In the Media
December 27, 2009
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The graphic novel "Journey into Mohawk Country," by the artist George O'Connor, tells the tale of a 23-year old surgeon and adventurer, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who was charged with forging new trade relationships for the Dutch colony. In the winter of 1634, he and two friends set off from Fort Orange, in present-day Albany, north to Iroquois country, where the Mohawk tribe controlled the most important trade routes in the region. Van den Bogaert, a likely ancestor of Humphrey Bogart, chronicled the journey in a diary that was later translated by Charles Gehring, the director of the New Netherland Project at the New York State library.
December 13, 2009
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Recycle-A-Bicycle’s 15th Birthday Celebration was Monday night at Superfine Restaurant, 126 Front St. in DUMBO from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission prices started at $20, all above $50 come with a Recycle-A-Bicycle T-shirt.
December 02, 2009
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A show pairs works considered to be by the master with drawings of the same or similar subjects by 15 other artists.
December 02, 2009
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You might think things would change around the office with the boss being ordained as a knight of the Netherlands. But it's business at usual at Southeastern Dermatology. It's just that the boss, Dr. Andrew Hendricks, is now a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
December 01, 2009
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Design Miami, the international fair born of culture and commerce, opened Tuesday under a big top in which dozens of galleries showcased lim
Design Miami, the international fair born of culture and commerce, opened Tuesday under a big top in which dozens of galleries showcased limited-edition furniture and accessories ranging from a gold-plated Uzi encased in acrylic to ceiling fans dressed in fuchsia textile cutouts.
Designer of the Year
Maarten Baas delivered an installation dedicated to the art of sitting: seven sculpted chairs and an abstract bookcase fashioned from a rocker and two other chairs. ited-edition furniture and accessories ranging from a gold-plated Uzi encased in acrylic to ceiling fans dressed in fuchsia textile cutouts.
Designer of the Year
Maarten Baas delivered an installation dedicated to the art of sitting: seven sculpted chairs and an abstract bookcase fashioned from a rocker and two other chairs.
December 01, 2009
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November 29, 2009
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Some things seem doomed in the digital age, and the atlas is one. Who needs to plow through a book to track down a map, when you can call it up within seconds on Google Maps? An online map is also likelier to be up-to-date than the printed one, which could have been published years ago.
November 29, 2009
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NEW YORK—It took 400 years, but an apology was made on Friday by the Collegiate Church community to the Lenape tribe for their suffering and dehumanization.
“We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people, and disregarded your culture, along with your dreams, hopes and great love for this land … We the Collegiate Church recognize our part in your suffering,” said Reverend Robert Chase of the Collegiate Church at the reconciliation ceremony.
November 11, 2009
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Dutch design superstar Marcel Wanders has built some buzz for his first holiday collection for Target. Not everything is a winner, but the porcelain pieces -- some reminiscent of the flowerpot hats that '80s pop group Devo wore -- are irresistible, particularly at $14.99 for a large bowl or a set of three smaller bowls. The dishes ($4.99 to $12.99 each) have a granny-ish gold scalloped edge. The glass dinner bell, which doubles as a place card holder, is a winner at $2.99 but looks better in red, silver and gold. At 17 1/2 inches tall, the pillar candles ($19.99 each) will burn up to 60 hours, though they will look as if you ripped them from a staircase railing. The more dainty and shapely tapers ($14.99 a pair) are boxed with ceramic holders -- a nice touch, except they don't accommodate standard-size candles. For a store near you with the collection in stock, go to
www.target.com, search for "Marcel Wanders" and click on "Find it at a Target store."
Dutch design superstar Marcel Wanders has built some buzz for his first holiday collection for Target. Not everything is a winner, but the porcelain pieces -- some reminiscent of the flowerpot hats that '80s pop group Devo wore -- are irresistible, particularly at $14.99 for a large bowl or a set of three smaller bowls. The dishes ($4.99 to $12.99 each) have a granny-ish gold scalloped edge. The glass dinner bell, which doubles as a place card holder, is a winner at $2.99 but looks better in red, silver and gold. At 17 1/2 inches tall, the pillar candles ($19.99 each) will burn up to 60 hours, though they will look as if you ripped them from a staircase railing. The more dainty and shapely tapers ($14.99 a pair) are boxed with ceramic holders -- a nice touch, except they don't accommodate standard-size candles. For a store near you with the collection in stock, go to
www.target.com, search for "Marcel Wanders" and click on "Find it at a Target store."
November 09, 2009
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WASHINGTON — The health system in the United States may be twice as expensive as those in Europe, and the population may be less healthy, but at least Americans have access to many more choices of doctors and insurers. Right?
November 07, 2009
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Even first-time visitors to Peekskill will have no problem finding their way from the waterfront to the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art. All they have to do is follow the tile trail.
Delftware-inspired tiles, created by approximately 2,200
schoolchildren, are embedded in red mulch and tree wells and mounted on
walls on Main, Division, South and Water Streets. And together with
hundreds of traditional Dutch tiles, they adorn 16 new concrete benches
along the route.
November 01, 2009
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We went to Rotterdam to see how they protect ship channel when storm surge comes
October 30, 2009
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Many of the 20,000 international runners in
Sunday’s New York City Marathon are transforming local hotels into a
cluster of high-rise Olympic villages.
October 29, 2009
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Philadelphians, already riding high with their Phillies in the World
Series, are in for another delight when a certain famed Dutch designer
descends on the City of Brotherly Love for the opening of "Marcel
Wanders: Daydreams" at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 21.
October 28, 2009
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The Dutchman – who has now won the competition for the the third straight year - was present at the ceremony held at Ministry of Sound along with other stars David Guetta (3rd), Above and Beyond (4th), Gareth Emery (9th) and Sander van Doorn (10th).
Others to have made it into the top flight included 2008 runner up Tiesto who again finished in second place, Paul Van Dyk (5th), Ferry Corsten (7th) and Markus Schulz (8th). These poll regulars were this year joined by Deadmau5 who finished sixth after a hugely successful twelve months.
October 26, 2009
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The Dutch have long been known for innovative ways of managing water in flood-prone regions. So perhaps it is not surprising that designers in the Netherlands are envisioning floating cities that would make parts of low-lying nations habitable amid dramatically rising sea levels and storm surges linked to climate change.
October 24, 2009
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Dutch and English names are chiseled into the worn markers at the Old Dutch Burying Ground.
On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow
traveler in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in
a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck, on perceiving that he was headless!
. . . They had now reached the road which turns off to Sleepy Hollow, .
. . crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells
the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.’’ “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’’
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October 23, 2009
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Russell Shorto says these books on the history
of New York City can make it anywhere:
A Description of New Netherland
The ur-historian of New York is Adriaen van der Donck, who in 1641
ventured from the Dutch Republic to its New World colony of New
Netherland. He quickly fell in love with the place, particularly with
its capital, New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island. In an account of his
visit that he hoped would inspire his countrymen to venture west, he
wrote in the opening paragraph that he had found "a very beautiful,
pleasant, healthy, and delightful land, where all manner of men can
more easily earn a good living and make their way in the world than in
the Netherlands or any other part of the globe I know." The book, which
was not published in English in its entirety until last year, shows New
York in its infancy: Van der Donck dotes on the flora and fauna of
Manhattan and writes in a respectful, almost sociological way about the
local Indians. And he gives a history of the island's occupants—already
a rich ethnic mix—who show a can-do spirit that he predicts will one
day lead to great things.
October 21, 2009
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Mr. van Hooydonk is careful about predictions. ''I'm from Holland, where we're straightforward. I don't like labels,'' he said. ''A word can take on a life of its own. I don't want to add to the world's supply of vocabulary. I want to add to the world's supply of design.''
October 18, 2009
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A time capsule of materials from 2009 will be buried for a century at Habirshaw Park in Yonkers to commemorate the quadricentennial of the Hudson River. Pictures, letters, and other items are being collected ahead of the burial ceremony. The scheduled burial of the time capsule will be at 11:30 AM, Saturday, October 24.
October 15, 2009
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To mark the final day of the
Nature as Artifice exhibition at Aperture Gallery, Aperture presents a recording of the panel discussion with curator Maartje van den Heuvel, catalog editor Tracy Metz, artists Jannes Linders, Hans van der Meer, Frank van der Salm, Edwin Zwakman, and Alison Nordstrom of the George Eastman House
October 15, 2009
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There will even be a touch of royalty passing through the five boroughs: Dutch Prince Pieter Christiaan Michiel plans to run for the World Wildlife Fund.
October 15, 2009
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Forget the High Line -- go check out the newly opened Poughkeepsie Bridge's
Walkway Over the Hudson this weekend. After decades of disrepair, the bridge has finally re-opened and holds the honor of being the longest pedestrian bridge in the world. What used to be an old railroad bridge is now a 1.25-mile stretch of pure pedestrian fun, connecting Poughkeepsie with Highland. The bridge originally opened in 1888 and was heralded as a technological wonder; as of 1889, the bridge was the longest in the world. After nearly one hundred years of continuous use, the bridge suffered a huge fire in 1974 and there it sat until efforts began to restore the historic landmark in 1993.
October 12, 2009
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400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
October 06, 2009
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The Netherlands and the United States this fall celebrated 400 years of strong relations, but the alliance is about to be tested on the battlegrounds of Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama is weighing a difficult decision to send more American troops to Afghanistan at a time when the Netherlands is preparing to pull its own soldiers from the war-torn country next year.
October 04, 2009
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ALBANY -- Dutch sailing vessels were loaded Monday at the Port of Albany aboard the transport vessel Flinterborg, which will take them back to Harlingen in the Netherlands.
The flotilla was brought to New York to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration that led to the region's first European settlements.
The boat loading continue Tuesday.
Read more:
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=849653
October 04, 2009
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NEW YORK—Walkway Over the Hudson, formerly known as the Poughkeepsie
Railroad Bridge, is now officially the longest pedestrian bridge in the
world at approximately 1.25 miles. The bridge officially opened on
Saturday in the Poughkeepsie area of upstate New York.
October 04, 2009
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The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge, built in the late 19th
century to link New York and New England to the coal beds of
Pennsylvania and the West, is a marvel of Industrial Revolution
engineering. It fills the sky over the Hudson River, a muscular lattice
of trusses and struts on giant footings, a survivor from a long-gone
era before bridge mediocrities like the Tappan Zee.
September 28, 2009
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Being a prince or princess isn't all tiaras and Tatler. In
fact, it's a stage you can't exit. "You’re in this function and with
this responsibility 365 days a year," the Dutch throne’s heir apparent,
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, told VF Daily’s Royal Watch.
