summary of new amsterdam becoming new york?
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there is a great book to read about this:\n\nthe city at the center of the world\n\nessentially, the duke of york, the king of england's  brother, thought that controlling the port of new amsterdam would be advantageous to english colonial aspirations and business.  he sailed a navy and army there and the dutch settlers refused to help governor peter stuyvesant fight the english because stuyvesant had been such a tyrant.\n\nthe english took over and changed the name to new york, after the duke of york.  hopefully someone will come along and provide you with more details.
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THIS HAS NOT BEEN PROOFREAD, so treat the information as such. If you do see any errors, just correct them. \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nCHAPTER VII....................34\n\n \n\nOTHER NOTES CONNECTED WITH THE VERY EARLY KUYKENDALLS\n\n \n\nWe have seen that our first ancestor born in this country was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church of New York City. Before going on with a fuller account of the Kuykendalls mentioned in the records by generations that have gone before, a few words in regard to the history of this first church of America, where was baptized the first Kuykendall of America, will be interesting to our people. This interest grows out of the fact of the relation it bore to the beginning of our family history in this country.\nThis church of New Amsterdam, now New York, was organ-ized in the year 1628, and has continued to this day, and is now the wealthy Collegiate Church of New York City, and has ten buildings and fourteen ministers. It was founded and organized by Rev. Jonas Michaelus. The church building in which our first American born Kuykendall was baptized was a stone structure erected in the summer of 1642, and therefore was at the time of his baptism a new building. The pulpit and bell were made in Holland and shipped over to New York.\nIt was not the custom at that time to enter the name of the mothers, when children were baptized, and hence w~ do not see in this record the name of the mother of our first ancestor of American birth. This is unfortunate, as we are left without a knowledge of the early history of the first ancestor's mother, and family.\nIt is elsewhere explained that the patronymic, or father name of our first ancestor was Luur or Luer, or some modification of that name and that among the first baptisms of his children, the name Van Kuykendaal did not appear.\nAs stated he lived in Celderland, Holland, in the vicinity of Wageningen. He and Urbanus Luursen probably came to this country together in the employ of the Dutch West India Company. The affairs of that company were at that time under the supervision of Killiaen Van Rensselaer, who was a wealthy dealer in diamonds and pearls in Holland. This man purchased a large tract of land on the Hudson river and sent over a lot of Holland people,-farmers, mechanics and artisans, to develop the lands.\nJacob and Urbanus were undoubtedly brothers, and it would seem, from the evidence of the old records, that they came over to New Amsterdam about the winter of 1646. Probably both were mechanics, the records say that Urbanus was a mason. We do not know whether Jacob was married before leaving Holland or not.\nHe went to Fort Orange soon after arriving in America, and may have been in the employ of the company up to the time of his death. He must have died in 1656. He had a grant from the Lord Director General and Council for a lot for building purposes, dated October 25, 1653.\n\n  \n\nBEGINNING OF THE FAMILY KUYKENDALL .............................35\n\n\nOn this lot he had a home and little garden. Owing to the fact that the name of his wife does not appear anywhere in the records, we are unable to follow her later history as we should like.\nThere is little room to doubt that Leur grew up from early youth in the Esopus country, (the region about Kingston), and, as he married there and lived there, it is most likely that his mother, after the death of his father, moved from Fort Orange to Rochester, (now Accord), soon after she was left a widow.\nAt about the age of thirty, he married, in the year 1680, at Kingston, the daughter of a Hollander who lived in Esopus, her name being Grietje Tack, daughter of Aert Pietersen Tack and Annetje Ariens. The Tack family came from Holland at a very early day and settled at Esopus. Some of the family descendants lived there several generations.\nThere is today, at Stone Ridge, a little town of New York, about ten miles out from Kingston2 an ol
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New york, chicago, London
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That's what everyone said when the law passed in NYC and nothing changed.  Most people actually ended up liking it better.  People complained a little about it the first winter because it was cold outside but no one really cares anymore.  \n\nThe only problems are that: \n1) Drunk people keep trying to take their beer out onto the sidewalk now when they go to have a cigarette \n2) Upstairs neighbors complain that the drunk smokers on the sidewalk are too noisy (bars are open til 4am) and now there are more noise complaints
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I never really asked myself why New York City is also called "The Big Apple". Today I found the answer... At least a possible one.\n\nI went to Harlem and walked around for a couple of hours. I happend to come across the "Uptown Saterday Nite" Festival which is part of the 2005 Harlem Week. Nothing sensational but on the corner of 135th Street and 7th Avenue I noticed this old red building with a sign showing an upside down apple saying "The Big Apple". I took a photograph and went on.\nAfter coming home I did a little research on the internet, looking for this particular sign in Harlem. That's how I found out about the history of this sign and New Yorks nickname.\n\nIn the 1920's Jazz musicians picked the term "Big Apple" up from horseracing people who considered New York races and gigs to be where the big money was. Since a horse, up for a big purse in New York City, can't get paid off in big money himself, the lingo promised him a big apple. At this time a night club opened in Harlem called "The Big Apple". Some historians think that New Yorks nickname may have come from this long forgotten club. The club is gone, the sign, with its upside down apple, is still there.\n\nFor another theory you may want to read this article from the Society for New York City History.
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Politics in NYC are very complicated.
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grew up there.  it's about a 30-35 minute train ride from manhattan.  anything you'd like to know specifically?
