Read Part 2 of this story. Many of my stories about the people, places and architecture of Brooklyn have a Dutch theme. That’s because the Dutch played such a vital role in the history of Brooklyn, ...

This article is written in English, not Dutch, because of what happened this month 360 years ago. In June 1665, New Amsterdam was reincorporated under English law as New York, and it has remained that ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands are visiting New York City and the New York State Capital on Wednesday and Thursday, June 12 and June 13. According ...

The 1665 painting ‘View at New Amsterdam,’ by Johannes Vingboons, is seen in this image released by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. The Netherlands’ national museum put some of the most important documents ...

The Shagen letter that describes the sale of the island of Manhattan from the Dutch by the Lenape people in 1626 for 60 guilders, about $24, which today's Lenape leaders dispute. Robert Caro's Smith ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Did you know the Dutch heavily influenced the five boroughs and their neighborhoods? Hundreds of years ago, the Dutch landed on what they called New Amsterdam, purchasing the island ...

Pinkster was originally a Dutch Pentecostal holiday, but enslaved Africans in New York and New Jersey adopted the tradition and it was considered as a Black holiday from the 1800s on. As Juneteenth ...

Just days before Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral election, voters in the Netherlands put a Dutch politician named Rob Jetten in position to form a government and become their ...