September 27, 2009
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The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art is located in Peekskill, which was founded by the Dutch in the mid-1600s and gets its name from a resident of New Amsterdam (New York City), Jan Peeck. Curated by the founders of the HVCAA, Mark and Livia Strauss,
Double Dutch, an exhibition of 16 young Dutch artists, celebrates the Quadricentennial of the Dutch discovery and settlement of the Hudson River and its environs.
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September 26, 2009
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“Double Dutch,” at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art,
is one of the more pleasant surprises among the cultural events
celebrating the 400th anniversary of the European discovery of the
Hudson Valley and its ensuing settlement.
September 25, 2009
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Four hundred years ago this month, Henry Hudson,
looking for a sea route to Asia, sailed into what is now New York
Harbor. His arrival is celebrated as the beginning of Dutch settlement
in North America. A few years later, Dutch traders established New
Amsterdam to trade animal furs with local Indians. Today that
settlement is known as New York City.
September 24, 2009
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The Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC was the monumental décor of the first presentation of ‘Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009’ on American soil.
September 23, 2009
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Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today helped the House pass a
resolution, H.Con.Res. 178, celebrating the U.S-Netherlands
relationship and this year's quadricentennial celebration of Henry
Hudson's exploration and discovery of the river in New York that now
bears his name. Hinchey traveled to the Netherlands in March to join
Her Royal Highness Queen Beatrix for a kickoff of that country's
quadricentennial celebration.
September 23, 2009
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Maria van der Hoeven, Minister of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands, discusses why Europe believes US climate change legislation is so important. She also talks about the cap and trade policies of the European Union.
September 21, 2009
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It was Saturday night in the meatpacking district. The velvet ropes were out; a rumbling bass pulsed out of every club. Well, nearly every club. At
Cielo,
which says on its Web site that it is “purpose-built for dancing with a
centrally located sunken dance floor,” no one was shaking it. Instead,
a rapt crowd, many of them sitting on the purpose-built dance floor,
watched two teams of Dutch and American designers make pleas for their
plans to improve bicycle riding in New York City.
September 20, 2009
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The New Island Festival, celebrating Dutch performance and the 400th
anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage into New York Harbor,
runs through Sept. 20 on Governor's Island.
September 20, 2009
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In celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage and NYC’s Dutch heritage, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende will be making his first visit to the Wyckoff Farmhouse. Built c. 1652, Wyckoff Farmhouse is New York City and New York State’s oldest historic structure and one of the country’s ten oldest structures.
September 20, 2009
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Sustainable design, slow food and senior citizens invade NYC's
Governors Island for the Droog-produced Pioneers of Change exhibition.
September 20, 2009
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Nobody out there will say it is overbooked. Plenty of rooms and
apartments are available. Still, the Dutch folks participating in the New Island Festival
— an arts festival that took place over two four-day periods and ended
on Sunday — had to sleep in tents on a deserted baseball ground. The
accommodations, eight rows of new tents, looked primitive, but the
inhabitants hardly complained.
September 20, 2009
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They may have abandoned what would become Manhattan to the English in
1674, but since the beginning of September the Dutch have been showing
their appreciation for the city by spoiling New Yorkers with an array
of cultural events in honor of "400 years of enduring friendship."
September 20, 2009
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Often it feels as if the city is actively trying to keep you from
enjoying all that it has to offer. That's certainly how it felt Sunday
night, as I tried to make my way down to the Governor's Island ferry.
After transferring trains four times, I finally found one and arrived
in time for the boat, only to be told (along with all the gays looking
to make it in time for the Saint at Large's dance event, Freemasons)
that I'd have to wait for the next ferry.
September 18, 2009
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Nothing entrances the painting lover like the work of Vermeer. At the
time of Vermeer’s early death, at the age of 43, in 1675, the silent
Dutchman—silent because he left behind no writing, or even an
identifiable self-portrait, and because most of his work is supremely
un-rhetorical—had painted more than a dozen all time masterpieces.
September 18, 2009
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Eighteen traditional Dutch sailing ships, or “barges,” arrived at
Catskill Point Friday afternoon to the delight of an awaiting public,
as part of the state’s ongoing Quadricentennial celebration and NY400:
Holland on the Hudson.
September 17, 2009
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Princess Maxima and Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands had a
good view of the ship parade in New York Harbor last Sunday from the
deck of a Netherlands Navy launch. Many historic ships were on display
just off Battery Park, including a replica of the Half Moon, the vessel
that 400 years ago carried Henry Hudson up the river that now bears his
name.
September 17, 2009
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OK, so there's no desert and no burning man, but the surreal and
bohemian spirit that Burning Man celebrates is alive and well on
Governors Island, where the New Island Festival is taking place from now through Sunday.
September 17, 2009
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Touring an archaeological dig site, you generally expect a glimpse of
antiquities a little more antediluvian than a television antenna, a
seven-inch single, a tailfin and a rotary-dial telephone. But an odd
excavation site that recently opened to the public on Governors Island
purports to offer just that: artifacts not of the Mesoamerican but of
the midcentury variety, about 1954.
September 17, 2009
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A Bronx prosecutor and some fellow New Yorkers are getting a real Dutch treat this week. She and the others have been in Amsterdam and the rest of the Netherlands seeing the Dutch way of doing things. It
was in return for a visit by dozens of Dutch professionals brought to
The Groot Apple - as the Dutch would say - to help celebrate the
Netherlands-sponsored voyage of Henry Hudson to Manhattan 400 years ago.
September 17, 2009
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According to the Aperture Foundation’s current exhibition, the
classical Dutch landscape is dead, both literally and in relation to
contemporary art.
Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art presents us with a sad and startling new environ.
September 17, 2009
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Alex Bakker discovered last week that if there’s one word that transcends cultural boundaries, it’s “iPod.” Bakker,
an assistant principal in Amsterdam, uttered the magic word while he
was guest-teaching Michael Parrish’s third-grade class at P.S. 89 last
Friday, and he immediately got the kids’ attention.
September 17, 2009
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There probably was more Dutch spoken last Thursday
night on Governors Island than the typical American tourist hears in
Amsterdam (although that’s not very much) for previews of the Pioneers
Change and the New Island Festival arts events
September 17, 2009
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If you haven't sailed off to
Governors Island yet, we
strongly suggest a visit on Sunday, September 20th. There's a free
ferry that leaves every 20 minutes from the Battery Maritime Building
(just to the east of the Staten Island ferry) and even the ride over is
spectacular.
September 16, 2009
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A flotilla of historic Dutch sailing
ships is making its way up the Hudson River to mark this month's 400th
anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage aboard the Half Moon.
September 16, 2009
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If there’s one thing you can say about the work of Johannes Vermeer
(1632–1675), it’s that it never wears thin on repeated viewing, which
is why this recession special of a survey—a roundup, basically, of
collection holdings augmented by a single, high-profile loan—is likely
to do land-office business. Trust us, this will be one packed
exhibition, so expect to fight for a brief glimpse of the star of the
show: Vermeer’s
The Milkmaid (1657–58).
September 16, 2009
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“Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The Milkmaid,’” a tiny show at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, sets an example for recession-era museum practice. A
single guest diva, “The Milkmaid,” from the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam,
heads a cast of local talent: the museum’s own five Vermeers and
related works from the Dutch Golden Age.
September 16, 2009
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On Thursday, a flotilla of historic Dutch sailing ships will sail pass
Dutchess County, recreating Henry Hudson's initial voyage on the Half
Moon in 1609.
September 16, 2009
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Nineteen traditional Dutch boats arrived from Holland in early
September aboard a cargo ship into New York Harbor and have been making
their way up the Hudson River this week as part of NY 400 Week, an
observance of Henry Hudson’s sojourn up the river 400 years ago.
September 16, 2009
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As you may have heard, Brooklyn has been in Dutch for many years, say
400, and this year joins with the city of Santa Fe in New Mexico in
celebrating its birthday. With our abundance of Dutch farmhouses—from
Wyckoffs to Lotts to Lefferts—we still live with our Dutch ancestors.
September 16, 2009
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Catskill will welcome 18 Dutch flat-bottomed boats and their crews Friday with a reception at the Historic Catskill Point.
September 16, 2009
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What comes to mind when you think of the Dutch? Tulip bulbs? The color
orange? Windmills? Wooden shoes? Speed skating? St Nicholas? Cookies?
Gouda cheese? Amsterdam’s infamous red light district? Tall, blonde
people?
September 16, 2009
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FOUR hundred years ago a Dutch ship called the
Halve Maen
(Half Moon), Henry Hudson at the helm, arrived at the tiny island of
Mannahatta. Less than half a century later Johannes Vermeer, a Delft
artist, began painting scenes of the Dutch world Hudson left behind. On
the anniversary of the voyage, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has lent
Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid” to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 16, 2009
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Scholars are not sure what Margrieta van Varick looked like, or even
how she spelled her name, even though she ran a successful furnishings
import business in Dutch New York. In her meager surviving paperwork
from the 1690s the name variants include Margrita, Grietje and Magret.
September 16, 2009
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Tom Van de Voort, a 14-year-old, Dutch student who attends Oostvaarders
College and lives in Almere, a city near Amsterdam, had never been to
the United States. When he arrived in New York he was anxious to see
the sights and learn about the culture, but like most newcomers he also
began to take note of the subtle differences between this country and
his own.
September 16, 2009
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Remember, New York was once New Amsterdam, so it stands to reason we'd have a special place in Dutch hearts.
Tulipa vvedenskyi ‘Henry
Hudson,' named in honor of the 400th anniversary of explorer Henry
Hudson’s discovery of Manhattan Island and the river that bears his
name, is an orange species tulip bred by the Institute of Horticultural
Plant Breeding in Wageningen, the Netherlands, and grown by Piet
Apeldoorn of Th. Apeldoorn, Egmond-Binnen, the Netherlands. Plant
'Henry Hudson' now for a spring bloom.
September 15, 2009
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Issue-oriented docudramas culled from interviews with real people
always run the risk of being more preachy than provocative, more
earnest than eye-opening. There's even something about the title
"Aftermath" suggesting that it's theater that's supposed to be good for
you.
September 14, 2009
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Anna Wintour has been called many things - and not all of them positive - from Nuclear Wintour to Fashion Fury to the Devil Who Wore Prada. But on Saturday, the Vogue editrix showed her softer side when she put on her Supportive Mama hat and made an appearance on Governors Island, where daughter Bee Shaffer is working at Holland's New Island Festival.