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clueless, but maybe this site will address part of your question\n\nhttp://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041018ta_talk_surowiecki
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Ok, I am from Syracuse, NY  \n\nI can probably help. But I need more info. What kind of information do you want? Also which part of New york do you want the info on?\n\nNew York is so diverse that it is hard to guess what exactly you are looking for. There is the border that is shared with the wonderful country of Canada.  It stretches from Niagara Falls, a favorite of hopneymooners the world around,  through the St. Lawrence Seaway, to the Adirondack Mountains in the east, just above the NY State capoital of Albany.\n\nThen there is the section in the west that borders both Ohio and Pennsyvania in the west, through Syracuse, The Home of the Orangemen, Carrier Dome, and the world renown Syracuse University, producer of some of the finest Physicans in the world. It spawls across the state through  Ithaca, the home of Cornell University, another Ivy League institution of High Learning. It go across the beautiful farmlands of Cortland County, Delaware County (which boasts the very best trout fishing in the world) down throught the mountain range in the south, the Catskill Mountains.\n\nOf course you also have New York City and the five bouroughs to the furtherest south, which is arguably the absolute greatest city on the face of the earth. There is hardly a thing in the world that you can think of, that you can't find in New York City. There is also probably someone there to represent every country in the world. It is probably the most deversified city in the world.\n\nSo you see, without a bit more info on what you want to know, I would not know where to begin to tell you about New York.\n\nNote to FantasyAngel20;\n\nCentral Square is actually a village roughly 350 - 400 miles north of New York City. Also Albany is IN New York State.  It is the Capital.
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"Loving and Hating New York" in the September 1978 edition of the Atlantic by  Thomas Griffith, Volume 242, No. 3 page 26.\nBecause I am not subscribed to the Atlantic, I cannot give you the actual article.\n\nedit: responding to kam5, I found it by copying and pasting the entire text "What the New Yorker would find missing is what many outsiders find \noppressive and distasteful about New York - its rawness, tension, urgency; \nand the congested, democratic presence of so many other New Yorkers encased in their own world." into a Google Search and it came up with a link to the article in the Atlantic
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We've definetely noticed that Al Quada is an enemy. Also, the security changed, especially in airports (once my dad had to take off everything except his pants because they were suspecting him!) and less people started visited NYC. Everything is in New York City, which is why the terrorists decided to kill many birds in one stone by suicide bombing the World Trade Center. My dad helps restaurants in NYC, and he noticed that there were far less people visiting the restaurants of NYC. If you ever go to the Empire State Building, you'll have to wait in about 5 really long lines because of the tight security.\n\nI think that everything you need about 9/11 and its results would be found here:\nhttp://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html\nRate it and tell me if it is a helpful link, please.
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New York City, according to the movie
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Go to the Local Library in NYC.  They have on Microfilm the paper for that town on that exact day and year.  Check it out!
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Most common explanation is that it was entertainment/jazz speak for "the big city". but there are lots of interpretations. See link
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use the link below to read about the factory\nThe Beekman family, Colonial-era merchants, built a riverfront mansion near the foot of East 50th Street in 1764. Many sources say that the patriot-spy Nathan Hale was first arraigned there after his capture by the British in 1776. By the mid-19th century the East River waterfront had fallen far from its resort status, and coal yards, lumber mills and other industries dotted the shoreline, at least where there was good river access. \n\nPerhaps because the Beekman mansion's grounds were on a high, rocky bluff without good water access, the house remained standing until the 1870's. But in 1865 the family sold off much of its land around the newly established Beekman Place, including most of the river-facing lots between 49th and 51st Street. To protect the light and air of the brownstone row houses that soon went up at 13-39 Beekman Place, the Beekmans promised to restrict the height of future buildings on their remaining waterfront strip of land, directly below the houses, to no higher than that of Beekman Place itself. \n\nBy the turn of the century bigger and bigger factories were crowding the shoreline -- among them the huge Cremo cigar factory on the current site of River House at 52nd Street -- and the once-genteel private houses were filled with boarders. Still, a clipping from The New York Sun at the Museum of the City of New York, undated but probably from the 1910's, painted a bucolic picture of the clifftop houses looking down on the rocky shore below: ''Mothers in the neighborhood take their knitting and embroidery every afternoon and bask in the shade. . . . Even Coney Island and Rockaway have nothing on the beach at Beekman Place.'' \n\nBy this time the Beekman family estate was trying to void the 1865 height restriction on the waterfront strip -- with a free hand, it said, it could have wiped out the beach and replaced it with a giant steam plant. In 1920 The New York Times reported on what had been a six-year fight to remove the restrictions, which the row-house owners on Beekman Place had fought strenuously to keep. \n\nThe Beekmans' lawyer, Herbert L. Fordham, said that radical changes in the area should void the restriction because it was ridiculous to hang on to the ''half-forgotten vision of terraces and gardens . . . in the midst of towering steam plants, electric light plants and coal pockets. New York needs its waterfront for business.'' \n\nBY 1922 the Beekmans gave up the fight and leased the waterfront strip -- 460 feet long, stretching from 49th up to 51st, and including the empty plot on Beekman Place now occupied by 1 Beekman Place. \n\nThe lease was acquired by a development group that announced plans for a studio apartment on the Beekman Place frontage, and a one-story garage on the waterfront strip. The studio apartment was not built, but the garage, designed by John J. Dunnigan, later a state senator from the Bronx, did go up. It had simple rubble-stone walls and a curved, wood-truss roof. The garage entrance was at 49th street.
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from the link below:\n\nIt was established in 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the nation.
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www.cqs.com/super_ny.htm