity and aggressive free trade
08/25/2014
A few cannon from ships near Lower Manhattan is all it took for the 1500 inhabitants of a neglected outpost of the declining Dutch Empire and the Dutch West India Company to make the shift to British rule. New York has retained much of that Dutch spirit in the intervening 350 years since then, especially the tolerance, diversity and aggressive free trading spirit. Some authors say many of the immigrants did not realize they were coming to a Dutch outpost with a Dutch feel when they landed in New York. Theodore Roosevelt and the Roosevelts are one of the prominent Dutch names. Some of that spirit was taken to the west and other parts of the country.
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350 Years Ago, New Amsterdam Became New York. Don’t Expect a Party.
New York Times 08/25/2014
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