NOUN
- a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York
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- One I'd shipped with from New Amsterdam t'the Hesperides, heap o 'times; dropped back in at his home port, got kind of daffy overa doll and just lingered. The Gates of Noon
- But the title touches too on his westward landfall, centuries after the first of his countrymen, in the city that was once New Amsterdam, in the Dutch province of New Netherland. Powell's Books: Overview
- Shorto resurrects him from obscurity and portrays him as the early merchant pioneer who introduced the key notions of pluralism and personal liberty to what was then known as New Amsterdam.
- New Amsterdam's incorporation as a municipality in 1653 accelerated its transformation into a city consciously modeled on Dutch prototypes.
- The fur trade flourished and the Dutch city of New Amsterdam was established on Manhattan Island.
- Neither did they establish their claims to gentility at the expense of their tailors, for as yet those offenders against the pockets of society and the tranquility of all aspiring young gentlemen were unknown in New Amsterdam; every good housewife made the clothes of her husband and family, and even the goede vrouw of Van Twiller himself thought it no disparagement to cut out her husband's linsey-woolsey galligaskins. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
- At one point, the Dutch -- eager to improve their profits -- produced their own wampum in Holland, hoping to use it back in New Amsterdam to trade with the natives.
- Reminds me of the intro from a short-lived TV series called New Amsterdam (which is on Hulu), where the guy takes a shot of Times Square every year for the hundreds of years he has lived. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This image is completely filled with awesome.
- While I understand the temptation to reach for a shorthand to talk about New Amsterdam, generalizations like "alt-classical" really do the label a disservice as they mischaracterize the work of so many constituent artists and rob them of the creative idiosyncracies they've worked so hard to achieve. NewMusicBox
- New Amsterdam has a much softer, citrusy taste than traditional, juniper-heavy gins, which is why people who aren't gin fans like it. Tony Sachs: New Amsterdam Gin Made A Mixologist Out Of Me... Sort Of