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The British renamed the colony New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the mayors of New York. The city grew northward, remaining the largest and most important city in the colony of New York.
1881 – William Russell Grace elected first Catholic mayor of New York. 1882 January 13: A train wreck occurs just south of Spuyten Duyvil Creek when a local train from Tarrytown crashes into the tail end of an express from Albany, which had been stopped on the tracks after someone pulled the emergency brake. Eight were killed, including a ...
The first Dutch fur trading posts and settlements were in 1614 near present-day Albany, New York, the same year that New Netherland first appeared on maps. Only in May 1624 did the Dutch West India Company land a number of families at Noten Eylant (today's Governors Island ) off the southern tip of Manhattan at the mouth of the North River ...
New York was dominated by Iroquoian (green) and Algonquian (red) Indian tribes. The first peoples of New York are estimated to have arrived around 10,000 BC. Around AD 800, Iroquois ancestors moved into the area from the Appalachian region. The people of the Point Peninsula complex were the predecessors of the Algonquian peoples of New York. [2]
New York was the first capital under the newly enacted Constitution of the United States, from March 4, 1789, to August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall. [33] Federal Hall was also the site where the United States Supreme Court met for the first time, [ 34 ] the United States Bill of Rights were drafted and ratified, [ 35 ] and where the Northwest ...
NEW YORK – For the first time in 15 years, both New York City and Boston woke up to a white Christmas. Forecasters with the National Weather Service office in New York were out in Central Park ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 December 2024. For a list of the Dutch directors-general who governed New Amsterdam as part of New Netherland between 1624 and 1664, see Director-General of New Netherland. The mayor of New York City is the chief executive of the Government of New York City, as stipulated by New York City's charter ...