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One of the most influential Black newspapers in the city, the New York Amsterdam News, is undergoing a transformation, turning its historic newsroom into a museum. The paper was founded in 1909 ...
based on a famous 1660 map of New Amsterdam called the Castello Plan, is part of an exhibition at the city's Department of Records and Information Services headquarters called "New Visions of Old ...
And the exhibition displays a map of New Amsterdam, called the Castello Plan, that was painted around 1660, long before Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to the British. So what do you say when a king ...
Clockwise from top, galleries a at the Amsterdam Museum before a show opened; a City of New York flag (1970-77); a map of the New Amsterdam area, circa 1614; and a detail from “A ...
AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Slice of Amsterdam, located at 189 Market Street in Amsterdam, has new owners. The pizzeria is now owned by husband and wife duo Kanisha and Maurice Conyers ...
is built around a map showing New Amsterdam around 1660, at the peak of its settlement. The show’s curator, Russell Shorto, writes in the New York Times that correctly honoring 400 years of ...
AMSTERDAM, April 17 (Reuters) - The Netherlands' Amsterdam will no longer allow new hotel buildings to be built as part of its fight against mass tourism, the local government said on Wednesday.
By 1660, the colony of New Amsterdam had reached what would be its peak before the 1664 English takeover. A detailed map known as the Castello Plan—on view until 14 July at the New York ...
Explore The Castello Plan, the last and most detailed map of New Amsterdam before ... and Fort Amsterdam around the peak of the settlement in 1660. The exhibition surrounding this vital artifact ...
A spin-off of series New Amsterdam is currently in the works at NBC. The medical drama came to an end last year after five seasons, but Deadline has reported that the show will be returning to our ...
The Castello Plan of 1660, now visiting New York ... Russell Shorto’s revelatory chronicle of life in New Amsterdam. Shorto, who is also the show’s curator, argues in the book that the ...
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