September 14, 2009
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Ah, remember the good 'ol sock hop days of Governors Island? Jukeboxes
blaring the latest tunes as teens gathered round milkshakes and
cheeseburgers; the city skyline just off in the distance providing the
perfect backdrop to the 50s soundtrack. No? You mean you don't remember
the snow factory that manufactured snow year round? What an uneducated
lot!
September 14, 2009
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In honor of the quadricentennial of Henry
Hudson's voyage up the Hudson River, New York City is going back to its
roots by commemorating its Dutch history. On Sept. 12, 1609, Hudson and his crew of 20 arrived and founded what was then known as New Amsterdam.
September 14, 2009
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This week and next, New York City will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in New York Harbor. What would the city look like if the Dutch had never left?
September 14, 2009
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George W. Bush's administration lacked a reputation for benevolence. Nevertheless, in 2003, it sold Governors Island's
150 acres to the city of New York for $1. (Not since Manhattan went for
a few baubles has such a real estate coup occurred. Somewhere,
doubtless, Trump and Thor Equities wept.)
September 13, 2009
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In the midst of New York Fashion Week, America has had a taste of
European elegance first-hand courtesy of one of the continent's most
stylish royals, Argentinian-born Crown Princess Maxima of the Netherlands. The princess and her husband Crown Prince Willem-Alexander
have spent the past week in the Big Apple helping celebrate NY400 week
- the 400th anniversary of Dutch explorer Henry Hudson's arrival into
what became New York harbour.
September 13, 2009
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Today, I finally got on the ferry and went out to Governors Island.
For you non-New Yorkers, Governors Island is an island located just
south of Manhattan and was once used as a military base. An entire
complex of buildings, including forts, churches, and army barracks,
still remains in excellent condition on the island.
September 13, 2009
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As part of NY400 — a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry
Hudson’s journey to the New World — 10 Dutch professionals and New York
professionals are swapping jobs. Last week, the Dutch workers — including a teacher, fireman,
midwife, district attorney and farmer — joined their American
counterparts. This week the New Yorkers are in Holland. We caught up
with Dutch fireman Patrick Nugter and FDNY lieutenant John Scully.
Scully and his brother, fire chief Stephen Scully had shown Nugter the
ropes.
September 13, 2009
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After years of having its top talent grabbed up by New York’s top
houses of funny, a small but influential Dutch comedy troupe has
finally made its debut here. Last week, the English-speaking
Amsterdammers of Boom Chicago kicked off a Governors Island celebration
of the quadricentennial of the founding of New York (as New Amsterdam)
by the Dutch; a performance last night included both a funeral for the
N-word and an improvised musical ode to bongs.
September 13, 2009
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“The Dutch. They are so ... relaxed,” said one of the many people
lining up for food at the New Island Festival on Governors Island on
Sunday night. She was right.
The festival, an entirely mad
idea from a practical point of view, was proceeding with a kind of calm
chaos as servers stomped (in clogs, of course) up and down a
400-foot-long wooden table that dominated a central performance area
called the Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
September 13, 2009
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Dutch Royalty met with US dignitaries as they marked the 400th
anniversary of explorer, Henry Hudson's historic voyage to New York in
1609. Hudson's visit spurred a wave of European settlers to
make the same voyage across the Atlantic ocean and settle in the Dutch
colony, then known as New Amsterdam.
September 12, 2009
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The celebration riveted the nation. The government spent years in
planning, the news media tracked every development, and residents
flocked to the events in droves.
September 11, 2009
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If you live in New York, you are probably well aware that this year
marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage from
Amsterdam to the island of Manhattan. To commemorate the occasion, the
city has been pulling out all the stops.
September 11, 2009
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In an event that was part trade show, part Epcot Center exhibit, a
Dutch village sprang up for a ten-day run right in front of the Old
Customs House at Bowling Green Park, across the street from Battery
Park. The event was staged to promote Dutch products and to renew ties
between the Netherlands and the City of New York, which was originally
called New Amsterdam.
September 11, 2009
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MIKE WALLACE, the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of “Gotham,” calls
“New York 400”
(Running Press, $40) an “aide-memoire” — the equivalent of a family
photo album by 16 historians with their own idiosyncratic focus on what
the subtitle calls “A Visual History of America’s Greatest City.”
September 10, 2009
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This weekend brings the culmination of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the Hudson River.
Tomorrow, there will be sailing races with the Dutch ships in port
around the area of Governors Island. On Sunday there will be a parade
of ships (Half Moon, Onrust, Flying Dutchman, Van Speijk, Urk,
Clearwater, Clipper City and Pioneer) and a formation of about 50
flatbottom boats brought over from Holland.
September 10, 2009
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What do you think when you think of Holland? Windmills, tulips and
clogs, for sure. Maybe sleek bicycles and good social services, soccer
and canals, Genever gin and
Vermeer. But experimental theater? Probably not.
September 10, 2009
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Beginning Sunday, not far from where the saltwater of the sea and the
freshwater of the river bearing Henry Hudson’s name intermingle in an
estuary that nestles along the island of Manhattan, the documents that
began it all will be on display: meticulously preserved ledgers with
ornate scripts, delicately colored maps and drawings, an official
government pronouncements that gave birth to New Amsterdam and led
ultimately to the creation of the City of New York.
September 10, 2009
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New York has been celebrating its Dutch ancestry in grand style, with a
weeklong festival of free bicycles, royal visits and ceremonial
flotillas along the Hudson. But the city’s best 400th-anniversary
present comes in a small, discreet package:
Vermeer’s painting “The Milkmaid,” on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
September 10, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - The 1626 letter known
as New York's "birth certificate" is among dozens of rare documents and
images going on display Sunday as part of an exhibit on the development
of New Amsterdam.
The exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum celebrates the 400th
anniversary of the Henry Hudson voyage that led to the Dutch settlement
on Manhattan.
September 10, 2009
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The New Island Festival, which presents site-specific performances of
all sizes and media across Governors Island, invites New Yorkers to
experience the culture of the Netherlands.
September 10, 2009
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With the anniversary of 9/11 upon us, it’s a touching irony that the discovery of Manhattan by Henry Hudson and the Dutch East India Company
is being celebrated at exactly the same time. In the spirit of rebirth,
here are two extraordinary exhibits not to be missed as the Dutch
return to Manhattan this week for NY400.
September 10, 2009
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Here's a deal to write home about. Proof positive of the
world's most famous real-estate transaction is now on display at the
South Street Seaport Museum. Visitors can take a look at a 1626 letter
from Dutchman Pieter Schaghen confirming the famous purchase of
Manhattan by Dutch Gov. Peter Minuit from the Lenape tribe for $24
worth of trinkets.
September 10, 2009
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Wall Street never cut a deal that good again: the whole of Manhattan
purchased from the original Indian inhabitants for 24 dollars. The
only written testimony to the sale 400 years ago now headlines an
exhibition opening Sunday on New Amsterdam, the impoverished Dutch
colony that the English soon seized and turned into New York.
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Four hundred (!) years ago, Henry Hudson docked in New York Harbor aboard his boat
Halve Maen
(’Half Moon’). Though the little village he stumbled upon has been
transformed into the metropolis we know today, celebrate its beginnings
at NY400 Week, an effort to honor the tolerance and entrepreneurship of
of New Amsterdam.
September 10, 2009
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Though it was a national holiday, Governors Island was hard at work
this Labor Day weekend. For the three-day stretch from Friday to
Sunday, a record-setting 25,000 people visited the island.
September 10, 2009
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WALL Street never cut a deal that good again: the whole of Manhattan purchased from the original Indian inhabitants for $24.
September 10, 2009
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It's easy to find the Dutch booths at the big design shows. Just follow
the smirks. At least that's what people are fond of saying about them.
The American design press often describes the Dutch design community as
a bunch of happy pranksters, but that description is too glib and not
entirely accurate.
September 10, 2009
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At least
something's getting built at the lower tip of Manhattan. To mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival in Manhattan, Prince Willem-Alexander
of the Netherlands today unveiled an unfinished pavilion at Battery
Park, where the Dutch established the colony of New Amsterdam (though
you're more likely to know the spot as the entrance to the Staten
Island ferry terminal.)
September 10, 2009
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Sure, tulips, clogs and Gouda cheese rank as top Dutch treats. But
they're not the only delights a Dutch-themed festival might bring. And no, we're not talking Amsterdam coffeehouses.
September 10, 2009
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This week and next, New York City will celebrate the 400th anniversary
of the arrival of the Dutch in New York Harbor. What would the city
look like if the Dutch had never left?
September 10, 2009
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When major ice sheets thaw, they release enough fresh water to
disrupt ocean currents world-wide and make the planet wobble with the
uneven weight of so much meltwater on the move. Studying these effects
more closely, scientists are discovering local variations in rising sea
levels -- and some signs pointing to higher seas around metropolitan
New York.
September 10, 2009
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The 1626 letter known as New York's "birth certificate" is among dozens
of rare documents and images going on display Sunday as part of an
exhibit on the development of New Amsterdam.
September 10, 2009
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Dust off those wooden shoes, for our Dutch overlords have returned to
claim what is rightfully theirs. Yeah right, like we will ever spell
"Brooklyn" the way it was meant to be—Breuklyn—again. Instead, the
Dutch (we are really tempted to called them the "Hollandaise") will be
welcomed back to the land they lost, aka New York City, for a week of
activities that embrace their old connections to Manhattan.
September 10, 2009
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Remember remember the month of September. So says a
smart tribute in today’s
New York Times,
pairing the eighth anniversary of 9/11 and the four-hundredth
anniversary of Dutch explorer Henry Hudson’s first voyage, on 9/12,
into what would become New York Harbor.
September 10, 2009
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The Dutch brought the weather with them last night to the opening of the
New Island Festival,
a massive, multi-disciplinary arts event that runs through the end of
next weekend. Weather on the island was cool and damp, but the periods
of light rain only enhanced the spirit of festive, Autumnal, colonial
isolation.
September 10, 2009
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It’s always nice to imagine what the Dutch would have made of this
island city if they’d managed to hold onto it for a few hundred more
years: cross-town canals, polder parties, bicycle parties, multi-level
windmills, clog chic, blonde hair, mayonnaise served on fries. But
there was a hint of what might have been, unveiled this week at Peter
Minuit Plaza in Battery Park, near the Staten Island Ferry terminal.
