In September 1664, New Amsterdam became New York. Here's the story of how Peter Stuyvesant lost the Dutch colony to the British marking the end of an era.

In 1664, New Amsterdam was overtaken by the British, who eventually demolished the wall and replaced it with a street (aptly named Wall Street). The specifics of the claims varied from post to post.

Before 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 ...

I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

New Amsterdam eventually grew up and put into place health codes and zoning laws. It came to an end on September 8, 1664 , when Stuyvesant surrendered the city to the English, who rechristened the ...

In 1664 the English seized New Netherland, including the town of New Amsterdam. They renamed the colony New York. At the time there were roughly 500 Dutch-speaking blacks in the colony.

New York City now has a trove of 17th-century documents online, including ordinances that depict New Amsterdam as a raucous, drunken, smelly center of commerce.

A 1664 map of New Amsterdam. The wide street is now Broadway, and Wall Street is the line with guard towers on the left. During the late 1630s, New Netherland ...

They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies.

Another historic trade. But the wall wasn’t enough to protect the Dutch from their own forced takeover: In August 1664, British soldiers stormed New Amsterdam; after its Dutch governor, Peter ...

A new, second option being studied and planned for discussion at the rally is to make Upstate New York its own state -- called "New Amsterdam" -- while Downstate would continue to be called "New ...