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Dear readers, thank you for your readership over the last five years — and for your support, story tips, photos, reader comments and more, and...
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Editorial: Just say No to COYHO
The City of Yes. … eh, yeah, sure, it sounds positive. But you can’t judge a sweeping, citywide development program just on a catchy name....
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‘It had to go now’: East Village pizzeria owner sheds his shed
BY CHRIS RYAN | Workers recently dismantled Eleven B pizza restaurant’s outdoor dining setup in the East Village. Owner Vincent Sgarlato got a bit of...
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Elizabeth Street Garden’s last stand: Little Italy green dream faces City Hall’s wrecking ball
BY SUSAN SILVER | On the eve of its possible execution, the legendary Elizabeth Street Garden was dotted with afternoon visitors soaking up its perennial...
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Biking’s his life — but Bowery rider says e-bikes are making life hell
BY OTTO FRITTON | As electric bikes have boomed in New York City, enforcement of traffic regulations against scofflaw riders has failed to keep pace....
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Posts tagged as “Jaap Jacobs”

Dutch scholar claims to have found date slavery started in New Amsterdam

An illustration from roughly the same era showing ships similar to the Bruinvis, which a Dutch professor says brought the first enslaved Africans to New Amsterdam.

Dutch scholar claims to have found date slavery started in New Amsterdam

December 31, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | It’s an ignominious and dark date, but a Dutch scholar says he has established the exact day and year when the…

Stuyvesant and Mayken: A closer look at slavery in New Amsterdam and its legacy at St. Mark’s Church

A portrait of Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland's last director general, is shown next to a contemporaneous one of a young woman from Antwerp, possibly a European earl's servant. In his presentation, Professor Jaap Jacobs used the woman's image to stand in for Mayken van Angola, a slave in New Amsterdam for whom no image exists.

Stuyvesant and Mayken: A closer look at slavery in New Amsterdam and its legacy at St. Mark’s Church

August 29, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Was Peter Stuyvesant, the notorious director general of New Netherland in the mid-1600s, really the colony’s largest slave owner — or…