On the right page the clerk recorded the first day of court on February 6th, 1653. Records of New Amsterdam.

on February 2nd, 1653 as instructed by the Dutch West India Company on April 2, 1652. Kip probably sent this document in 1656 to the Company, where Hans Blumenthal, a director in Amsterdam, made his own copy. Both documents ended up in the Blumenthal papers at the New York Public Library. Reproduction from I.N. Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan Island, vol. IV plate 9. NYC Municipal Library.

George Hayward, lithographer“...somewhere near ranges of grim-looking warehouses, with rusty iron doors and shutters, and tiled roofs; and old anchors and chain-cables piled on the walk. Old-fashioned coffee-houses, also, much abound in that neighborhood, with sun-burnt sea-captains going in and out, smoking cigars, and talking about Havana, London, and Calcutta.<a href="https://culturenow.org/people/herman-melville?name=Herman_Melville">[1]</a>” -Herman Melville, Redburn

Program for Presentation of the City of New York Medallion of Honor, to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 1979 they moved to Tweed Courthouse and J&amp;amp;R Music World took over the space.   

A declaration that the Special Committee would be appointed to receive General (Marquis) Lafayette on his arrival from France

Herman Melville was born in a rooming house at 6 Pearl Street in 1819, the third of eight children. It still stood in 1858, the 2nd house from the right.A. Weingartner’s Lithography

The large Dutch farms were located east of Bowery [the dashed line from point 4 to 16] in what would now be the East Village and Lower East Side. The “Great Bouwery” is number 1 on the map just above #16 (the Brewery). The key says “No1 Comp Bouwery met Een Traffelleyck Huys” [Company’s Bouwery with an excellent house]. Eventually this would become Stuyvesant’s farm. The farms given to freed Blacks in 1644 likely stretched from numbers 9 to 10 on this map. Jan Pietersen’s Plantation (#9) was just above Spring Street near Minetta Creek. It is possible Emmanuel had worked this land and was given the northern portion. Manatus Map [detail]

Detail of Egbert Viele, Map of the lands included in the Central Park

This photograph gives us a sense of what buildings in Seneca Village may have looked like

George Hayward lithographer&nbsp;&nbsp;

Photographer: Eugene de Salignac. Department of Bridges, Plant &amp; Structures

Borough President Manhattan – Civil Works Administration

Photographer: Bob Leavitt for American Magazine.

Latin text in the lower scroll: "Sigillum Amstello: Damensis in Novo Belgio" (translation: "Seal of Amsterdam in New Netherland.") The seal combines the arms of Old Amsterdam with a beaver for a crest. The initials above, C.W.C., stand for “Chartered West India Company.” The Seal was presented to General Peter Stuyvesant in 1654. Stokes, I.N. Phelps. (1915). The Iconography of Manhattan Island (vol. 1, cover). New York: Robert H. Dodd.

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