September 09, 2009
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Four hundred years after Henry Hudson sailed down the river that now
bears his name, the Dutch are returning with a vengeance -- with a
lavish arts festival on Governors Island, a five-minute ferry ride from
lower Manhattan. Today through Sunday and again Sept. 17-20,
the New Island Festival will transform the former military base into an
outdoor playground of theater, art, music, food, dance and some events
-- a man walking on water, a cow jumping through a hoop -- that simply
defy categorization.
September 09, 2009
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Four hundred years ago Henry Hudson and his Dutch ship, the Halve Maen
("Half Moon") arrived at what is now New York Harbor. This week, from
September 8-13, NY400 celebrates the anniversary of Henry Hudson's
historic voyage with a sea of events culminating in NY Harbor Day on
Sunday, September 13th. NY400 Week gives New Yorkers a chance to
immerse themselves in Dutch culture, New York history and lots of fun
stuff long the way. Here are some highlights
September 09, 2009
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The New Island Festival, celebrating Dutch performance and the 400th
anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage into New York Harbor,
launches on Governor's Island Sept. 10.
September 09, 2009
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the New Amsterdam Pavilion by dutch designers
UNStudio opens today in Battery Park, New York.
Related: see our previous story about the project.
September 09, 2009
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As that “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” song goes, “New York was once
New Amsterdam”; now, the Netherlands and New York honor that connection
with a plethora of arts and culture offerings, many of which also
celebrate Henry Hudson’s exploration of the river that bears his name.
September 09, 2009
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NY 400 Week, a.k.a “Holland on the Hudson,” is in motion which means a
flotilla of boats and events, many of which are free, descending upon
New York harbor. It all commemorates the 400
th anniversary of Dutch explorer Henry Hudson’s inaugural sail up the river which bears his name.
NY
400 isn’t just a quiet celebration of the first sailing, it is an
expansive series of events meant to celebrate the Dutch-New York
connection
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How time passes! (It’s the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson’s arrival.) Rejoice in 400 years of Netherlander camaraderie by touring
17th-century New Amsterdam housing at Bowling Green Park, boarding
replica ships from the 1600s docked on Manhattan’s southern tip, and
attending a Harbor Day celebration to get you back on shore.
September 09, 2009
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In a Dutch treat for New York architecture fans, Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands officially presented UNStudio's New Amsterdam Pavilion to the city yesterday during a ceremony presided over by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
September 09, 2009
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It is 8:30am on Governors Island and silence hangs in the air. Across
the sun-dappled harbor, the skyline of Manhattan's financial district
looms sharp and sleek. To the southwest, the Statue of Liberty smiles
benevolently upon a passing Staten Island ferry, while Ellis Island's
Main Building sits confidently on the western horizon.
September 09, 2009
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You could easily win "best-dressed" in one of these outfits, but you'd
want to stay out of the wilting sun. Going to the loo might be a little
tricky as well. But no matter. The flower-dress creations of designers
Niels van Eijk and
Miriam van der Lubbe are a sight to behold. So if you're ready to do some beholding, check out the their work today at the brand-spanking
New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, at Battery Park. The dress designs, which are nothing short of glorious, have been brought to life by flower arranger
Florian Seyd.
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"In New York, it isn't dumb anymore to critique luxury," says Renny
Ramakers, as she hustles across a lawn on Governor's Island, where this
weekend and next, dozens of Dutch designers will descend for a
brain-tickling design exhibition, "Pioneers of Change." Curated by Ramakers, the co-founder of the pre-eminent Dutch design collective, Droog, the exhibit is part of NY400, a series of events around town sponsored by the Netherlands.
September 09, 2009
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On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic
voyage from the Netherlands to New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
has sent The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by the Dutch
artist Johannes Vermeer (1632—1675), to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
September 09, 2009
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She's been to America before, for the 1939 World's Fair, but not until today has "The Milkmaid" come to Manhattan. As part of the Holland-daze gripping the city, 400 years after Henry
Hudson's voyage, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has lent the Metropolitan
Museum of Art one of its most beloved works: this painting by
17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
September 09, 2009
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Yesterday, the Netherlands's
Prince of Orange and
Princess Maxima joined New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to unveil the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion in Battery Park, on the southern tip of Manhattan.
September 09, 2009
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NY400 Week, a.k.a “Holland on the Hudson,” is in motion which means a
flotilla of boats and events, many of which are free, are descending
upon New York harbor. It all commemorates the 400
th anniversary of Dutch explorer Henry Hudson’s inaugural sail up the river which bears his name.
September 09, 2009
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A symbol of Dutch-American friendship, this pavilion in front of the
Staten Island Ferry Terminal, top right, opened briefly Wednesday for a
ceremony in honor of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery
of New York.
September 09, 2009
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At today's NYSE Closing Gong -- yes, that's
gong, not bell --
our sister exchange in Amsterdam will help us celebrate "NY 400 Week,"
marking four centuries of friendship between The Netherlands and the
United States. Frans Timmermans, Minister of European Affairs for the
Netherlands, will do the honors
September 09, 2009
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In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage to the
New World, the city's been doing all sorts of Dutch-themed things this
week, including building New Amsterdam
Village, a replica of a Dutch village, in Bowling Green Park.
September 08, 2009
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Think of the immigrants of New York City, and you might imagine the
Jews of Eastern Europe, the Irish and Italians, maybe the Dominicans,
the Bangladeshis, the Senegalese. Not so much the Dutch.
September 08, 2009
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It's a big, big day for the Dutch here in New York, as the NY400 Week festivities kick off with the unveiling of the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion at the Battery, a "permanent gift from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the people of New York." The fresh-off-the-plane Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima of The Netherlands are joining Mayor Bloomberg and other officials this morning to dedicate the fiberglass Pavilion, which will serve as a visitors' center.
September 08, 2009
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In 1609 Henry Hudson and his Dutch ship,
the Half Moon, arrived in what is today New York Harbor. NY400 Week
celebrates the event, and four centuries of Dutch-American friendship.
Some weekend highlights.
September 08, 2009
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Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, wife of Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince of Orange, baptized Holland's newest tulip today at a ceremony in Manhattan's Battery Park. On the site of the fort that once guarded the young colony of New Amsterdam, the Dutch royal couple joined a host of dignitaries for the official naming ceremony for Tulipa 'Henry Hudson'.
September 08, 2009
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In addition to Fashion Week and the MTV Video Music Awards, Manhattan
has another big event on the calendar. Yesterday morning aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Dutch crown Prince Willem-Alexander, and his wife, Princess Maxima,
launched "NY400," a weeklong series of public events and promotions to
commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in New York
Harbor and the city's Dutch roots.
September 08, 2009
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he true date of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s legendary
exploration is nearly upon us, and another fleet of Dutch ships is on
the way to commemorate it. This time, instead of the tall ships,
a flotilla of flat-bottomed boats is parading up the Hudson River under
the auspices of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands’
“NY400” project in partnership with the Dutch Stichting ter Promotie
van het Traditional Schip — the Foundation to Promote Traditional Ships.
September 08, 2009
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The Dutch government has poured about $10 million into the week long celebration of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York Harbor 400 years ago, generously peppering the activities with reminders of the city’s origins as the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. As part of that effort the government has erected an odd, undulating $2.3 million fiberglass structure in Battery Park that has been compared to the petals of a flower and the blades of a windmill.
September 08, 2009
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Photographers scramble as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Crown
Princess Maxima and Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands,
and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, from left, walk on the Intrepid
Sea, Air and Space Museum on Sept. 8, 2009, in New York. The royals are
in town to participate in the festivities celebrating the 400th
anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in New York Harbor in September
1609.
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From a revolution on the Hudson River to an evolution in Afghanistan, the United States and the Netherlands are allies. "We
believe in democracy, and we believe in human rights and human dignity
for all," said Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, 42, during a whirlwind
visit to the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday. "We cherish these
values," he said. "It puts us in a great position to meet the
challenges of this new century in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
September 08, 2009
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton, joined by Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C.
Lieber, NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta and Department of
Transportation Commissioner Jeanette Sadik-Kahn, welcomed their Royal
Highnesses Prince Willem-Alexander, the Prince of Orange, and Princess
Maxima of the Netherlands to New York City to kick off NY400 Week, a
weeklong celebration to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's
arrival at what is now New York Harbor in September 1609
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In 1993, Andrew Moskos, an aspiring comedian from Chicago, was
traveling in Amsterdam and hanging out in a cannabis coffee shop when
he and a friend came up with what he describes as “the best stoner
idea, ever.” The plan was to relocate to the Dutch capital and start a
Second City-style improv comedy troupe.
September 08, 2009
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Members of Dutch royalty were among the dignitaries marking the 400th
anniversary Tuesday of Henry Hudson's historic voyage. A replica of
Hudson's ship, the Half Moon, sailed past New York City while a Dutch
naval ship blasted a 21-gun salute.
September 08, 2009
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The
New Island Festival will
offer an exciting smorgasboard of happenings on New York City’s
Governors Island from September 10–13 and again from September 17–20.
Come discover provocative theatre, stunning site-specific performance,
dazzling visual arts and exhilarating DJ sets, all performed by
world-class Dutch performers.
September 08, 2009
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies have
released a first-of-its-kind smart growth guide that will help coastal
and waterfront communities tackle threats from sea level rise, stronger
hurricanes, flooding and other challenges.
September 08, 2009
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New York is celebrating the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609 and the founding of the Dutch town in1626, which was called New Amsterdam.
While it was part of New Netherlands, it was not just a Dutch town, as
it was home to settlers from many countries, and people from other
colonies who were in search of opportunity. This diversity of languages
and cultures which has always been the strength and fun of New York as a city was present from its very beginnings.
September 08, 2009
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg welcomed Dutch royalty to the 'Big Apple' on Tuesday,
commemorating Henry Hudson's voyage to the new world four centuries
ago. They watched a flotilla of ships sail past, including a replica of
Hudson's ship, while a Dutch naval ship offered a 21-gun salute.
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NY400 festivities continued today as the
Dutch Crown Princely couple continue
to tour their $24 dollar investment (the cost of Manhattan 400 years
ago). Princess Maxima baptized Holland’s new tulip as the ‘Henry
Hudson’ (The Netherlands is home to the tulip).
September 08, 2009
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UNStudio’s
New Amsterdam Pavilion unveiled today in Battery Park, New York.
The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship.
September 08, 2009
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Chinese New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) on the NY400 Week Welcoming Ceremony, September 8, 2009
September 08, 2009
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The captain of a replica of the ship Henry Hudson
sailed 400 years ago has been awarded a special honor from the queen of
the Netherlands.
