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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...
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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...
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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...
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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...
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Posts tagged as “New Netherland”

Karen’s Quirky Style: Merchant’s House and Manuels on E. Fourth St.

West Village femme fatale Karen Rempel reeks of noir at the Merchant's House Museum. (Photo by Philip Maier)

Karen’s Quirky Style: Merchant’s House and Manuels on E. Fourth St.

October 31, 2022

BY KAREN REMPEL | Ascend the stoop to the Merchant’s House Museum and you might be surprised at what you find. No staid merchants in…

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…

St. Mark’s Church, Peter Stuyvesant, slavery and ‘repairing the breach’

A statue of Peter Stuyvesant, dedicated by the Netherlands to New York City, stands in St. Mark's Church's eastern yard, gazing toward the New Netherland director-general's burial vault. (Photo by The Village Sun)

St. Mark’s Church, Peter Stuyvesant, slavery and ‘repairing the breach’

December 24, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Fri., Dec. 25, 12:15 a.m.: Along with the year of the pandemic, 2020 has been a year of racial reckoning…