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The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
New York City served as the capital of the United States from 1785 to 1790. During the 1760s and 1770s, the city was a center of anti-British activity–for instance, after the British...
New York City traces its origins to Fort Amsterdam and a trading post founded on Manhattan Island by Dutch colonists around 1624. The settlement was named New Amsterdam in 1626 and was chartered as a city in 1653.
January 1: City of Greater New York created, consolidating the existing City of New York with the eastern Bronx, Brooklyn, most of Queens County, and Staten Island. January 1: Robert A. Van Wyck becomes mayor.
New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, considered the most influential American metropolis and the country’s financial and cultural center. New York City comprises five boroughs—Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island.
A settlement was founded at Flushing in 1645. In 1658 Dutch farmers built a village they called Nieuw Haarlem (New Harlem) after a town in Holland. In the 18th century, it became a fashionable place for merchants to build country houses. The first settlement on Staten Island was made in 1661.
By the year 1664 many different nationalities—the Indigenous People, every European country, and the African enslaved—lived and built a community together in one place. We are commemorating how these diverse cultures became 'one' and created the City of New York.
Learn about the foundation of New York City in the 17th-century and find out how it has changed throughout the centuries, becoming one of the main financial centers in the world and the most populated city of the United States.
The Founding of New York — LOWER MANHATTAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Marinus Willet, Tammany Hall & The Treaty of New York. On February 2nd, 1653 the Dutch West India Company formed the first Common Council to represent the residents of the colony.
“It is simply wrong,” Michael Miscione, the Manhattan borough historian, said of 1625 as the city’s birth date. “The first founding settlers of New York City landed here in 1624.”