September 07, 2009
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New York - Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, visited on Tuesday the US Military Academy
at West Point on the Hudson River, as part of celebrations marking the
400th anniversary of the river's discovery by their compatriot. The
royal couple were welcomed in New York City by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg before heading to West Point, news reports said.
September 07, 2009
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WEST POINT, N.Y. — Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess
Maxima, got a rousing welcome from West Point cadets as they visited
the U.S. Military Academy for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's
voyage.
September 07, 2009
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NEW YORK — Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima of the
Netherlands joined celebrations Tuesday in New York to mark the 400th
anniversary of explorer Henry Hudson's arrival in Manhattan aboard a
Dutch ship.
September 07, 2009
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All of this could have been his. But when Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange, the presumptive
next king of the Netherlands, strode the warship deck on Tuesday to
celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival at New York
Harbor and the subsequent founding of the Dutch colony of New
Amsterdam, he was about 345 years too late to stake a territorial claim.
September 07, 2009
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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Dutch Prince
Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, got a rousing welcome
from West Point cadets as they visited the U.S. Military Academy for
the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage.
September 07, 2009
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Back in January, NYCGo, New York's #1 fan, announced a year's worth of fun to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson
paddling up the river that would later bear his name. Well, the
culmination of that very flammable birthday party has arrived, and NY400 Week: Holland on the Hudson offers something for tourists and locals alike.
September 07, 2009
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ALBANY -- The City of Albany will see
some royal visitors Tuesday. Governor Paterson will welcome Prince
Willem Alexander and Princess Maxima of the Netherlands.The
royal couple is in the area to highlight the history between the
Netherlands and Albany, which celebrates its 400th anniversary this
year.
September 07, 2009
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It has been 400 years since Henry Hudson explored the river that now bears his name. On Tuesday, an international flotilla of ships sailed into New York
Harbor to launch a week-long anniversary celebration of the explorer's
arrival in 1609. It is quite a history lesson for so many people in our area.
September 07, 2009
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Henry Hudson arrived in New York Harbor in 1609, and that visit is being celebrated in the city which began as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam. The world traveled by sea in the early years of colonization, so there will be historic ships on display during these commemorative events, including naval vessels, yachts and sailing races in the harbor.
September 07, 2009
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Today's visit by Dutch Crown Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander, and
his wife, Princess Maxima, is not open to the public, but interested
onlookers can see their comings and goings.
September 07, 2009
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If you want to see the Dutch royal couple in Albany today head to the State Museum. Crown Prince of Orange, Willem-Alexander, and his wife, Princess Maxima, will visit the museum between 4:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
September 07, 2009
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To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage in September 1609, a week-long joint American-Dutch celebration, NY400, will include the sailing of an international fleet of ships into the New York Harbor on Tuesday.
September 07, 2009
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To celebrate of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in what
is now NYC, NY400 Week was created. The Dutch have again arrived in New
York, but this time it is Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Orange
and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands that have come to visit.
September 07, 2009
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The city welcomed back the Dutch this morning, four centuries after
Henry Hudson's historic trip along the river that would eventually bear
his name. A 21-gun salute aboard a Dutch Naval ship helped kick off NY400 Week, which marks the 400th anniversary of Hudson's journey.
September 07, 2009
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The Dutch invaded New York again Tuesday - 400 years and a 21-gun salute after Henry Hudson did it the first time.
Secretary of State Clinton and Mayor Bloomberg welcomed the Dutch royal family to New York, kicking off a six-day celebration marking the 400th anniversary of the voyage up what was called North River, before it was renamed for Hudson.
September 07, 2009
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New York welcomed back Dutch royalty today in the form of Crown Prince
Willem-Alexander and Crown Princess Maxima. As reported last week, the
couple is in New York from September 8-13th for NY400 celebrations.
This event commemorates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival
in Manhattan aboard a Dutch ship.
September 07, 2009
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WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife,
Princess Maxima, met dignitaries up and down the Hudson River, lunched
with military cadets and lauded their country's long friendship with
the United States as they marked the 400th anniversary of Henry
Hudson's historic voyage.
September 07, 2009
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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife,
Princess Maxima, met dignitaries up and down the Hudson River, lunched
with military cadets and lauded their country's long friendship with
the United States as they marked the 400th anniversary of Henry
Hudson's historic voyage.
September 07, 2009
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Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, got a
rousing welcome from West Point cadets as they visited the U.S.
Military Academy for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage.
September 07, 2009
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Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, got a
rousing welcome from West Point cadets as they visited the U.S.
Military Academy for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage.
September 07, 2009
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Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, got a rousing welcome from West Point cadets as they visited the U.S. Military Academy for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage.
September 07, 2009
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Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife,
Princess Maxima, got a rousing welcome from West Point cadets as they
visited the U.S. Military Academy for the 400th anniversary of Henry
Hudson's voyage.
September 07, 2009
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A Dutch prince and princess are traveling up the Hudson River to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage. Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince of Orange and his
wife, Princess Maxima, will begin Tuesday with a visit to the Intrepid,
a World War II aircraft carrier-turned-museum docked on Manhattan's
West Side.
September 07, 2009
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Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, met
dignitaries up and down the Hudson River, lunched with military cadets
and lauded their country's long friendship with the United States as
they marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage.
September 07, 2009
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New York City is celebrated in song, books,
movies and TV. It was a constant lover in "Sex and the City," the
setting for "Seinfeld" and the destination for millions each year.
Which is why branding the city takes savvy and state-of-the-art
slickness. That job belongs to NYC & Company and their latest media
push is NY400 Week, which celebrates the 400th anniversary of Henry
Hudson's arrival and Dutch contributions to New York.
September 07, 2009
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Today, the Museum of American Finance opened "Actiёn Handel: Early Dutch Finance and the Founding of America," an exhibit showcasing the relationship between early Dutch finance and the United States. On display are financial documents from Amsterdam, including the oldest known share certificate, which was issued by the Dutch East India Company in 1606.
September 07, 2009
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On the southern tip of Manhattan, near where Henry Hudson’s Dutch ship, the Half Moon, dropped anchor 400 years ago, is a pavilion funded by the Netherlands that sits on Battery Park, a neglected treasure.
September 07, 2009
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Chinese New Tang Dynasty Television interviews Dutch Consul-General Scheltema.
September 07, 2009
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The Dutch descended upon New York on Tuesday -- 400 years after their
first monumental voyage and this time with much more style in tow,
thanks to Dutch Crown Princess Maxima. Maxima stood out in a vibrant
red ruffled suit and cap alongside her husband, Mayor Bloomberg and
Hillary Clinton, who were all clad in black.
September 07, 2009
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The big presentation unveiling the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion, a much-needed and hotly-anticipated visitors' center down at the southern tip of Manhattan that couples Dutch practicality with a bit of whimsy, is set for tomorrow and crews are racing to get it ready. Brought to us by archi-meester Ben van Berkel and his UNStudio gang, the fiberglass-covered wood and fritted-glass pavilion is shaped like the opening petals of a flower (and akin to the fins of windmill—those Dutch!).
September 07, 2009
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Mayor Bloomberg and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
will welcome
HRH Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange and HRH Princess Máxima of
the Netherlands to New York tomorrow to officially launch
NY400 Week.
September 07, 2009
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Travel back in time to the days when New York was New Amsterdam at this
mash-up of a historic exhibit and an open-air market. Replicas of 12
traditional Dutch houses will be erected (as will a full-size
windmill), while a model of a modern greenhouse will also be on view.
You can also snack on stroopwafel (cookies), take in performances by
Dutch musicians or watch a glassblowing demonstration. Just like in ye
olde days.
September 06, 2009
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Henry Hudson was English, but he came here while working for the Dutch
East India Company. The first Dutch settlers in the area initially set
up camp on what is now Governors Island, so it’s fitting that the New
Island Festival, a gathering of Dutch artists in celebration of the
quadricentennial, takes place there.
September 06, 2009
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“NY400 Week” celebrates four hundred years of friendship between New
York and the Netherlands. Timed to celebrate the quadricentennial of
the arrival of Henry Hudson, in September of 1609, it begins Sept. 8
and features many events. Highlights include the following. A replica
of New Amsterdam housing is set up at Bowling Green Park, in lower
Manhattan. Free bikes are available there to ride around town.
September 06, 2009
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An international flotilla of ships,
including a replica of Henry Hudson's Half Moon, will sail into New
York Harbor Tuesday, launching a weeklong 400th anniversary celebration
of the explorer's arrival in September 1609.
September 06, 2009
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Giovanni de Verrazano was said to be the first European to see the
river. But it was Englishman Henry Hudson, sailing for the Dutch, who
was the first European to explore it.
September 06, 2009
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The 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York Harbor in 1609 will be celebrated with everything Dutch, including replica ships, bicycle rides, art and history museum displays, and visiting royalty from Holland.
September 06, 2009
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Russell Shorto, who researched much of his acclaimed history "The
Island at the Center of the World" at the State Library, has been given
an award that amounts to knighthood by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the
Netherlands.
September 05, 2009
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It was a hot, fair day in September when Henry Hudson and a small crew
of sailors entered New York Harbor. Hudson, an English captain working
for the Dutch, was seeking a route to China. Instead he stumbled on
“Mannahatta” or “The Island of Many Hills” as it was called by the
Lenape Native Americans who lived there.
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In 1611, on his fourth and final expedition to find a shorter passage
from Europe to China, his crew mutinied, tossed him, his son and a few
others into a rowboat without food, and left them to perish in the icy
waters of northern Canada. These days, however, Hudson is getting the royal treatment. He may not
have discovered that elusive trade route to the Orient, but in 1609, he
became the first European to sail up what became the
Hudson River.
September 05, 2009
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NYPD issues advisory warning of 21-gun saluteNEW YORK — Police are
advising New York City residents and workers that a ceremonial 21-gun
salute will be fired on Tuesday, just days before the 8th anniversary
of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.A Dutch naval ship will
fire the salute at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday near the Intrepid Sea, Air &
Space Museum on Pier 86 at West 46th Street and 12 Avenue. It opens a
week of events marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival
in what is now New York Harbor.
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The Dutch lost control of New Amsterdam in 1664, but now the New York 400 celebration—marking
Henry Hudson's 1609 arrival in New York harbor—is giving them an excuse to come back. A
roster of 14 Dutch ad agencies is organizing the inaugural, oddly-named
Amsterdam Right Brainers Convention to coincide with NY400 week. Billed
as a display of Amsterdam's contemporary culture—both mainstream and
alternative—it will feature a party produced by Brooklyn's own cutting
edge
Vice Magazine and present work by Dutch artists and designers.
