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The history of New York City (1665–1783) began with the establishment of English rule over Dutch New Amsterdam and New Netherland.As the newly renamed City of New York and surrounding areas developed, there was a growing independent feeling among some, but the area was decidedly split in its loyalties.
The images and a dramatic statement on national television by sportscaster Howard Cosell is widely seen as the symbolic nadir of a dark period in city history. The story of 1977 in New York City is later featured in such works as the film Summer of Sam by Spike Lee, the best-selling book Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning, and the ...
The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1528. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
1700 Jarvis-Fleet House: Huntington, Long Island: 1700 Lispenard–Rodman–Davenport House: New Rochelle: 1700 Tobias van Steenburgh House: Kingston: 1700 c. One of the few buildings in Kingston not burned in 1777 by British troops (though most of the burned stone houses were repaired and remain). Treasure House: Richmondtown, Staten Island: 1700
The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Lankevich, George J. New York City: A Short History (2002) Lockwood, Charles. Manhattan moves uptown: an illustrated history (Courier, 2014). Munn, Nancy D.
Dutch immigrants began to spread knowledge of the saint to the American public in the late 1700s. In December 1773 and 1774, ... "The History of New York."
Despite one brief year when the Dutch retook the colony (1673–1674), New York would remain an English and later British possession until the American colonies declared independence in 1776. With the unification of the two proprietary colonies of East Jersey and West Jersey in 1702, the provinces of New York and the neighboring colony New ...
History of New York City; Lenape and New Netherland, to 1664 New Amsterdam British and Revolution, 1665–1783 ... built in 1700. 1829 – Coney Island House opens. [24]