Exploring Historic Dutch New York: New York City * Hudson Valley * New Jersey * Delaware"The Dutch spirit of diversity, tolerance, and entrepreneurship still echoes across our city streets today. This guide will highlight the history of the early settlements of these new world pioneers as well as the incredible impact they had, and still have, on the world's greatest city." — Michael R. Bloomberg, former Mayor, City of New York This comprehensive guide to touring important sites of Dutch history serves as an engrossing cultural and historical reference. A variety of internationally renowned scholars explore Dutch art in the Metropolitan Museum, Dutch cooking, Dutch architecture, Dutch immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, English words of Dutch origin, Dutch furniture and antiques, and much more. Color photographs and maps throughout."An expansive guidebook inspired by the Henry Hudson quadricentennial and accompanied by informative essays." — The New York Times |
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Contents
Editors Notes | 10 |
New York City | 24 |
Manhattan and the Bronx | 40 |
Queens and Nassau Counties | 64 |
Brooklyn | 76 |
Staten Island | 102 |
Hudson Valley | 114 |
MAP 6 7 8 East of the Hudson River Traveling North | 120 |
76 West of the Hudson River Traveling South | 156 |
New Jersey and Delaware | 172 |
Sussex and Warren Counties | 186 |
Hudson Monmouth | 194 |
Cape May to Burlington | 216 |
List of Sites | 224 |
Illustration Credits | 237 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Exploring Historic Dutch New York: New York City * Hudson Valley * New Jersey * Delaware |
| Editors | Gajus Scheltema, Heleen Westerhuijs |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Courier Corporation, 2018 |
| ISBN | 048683493X, 9780486834931 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / General Travel / United States / Northeast / General |
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