September 05, 2009
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The official unveiling ceremony of The New Amsterdam Pavilion will take
place on 9 September. Designed by Ben van UNStudio, the New Amsterdam
Plein and Pavilion is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour
of 400 years of friendship.
September 04, 2009
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Break out your wooden shoes, and take a stroll through lower Manhattan
-- where a new New Amsterdam Village yesterday began showcasing
traditional Dutch products and crafts in Bowling Green Park.
September 04, 2009
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Chinese New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) on NY400 Week
September 04, 2009
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ONE hundred years ago, buildings in downtown Peekskill were bathed in
light to commemorate the tricentennial of Henry Hudson’s discovery of
the Hudson River.This week, downtown buildings will be illuminated again as part of the Peekskill Quadricentennial Celebration 2009, a 10-day tribute to the city and the river.
September 04, 2009
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It was on Sept. 6, 1609 — 400 years ago Sunday — when this, the first
recorded murder in what became metropolitan New York, was committed.
Colman was killed only four days after the first Dutch and English
sailors arrived.
September 04, 2009
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Dutch treats of many varieties -- tulips,
windmills and beer -- will sweeten a late-summer Sunday at Snug Harbor
Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. Harbor Day, a citywide festival, blows into town Sept. 13.
September 04, 2009
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Just as a river is considered the lifeblood of any city, within the murky waters of the Hudson flows the history of New York - the great metropolis that began as a little Dutch trading colony named Nieuw Amsterdam.
September 04, 2009
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Yesterday, New Amsterdam Village, the miniature Dutch village, opened up in Bowling Green Park as part of the ongoing festivities surrounding the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival.
Dutch ambassador to the United States Renée Jones-Bos and Parks
Commissioner Adrian Benepe made the village's opening formal by cutting
a Gouda cheese!
September 04, 2009
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The NYPD is advising city residents and workers about a ceremonial 21 gun salute taking place Tuesday morning. A Dutch naval ship will fire the salute at 9:15 a.m. near the Intrepid Museum at 46th Street and 12th Avenue. Police say people in the area will hear the guns being fired.The salute will open a weeklong celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival to New York Harbor.
September 04, 2009
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Hungry for herring? Fill up on Holland’s favorite fish, plus
stroopwafels, cheese and more at Bowling Green Park, transformed for
the moment into New Amsterdam village as part of NY400 Week. Stroll
alongside traditionally costumed Dutch characters by canal houses and a
windmill, watch glass-blowers, hear street-organ music and play games;
while wooden shoe-making will be demonstrated, we recommend more
comfortable footwear.
September 04, 2009
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GO DUTCH: Kicking off on Saturday and running through September 20, 50
restaurants (including Delmonico’s, Elizabeth, and Il Buco) will offer
$24 meals as part of the Taste of NiEuW
Amsterdam food fest (because $24 converts to about 60 Dutch guilders, a.k.a. Manhattan’s initial purchasing price). Head
here for participating restaurants.
September 04, 2009
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Like so many New Yorkers I’ve never
been to Governors Island though it lies alluringly close to the
southern tip of Manhattan -- about 800 yards. Finally, after years of just staring at the thing whenever
I biked around the edge of Manhattan, I spent a Saturday
afternoon there.
September 03, 2009
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If your image of Holland doesn't extend much beyond tulips, windmills and clogs, the New Island Festval starting Thursday is apt to change that. The event, which arrives in New York direct from Holland, celebrates Dutch music, dance, food, ara and theater and is being staged on Governors Island, just a five-minute ferry ride from downtown. It runs Sept. 10-13 and 17-20.
September 03, 2009
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For the first time in decades, Dutch royalty will visit Albany. But
don't expect Tuesday's visit to stimulate any similarly seismic changes
for the capital city that a 1959 visit by Queen Beatrix of the
Netherlands left in her wake.
September 03, 2009
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These days New York is a (mostly) English-speaking locale, but Dutch
influence is all over the city. It pops in the majority of our boroughs
(Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx), neighborhoods from north to
south (Harlem, Coney Island, Flushing, Bushwick) and in famed street
names (Bowery, Broadway).
September 03, 2009
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New Amsterdam Village officially opens to the public today in Bowling Green Park. The
interactive exhibit which celebrates New York's heritage features 12
traditional Dutch houses, a windmill, and a contemporary Dutch
greenhouse.
September 03, 2009
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Exactly 400 years ago this month, Captain Henry Hudson sailed past a
little island known as Manna-hata and thought it would make a nice spot
for his employers, the Dutch East India Company, to set up shop. And
with all the Dutch arts and cultural events opening next week to
celebrate Hudson’s voyage, you’d think the city was still called New
Amsterdam.
September 03, 2009
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This week Jenny 8. Lee and the City Room gang met with Dutch ambassador
Renée Jones-Bos and consulate general Hugo Gajus Scheltema to talk
about the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage up our river. (The
pair was promoting NY400 Week, a series of celebrations coming up to mark the quadracentennial.)
September 03, 2009
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WCBS Reporter Monica Miller heads
down to Manhattan's Bowling Green section where the Dutch government
joins New York City officials in celebrating their shared heritage
since Henry Hudson mistakenly discovered the island 400 years ago. Officials didn't go with a traditional ribbon-cutting on opening day of New Amsterdam village, but instead a literal cutting of the cheese. A 22-pound Gouda to be exact.
September 03, 2009
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As a heads-up to the city (since government actions in Manhattan sometimes get misinterpreted) … Sometime between 9 and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, the Dutch naval ship HMNLS Tromp will offer a 21-gun salute as part of a kickoff for a
weeklong series of events celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in what is now New York City. (Yes, these Dutch-New York friendship events have been dribbling out all year, but this is the big push.)
September 03, 2009
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Four hundred years ago, Dutch explorers arrived at the mouth of what is
now New York State's aquatic artery. Hannah Waldram sums it all up
September 03, 2009
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Taking a trip this weekend? How about going back in time 400 years?
That's the idea anyway at the New Amsterdam Village in Bowling Green
Park in honor of Henry Hudson's New York landing there 400 years ago.
There's cheese and herring tasting, glass blowing, clog wearing, and a
replica of the boat Henry Hudson sailed to New York. Caroline Feitel
works for the Netherlands Embassy in D.C. and says the village is
pretty authentic.
September 03, 2009
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It's 400 years ago this week. Anchored in the middle of the wide river and riding high on the
water is a three-masted, 80-ton ship, a speedy but shallow-bottom
vessel. It is considered small for the voyage of exploration it taken
since leaving Holland on April 6, 1609.
September 03, 2009
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In September of 1609--11 years before the Mayflower landed--an English
explorer named Henry Hudson sailed into New York Bay and up a river
that would later be named after him. To celebrate the 400th anniversary
of Hudson's voyage, LIFE searched its archives for the best shots of
the river.
September 03, 2009
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Picture the scene. It's 400 years ago this week. Anchored in the middle of the wide river and riding high on the
water is a three-masted, 80-ton ship, a speedy but shallow-bottom
vessel. It is considered small for the voyage of exploration it taken
since leaving Holland on April 6, 1609. The ship is the Half Moon and its captain, Englishman Henry Hudson,
is sailing for the Dutch government in an attempt to find the elusive
Northwest Passage to the Orient.
September 03, 2009
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NEW YORK — H2O9
Forum, a conference exploring water sustainability in megacities in The
Netherlands and the New York/New Jersey metropolitan region, is
scheduled to be held September 9-10 at the Liberty Science Center in
Jersey City, NJ, across New York Harbor from the Statue of Liberty.
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The Dutch have landed in Manhattan — Again.
It was 400
years ago when they first arrived in New York harbor, and eventually
established New Amsterdam. To celebrate the anniversary, the Dutch
government has snuck back in and planted a windmill and village on the
site of their former colony; add tiny canal houses and hundreds of
wooden shoes.
September 03, 2009
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The Dutch have landed in Manhattan — Again.
It was 400 years
ago when they first arrived in New York harbor, and eventually
established New Amsterdam. To celebrate the anniversary, the Dutch
government has snuck back in and planted a windmill and village on the
site of their former colony; add tiny canal houses and hundreds of
wooden shoes.
September 02, 2009
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Henry Hudson, an English explorer under contract to the Dutch, sailed into New York's Upper Bay 400 years ago today -- setting in motion mighty historical forces that led directly to the magnificent metropolis that exists today.
September 02, 2009
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Droog takes over Governor's Island. To mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival in New York, the Dutch design collective Droog will stage a 10-day festival of design, fashion and architecture on Governor's Island, a decommissioned Coast Guard station in New York Harbor.
September 02, 2009
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The New Amsterdam Village, built as part of the NY400 Festival commemorating Henry Hudson’s arrival to New York City, will open this Friday at noon. The village at the foot of Broadway was designed to give New Yorkers a sample of Dutch culture, and combines traditional crafts, foods, and culture with modern technology and advances in agricultural practices.
September 02, 2009
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For those who don’t know the work of Charlotte Dumas, a small sampling of her photos is on view in
Dutch Seen, a group show of Dutch photographers currently at the Museum of the City of New York, curated by Kathy Ryan.
September 01, 2009
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Those likable Dutch, to celebrate the quadricentennial of Hudson's arrival in New York harbor in 1609, are busy right now building a replica colonial village at Bowling Green. It's part of the NY400 Week celebration, which officially kicks off Tuesday September 8th.
September 01, 2009
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From Friday through September 14, celebrate 400 years of Dutch-American relations at the New Amsterdam Village in Bowling Green Park. And, in case you're wondering what to eat as you explore the canal houses, life-size windmill, and state-of-the-art demonstration greenhouse, the van Hoeck brothers have you covered.
September 01, 2009
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(New York) - The Dutch organization Miles4Justice
will sail a yacht in honor of Human Rights Watch into New York Bay on
September 8, 2009, concluding a 1,000-mile journey as part of the NY400 - Holland on the Hudson celebration.
August 31, 2009
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TO celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River on the Half Moon (replica, left), a model of a colonial Dutch village will be created in Bowling Green Park, Broadway and Whitehall Streets, from Sept. 4 to 14.
August 30, 2009
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The pavilion’s opening is just around the corner. The official unveiling—with the Netherlands’ Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Màxima in attendance—takes place next Wednesday, September 9, as part of a six-day festival that will include exhibitions, a sailing race, free bike rentals, Dutch delicacies, and more.
