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In 1613, the Dutch established a trading post on the western shore of Manhattan Island. Juan Rodrigues was the first documented non-native to live on Manhattan Island. [11] In 1614 the New Netherland company was established, and consequently they settled a second fur trading post in what is today Albany, called Fort Nassau.
Manhattan was first mapped during a 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company. [15] Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany. [16]
2. Cartography: an essay on the development of knowledge regarding the geography of the east coast of North America; Manhattan Island and its environs on early maps and charts / by F.C. Wieder and I.N. Phelps Stokes. The Manatus maps. The Castello plan. The Dutch grants. Early New York newspapers (1725–1811). Plan of Manhattan Island in 1908
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The Hulls moved into the property c1800 but built the house in 1820. The house is the oldest stone house in Erie county. LaTourette House Staten Island 1836 1836 brick Federal-style building now used as clubhouse for city-owned golf course. [18] Anshe Slonim Synagogue: Lower Manhattan: 1849 Oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City
The Morris–Jumel Mansion is the oldest surviving house in Manhattan. [292] [293] Because there is a caretaker's apartment in the house, it is also Manhattan's oldest building that is still technically in residential use. [293] Additionally, the mansion has been described in The New York Times as one of Manhattan's oldest buildings of any kind ...
June 4: 22-year-old drifter John Royster brutally beats a 32-year-old female piano teacher in Central Park, the first in a series of attacks over a period of eight days. Royster would go on to brutally beat another woman in Manhattan , rape a woman in Yonkers and beat a woman, Evelyn Alvarez, to death on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of ...
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New York.