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Peter Stuyvesant [note 1] (c. 1610 – August 1672) [1] [2] was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as the director-general of New Netherland from 1647 to 1664, when the colony was provisionally ceded to the Kingdom of England. [3]
Otto Soglow (1913-1915) [194] – Reuben Award-winning New Yorker cartoonist and creator of The Little King comic strip; dropped out of Stuyvesant to support his family; George Kisevalter (c. 1925) [195] – Central Intelligence Agency operations officer; handled Major Pyotr Popov, the first Soviet GRU agent run by the CIA, and Colonel Oleg ...
Stuyvesant High School (/ ˈ s t aɪ v ə s ən t / STY-və-sənt) [9] is a co-ed, public, college-preparatory, specialized high school in Manhattan, New York City, United States.The school, commonly referred to among its students, faculty and alumni as "Stuy" (/ s t aɪ / STY), [9] [10] [11] specializes in developing talent in math, science and technology.
Portrait of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, attributed to Hendrick Couturier, c. 1660 Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1793 –1795. Gov. Stuyvesant's house, erected 1658, afterwards called The Whitehall Augustus and Anne Van Horne Stuyvesant's home at 2 East 79th Street Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's statue of Peter Stuyvesant in the western half of Stuyvesant Square ...
The seventh annual MLB Little League Classic will take place on Sunday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. ET with the New York Yankees taking on the Detroit Tigers in Williamsport. The game will air on ESPN.
Stuyvesant also has a Junior State of America program (a political debate club). The Stuyvesant Theater Community puts on three student-run productions a year (a fall musical, a winter drama, and a spring comedy) as well as a one-act festival and several smaller studio productions. [84] Key Club International's branch at Stuyvesant was founded ...
Peter Stuyvesant (1612–1672), Director-General of the colony of New Amsterdam (later New York) Fred Thompson (1942–2015), U.S. Senator and actor George Bell Timmerman Jr. (1912–1994), Governor of South Carolina
Little League Baseball (World Series) South Williamsport, Pennsylvania: 1947 10–12 years old Intermediate League Baseball (World Series) Livermore, California: 2013 11–13 years old Junior League Baseball (World Series) Taylor, Michigan: 1981 13–14 years old Senior League Baseball (World Series) Easley, South Carolina: 1961 13–16 years old