August 30, 2009
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ABSTRACT: OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about Governors Island. Writer gives a brief history of the island, which was called Nutten Island by the Dutch and was, possibly, home to Jan Rodrigues, the first non-native person to live in New York without the support of a ship. The island was purchased from the natives in 1637.
August 30, 2009
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This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten
writes about the redevelopment of Governors Island, in New York Harbor. In this video, Paumgarten tours the island with Leslie Koch, the president of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, who explains how this former military base is being converted into parks and other public spaces.
August 27, 2009
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I NEVER thought much about the Hudson River. It was merely that watery western terminus
of Manhattan streets; a place where bodies sometimes floated up and
jetliners crashed safely; that thing you had to cross to get to New
Jersey. But one recent Saturday, something happened to make me rethink the river: I tasted it.
August 26, 2009
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That $2.25 subway fare could take you farther than you think. Try a ride back in time to the 1600s.
If you believe in this sign, that is. Spotted on Sunday in the Fulton Street station, on the 2/3 platform,
the sign refers to the original Dutch name for Brooklyn. Named after a
town in The Netherlands, the Village of Breuckelen was one of the first
municipalities in New York State and was founded by the Dutch West
India Company in the 1640s.
August 25, 2009
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The NY400 celebration of Henry Hudson's discovery of New York is unveiling a "Dutch treat" for New Yorkers next month. Bowling Green Park in Lower Manhattan will be turned into a Dutch village in early September, giving New Yorkers a taste of what the Netherlands and the Dutch agri-food sector have to offer. Starting September 4, the 10-day traveling exhibit celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of the Dutch with a theme of "innovation through tradition."
August 23, 2009
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Near the tip of Manhattan, just outside the entrance to the Staten Island Ferry and Battery Park, the Netherlands has donated a $2.4m (€1.7m) gift to New York celebrating the 400-year anniversary of the Dutch connection to the US. The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, designed by Ben van Berkel of UN Studio, functions as a shelter for food and information and the main attraction in a very active transit hub, but equally importantly as an abstract symbol of Dutch culture.
August 19, 2009
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A festival of Dutch design, fashion and architecture on New York's Governors Island to celebrate a 400-year Dutch-American friendship. Conceived and curated by Renny Ramakers, co-founder and director of Droog, as part of the NY400 week celebrations, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch to New York.
August 18, 2009
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It's the 400 year anniversary of the arrival of the Dutch in New York. Given the strength of Dutch design, it's no surprise that this is being celebrated by designers in NYC, first by Jan Habraken and Alissa Melka-Teichrow's exhibition 400 Years Later (covered by our video crew at ICFF in May) and now with Pioneers of Change, a Dutch design festival that will take over Governer's Island for two weekends this September.
August 17, 2009
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During the first weekend of Fashion Week and the weekend immediately following Fashion Week, the Dutch are celebrating their 400-year-old young friendship with America with some special events on Governors Island, sponsored by Droog. You'll find a pop-up shop featuring Dutch designs for under $100 and Amsterdam fashion collective Painted dressing a house with the help of New York lace-makers.
August 13, 2009
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Over 150 Dutch artists will perform during the festival that is presented as part of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage into New York Harbor and up the river that now bears his name. The Festival, a collection of free and ticketed events, runs two extended September weekends (Sept. 10-13 and 17-20).
August 13, 2009
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New York City’s birth certificate arrived Friday from Amsterdam, only the third time it has left the Netherlands in nearly four centuries. The worn 1626 handwritten document signed by a Dutch merchant will be on display, along with other 17th-century artifacts, from Sept. 12 to Jan. 3 at the South Street Seaport Museum in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage here.
August 12, 2009
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The New Island Festival, the arts celebration that will take place at Governors Island next month, has released the first details of its events, and it’s a little wacky. (For starters, you might end up with performers on your dinner table.)
August 12, 2009
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NEW YORK — Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "The Milkmaid" is coming to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art for a special exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch artist. The exhibition opens Sept. 10 and runs until Nov. 29. It will be the first time in 70 years that the painting will be seen in the United States. It was last exhibited at the 1939 World's Fair.
August 11, 2009
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ohannes Vermeer's masterpiece "The Milkmaid" is coming to New York
City's Metropolitan Museum of Art for a special exhibition on the
17th-century Dutch artist. The exhibition opens Sept. 10 and runs
until Nov. 29. It will be the first time in 70 years that the painting
will be seen in the United States. It was last exhibited at the 1939
World's Fair. "The Milkmaid" dates from 1657-58. It shows a milkmaid in a vibrant blue and yellow dress pouring milk from a jug into a bowl.
August 11, 2009
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New Yorkers will have a rare opportunity to see a masterpiece. The
17th century Dutch painting "The Milkmaid" is coming to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time in 70 years, as part of a
special exhibition celebrating the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The exhibit also marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage from the Netherlands to New York.
August 08, 2009
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Yesterday was a gorgeous day to kick off the 2009's season of Summer Streets, the three-Saturday event that closes down a 6.9 mile stretch of roads—along Park Avenue and other connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park—to vehicular traffic. As part of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of the New York, the Dutch consulate's NY400 celebration has 150 orange bikes that bicyclists can rent for free—there's even a photo competition for people to enter and win one of the bikes.
August 08, 2009
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This year's quadricentennial celebration of explorer Henry Hudson's trip up the river that now bears his name on behalf of the Dutch East India Company in 1609 has left the descendents of the region's earliest settlers taking extra pride in their families' roles in American history.
August 05, 2009
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The Dutch controlled Manhattan for only a few decades before the British took over in 1664, but their influence has lingered for centuries. After all, the Netherlands in the 17th century was a cultural melting pot, and the Dutch policy of liberalism, in trade as well as religion, has been seen as a fundamental reason for New York’s cosmopolitanism and economic success.
August 03, 2009
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The Dutch consulate in New York lent bicycles — part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson — that will be available for rental.
August 02, 2009
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This year's Summer Streets dates approach: as was done last year, on three consecutive Saturdays, August 8, 15, and 22, Park Avenue and some connecting streets will be closed to motorized traffic from Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and citizens encouraged to walk, bike, rollerblade, or whatever. Transportation Alternatives will lead "feeder rides" to Park Avenue from Grand Army Plaza, Woodlawn, Inwood, and Astoria Park, and makers of the Dutch NY400 bikes will loan them out onsite.
August 01, 2009
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Honoring people and events in the Dutch royal family’s history has a long tradition in the Netherlands. In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the waterway that would eventually bear his name. The explorer called it “de Maurits Rivier” after the reigning prince of Orange-Nassau. Maurits (r. 1584-1625) was the successor of William the Silent (r. 1579-1584), founder of the Dutch royal house. Members of his dynasty have played an important role in Holland’s affairs of state since before the establishment of New Amsterdam in 1625.
August 01, 2009
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Five New Yorkers have married their Dutch partners during Amsterdam's Gay Pride festival, with the Dutch city's mayor presiding over the ceremony. The gay, lesbian and transgender couples who wed Saturday challenged the United States to legalize gay marriage. The Netherlands began allowing same-sex marriages in 2001. The marriages were part of celebrations of the 400th anniversary of New York-Netherlands ties.
July 31, 2009
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AMSTERDAM - The mayor of Amsterdam married five American-Dutch gay couples on Saturday in an implicit criticism of the lack of same-sex marriage in many U.S. states.
July 31, 2009
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The mayor of Amsterdam presided over the weddings of five American-Dutch gay, lesbian and transgender couples on a boat during the city's Gay Pride festival Saturday, challenging the United States to legalize gay marriage, as well. Mayor Job Cohen also performed the first weddings in the Netherlands after the country began allowing same-sex marriages in 2001.
July 30, 2009
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If the excitement of last month’s NYC Pride weekend has worn way off already—and the state of gay marriage in New York is getting you down—why not consider a jet-setting jaunt to the Netherlands?
July 28, 2009
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Living with water -- whether it is enduring the wettest month on record in May, experiencing one of the most severe droughts to affect our water supply or preparing for this year's hurricane season -- is something with which Floridians grapple. Storm-water runoff and the intrusion of saltwater into fresh water areas have clearly affected Florida's agriculture industry, water capacity, infrastructure and environmental and ecological landscape.
July 25, 2009
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In 1809, a young Washington Irving published “A History of New York,” a
satirical account of the settlement of New Amsterdam. Manhattanites
knew little of their Dutch founding fathers, and Irving took advantage
of that to create a past that interwove fact and fable; one that
presented an appealing portrait of the Dutch colonists as
pleasure-loving, pipe-smoking burghers who introduced Santa Claus,
doughnuts and diplomacy to America, and let their meandering cows give
shape to the streets of Lower Manhattan.
July 20, 2009
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The Modern’s show “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976,” which opened on Sunday, updates the “Information” show for the information age. It explores the relationship between early Conceptual art and globetrotting, with Amsterdam as a way station. This approach is refreshing, even counterintuitive, because it makes the art seem much less hermetic.
July 16, 2009
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The mesmerizing show currently at the Hudson River Museum explores the Dutch origins of Hudson Valley culture, not just with visual imagery but also through documentation in a companion book. Together they present something that is both enlightening and ambitious, and somewhat rare these days in regional museums: an old-fashioned social history exhibition.
July 16, 2009
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The New York Times' slideshow accompanying its
Art Review of the "Dutch New York" exhibit at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers.
July 15, 2009
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Dutch design firm West 8 will replace world-renowned architect Frank Gehry on a Miami Beach park project, the final component of the massive New World Symphony complex now under construction. The firm was selected from a dozen applicants for the $13 million park project and ratified by the Miami Beach Commission in a 6-1 vote Wednesday.
July 11, 2009
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On display at the Museum of the City of New York, located in the heart of the city’s historic Museum Mile, are several new exhibitions devoted exclusively to celebrating the diverse and ever-evolving transformation of Manhattan.
July 05, 2009
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The Museum of the City of New York celebrates the four-hundredth
anniversary of the settlement of the original Dutch colonies in New
York with an exhibition of works by twelve Dutch photographers, most
residents of the city, who explore our shared history. The result,
“Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered,” is, inevitably perhaps, a
hodgepodge—uneven but vivacious and full of feeling.
July 04, 2009
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From uncharted waters to busy shipping lanes, the Hudson River has undergone some changes in the 400 years since the first Europeans sailed it. We all know the name of that first intrepid captain, but not his face. Martha Teichner explores the mystery.
