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View of the IJ and 's Lands Sea-arsenal in Amsterdam, 1664 by Reinier Nooms The glass roof of the courtyard inspired by the compass rose and rhumb lines on old nautical charts. The museum is housed in a former naval storehouse, 's Lands Zeemagazijn or Admiraliteits Magazijn , designed by the Dutch architect Daniël Stalpaert and constructed in ...
British authorities did not allow passengers ashore, but local fishing smacks delivered newspapers and telegrams to the ship each day. [20] On 30 June 1915 Nieuw Amsterdam was again anchored at The Downs, when another steamship collided with her. It was the eighth collision at The Downs in three days. [21] Konstantin Dumba
The Riverside Memorial Chapel is an American Jewish funeral home chain with their main facility at 180 West 76th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. [1] The company has been owned by Service Corporation International since 1971.
The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner that was built in 1938 and scrapped in 1974. She was the second Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) ship to be named after the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York.
The Walter Elwood Museum is a museum of local history in Amsterdam, New York. The museum is currently located in at 100 Church Street in the former Noteworthy Complex and historic Sanford & Sons Carpet Mills building. The museum was founded in 1939 by Walter Elwood, a local history teacher, who began collecting local artifacts in the 1930s.
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He called his plantation "Achervelt"; later it served as the founding of the town of New Amersfoort, named after Gerritse's original home. [3] Today the area is known as Flatlands . In 2007 the deed of the granted land in Long Island was sold to a private collector for $156,000 becoming "one of the oldest Dutch documents in private hands".