This week in 1647, Dutch Director General Peter Stuyvesant creates NYC's first zoning laws. Today's lower Manhattan street grid is the lingering result. 10 interesting facts about Williamsburg ...

17th-Century vice-admiral of the Dutch West India Company, had the words "killer" and "thief" scrawled on his plinth Outside the Dutch parliament, slogans were daubed on a statue of Johan van ...

Three hundred and seventy years ago this week, a group of 23 Sephardic Jews arrived on the shores of New York — then called ...

Colonization took out the rest. By 1639, the Dutch West India Company, under the colony’s director, Willem Kieft, began grabbing the land in present-day Westchester and the Bronx. The native ...

According to legend—and a letter sent by Peter Schagen back to his sponsoring Dutch West India Company—the indigenous Lenape tribes of what is now the east coast of the US and Canada sold Manhattan to ...

Amo, a native of Nkubeam (now Ghana), was likely kidnapped from his home and presented as a child-gift from the slave-trading Dutch West India Company to Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel ...

It is Landing Day, the 370th anniversary of the arrival of 23 Jews at New Amsterdam, which would become New York City, which ...

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Mumbai and Jakarta share a 200-year history of trade in spices, a once-shared love for Bombay’s silent films, and Indian ...

An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and powerless have fought back — time and again — against those ...

Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) today announced that it will supply the 2024 edition of the World Utilities ...