July 02, 2009
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The Macy's 4th of July Fireworks, which were first held on the Hudson back in 1976, is set with an
American River,
and there will be some tie-ins with Dutch culture in the fireworks
themselves. The fireworks are just one of the highlights of the city's
and Netherlands' festivities Hudson's voyage all year long. Renée
Jones-Bos, the Dutch Ambassador to the United States, told us, "The
Netherlands and New York share a special bond that has been fortified
over time.
July 01, 2009
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On Friday, June 12, several Dutch water experts met with American counterparts during the seminar "Dutch approach to Climate Change: A dialogue with Tampa Bay". Local radio station WMNF was present to cover this event which aired later on that day on 88.5 FM in the Tampa Bay area
July 01, 2009
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When Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor in 1609, he and his crew aboard the Half Moon could never have imagined the nation’s largest fireworks display would honor his trip 400 years later
July 01, 2009
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The river, the valley, the highway — all integral parts of New York’s landscape that share Henry Hudson as their namesake. While most of us are aware of Hudson’s stature as an explorer, maybe we’ve forgotten (or never knew) the events that led to landmarks being christened with his name.
July 01, 2009
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As America celebrates its birthday on July 4th, New York is celebrating the discovery of its Hudson river. The Dutch East India Company hired Henry Hudson, an English explorer, to find a north-west passage to Asia.
July 01, 2009
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“Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture,” an ambitious exhibition at the Hudson River Museum
in Yonkers, reveals how New Yorkers have both embraced and mocked their
Dutch heritage since 1609, when Henry Hudson first sailed up the river
that now bears his name.
June 28, 2009
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Traffic on Park Avenue may seem lighter in August than in much of the year, thanks to the summering habits of its well-to-do residents. But much of the boulevard will have no traffic at all on three Saturdays this summer, as the city shuts down 6.9 miles of Manhattan roadway in a reprise of last year’s Summer Streets program.
June 24, 2009
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Of all things, historical and cultural, that link Amsterdam to New York, there is a particular bond that strikes a personal chord with Carolien Gehrels. Mrs. Gehrels, the deputy mayor of Amsterdam, will be among a delegation of officials from the Netherlands who are flying to New York this weekend to attend gay pride celebrations and to embrace efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in New York State.
June 23, 2009
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This past Tuesday night there was a cocktail party at the Battery Bosque, garden designed by Dutch garden planner Piet Oudolf, for more than 400 guests who gathered for the Battery Conservancy’s 14th Annual Spring Gala. They were celebrating the Battery’s revitalization and they honored the Kingdom of the Netherlands with the Battery Medal for Cultural Heritage.
June 22, 2009
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Come early September, the Hudson River will bristle once again with sails from New York Harbor to Albany in celebration of the actual 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage of discovery that put us on the map.
June 09, 2009
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If you could bring anything from Amsterdam with you to New York, what would it be? Of course you’d choose the New Island Festival, an Americanized version of two annual Dutch arts celebrations that will be coming to Governors Island in September.
June 09, 2009
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Stunning and highly original images of New York and New Yorkers created by 13 prominent Dutch photographers—some internationally renowned (Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Hendrik Kerstens, and Rineke Dijkstra, among others), some young and emerging—will be on view in Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered.
June 08, 2009
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The Dutch city's eco-friendly infrastructure has new power hookups for electric cars, solar panels, and household wind turbines
June 04, 2009
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The Dutch are coming _ again _ and they're bringing more than the $24 they supposedly paid for Manhattan.
June 03, 2009
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WHEN it comes to creating contemporary furniture and housewares, Dutch
designers rank among the most influential — and offbeat — in the world.
In the last decade in particular, they have turned out one quirky,
conceptual hit product after another.
June 01, 2009
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A replica of the first Dutch ship built in America is headed to New York City to take part in an event commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage.The 50-foot Onrust is a full-scale replica of a yacht the Dutch built at Manhattan in 1614 after a fire destroyed their ship.
May 31, 2009
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During a visit to the Netherlands last week, a delegation from Washington and Louisiana heard that Katrina was a wake-up call for the Dutch because it showed them that levees could fail and that there could be catastrophic damages. Partly for this reason, the Dutch government appointed a commission -- the second Delta Commission -- in 2007 with a broad mandate spread over a very long term (2100-2200).
May 29, 2009
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Precisely 400 years ago, in 1609, Henry Hudson rounded Sandy Hook, a
craggy arm of a peninsula reaching out from what became New Jersey
toward Long Island, and nosed his way into New York Harbor. Hudson was
English, too, but through an accident of history his most momentous
voyage would be for the Dutch East India Company.
May 29, 2009
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'Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered' opens at the Museum of the City of New York on June 10th, 2009, and runs through Sept. 13, 2009. It is presented in collaboration with Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.
May 27, 2009
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It could be called a budget blockbuster, although officials at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would certainly not think of their show “Vermeer’s Masterpiece, ‘The Milkmaid’ ” quite that way.
May 26, 2009
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When Hurricane Katrina destroyed Sen. Mary L. Landrieu's home in New Orleans along with thousands of others, she contacted Dutch officials in Washington and the Netherlands for information about dikes and levees.
May 25, 2009
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The U.S.' chief environmental official said Tuesday that America can learn much from the way the Dutch manage water – focusing more on living with it than on trying to control it at every turn.
May 23, 2009
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When explorer Henry Hudson got as far north as he could go on the river that would later bear his name, he didn't stick around long or wander much beyond the riverbank. "They did not venture far from shore," says William "Chip" Reynolds, captain of the Half Moon, a full-scale replica of the ship that Hudson, an Englishman, sailed for the Dutch during his 1609 voyage to the New World.
May 23, 2009
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After Henry Hudson's Half Moon left the river that would later bear his name in 1609, someone else did all the heavy lifting of making Manhattan the financial capital of the world. That would be Dutch traders sailing small ships, such as merchant captain Adriaen Block's Onrust, a 56-foot-long, 29-ton ship.
May 20, 2009
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Looking out over the Hudson River this weekend, for a moment it might seem like 1609.The brightly colored Half Moon, a replica of the 17th-century vessel Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor 400 years ago, docked at Waryas Park Wednesday.
May 14, 2009
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Frans Timmermans writes in the Newsweek : The Limits of 'Live and Let Live', How Muslim immigration is exposing Dutch tolerance (Magazine issue of May 25th, 2009)
May 13, 2009
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In 2009 New York and Amsterdam celebrate the historical link between the two cities. New York began its history as a Dutch trading post at the southern tip of Manhattan. In 2009 it is 400 years since Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan and declared it as an ideal natural harbour. To mark this 400th anniversary,
Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and the Amsterdam City Archives, in cooperation with the John Adams Institute, are organising a photo exhibition about Amsterdam, as seen through the eyes of New York photographers.
May 11, 2009
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Dutch Ambassador to the U.S. Renee Jones-Bos speaks at the Tulip Time Luncheon in Hope College's Dow Center. Tulipalooza begins tonight on the Sixth Street stage with an antique car show and a concert.
Gary Stevens, WHTC/WYVN News
May 09, 2009
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It’s hard to imagine that we owe our fair city — and state — to the insubordinate wanderings of a Brit in the pay of Dutch taskmasters, a sailor chasing mariners’ centuries-old dream of a shorter route to the Orient.
May 07, 2009
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A lot has changed in the century since New York celebrated the
tricentennial of Henry Hudson’s pioneering 1609 voyage up the river
that bears his name.
May 04, 2009
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The Dutch are celebrating … all year long! This year’s “NY400: Holland on the Hudson” celebration pays tribute to the deep-rooted, centuries-old connection between the Netherlands and New York City.
May 02, 2009
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Four hundred years after Henry Hudson sailed his ship Half Moon up a river that would one day bear his name, historians are marking his role in the evolution of a tiny Dutch trading post into a world capital called New York.
May 01, 2009
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For 18 months now I’ve been playing the part of the American in Holland, alternately settling into or bristling against the European way of life. Many of the features of that life are enriching. History echoes from every edifice as you move through your day.
April 29, 2009
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During today’s Queen’s Day celebration in the Netherlands, a serious accident occurred. A vehicle plowed into the audience which resulted in the death of four people and serious injuries to many others. The accident occurred in the vicinity of the Royal Family.
This tragic event has greatly impacted the Royal Family and the Dutch people. As a result all festivities surrounding the Queen and Queen’s Day in the Netherlands are being cancelled. The Netherlands Embassy and Consulates are following suit and cancelling this evening’s receptions as well.
We thank you for your understanding.
April 29, 2009
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Are New Yorkers ready for
the Dutch bicycle? Some, like Club Monaco, see the World War II-era bike as so retro that it’s
become fashion-forward.
April 27, 2009
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Our history was commemorated in an elegant fanfare that began the concert performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Brass Ensemble, a reminder that we were lucky enough to have been founded by the most tolerant people of the early 17th century, the Dutch.
April 26, 2009
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Thursday is Queensday, a national holiday to commemorate the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands, and the biggest party in the country (although the celebration actually starts Wednesday night). If you happen to be in Amsterdam, you’re in for big crowds and plenty of people watching.
April 25, 2009
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SLEEP Assuming that Amsterdam’s rollicking hostel scene isn’t for you, the best bets for cheap accommodation are mostly found outside the old city center. Hotel Linda (Stadhouderskade 130; 31-20-673-8739;
www.hotellinda.nl) is a pleasant spot in the charming Pijp neighborhood. It’s convenient (a number of tram lines are a short walk away) and most of the hotel’s 40 rooms are more spacious than you’d expect. (As with most buildings on Amsterdam’s canals, the stairs are comically steep.) Cost: Prices for a double room start at 150 euros on weekends, but on weekdays are as low as 75 euros
April 23, 2009
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People flying from the Netherlands to the United States will be able to go automatically through passport control from now on. The new FLUX system was introduced at New York's JFK today. Passengers holding US or Dutch passports have to pay 169 euros per year to be able to use FLUX.
April 22, 2009
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Four hundred years after they explored the Hudson River, the Dutch are laying claim once again to their role in the founding of America, as Renee Jones-Bos, the vivacious ambassador of the Netherlands, leads a charm offensive to remind Americans of their Dutch heritage.
April 21, 2009
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The recession can’t stop the flowers from blooming. Not the Park Avenue tulips, anyway.
April 20, 2009
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New York City is constantly being rebuilt, paved over and reinvented, so it's not easy to find remnants of the colony of New Amsterdam 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears his name.
April 19, 2009
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Remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen after their meeting on April 20th in Washington DC.
April 18, 2009
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April 17, 2009
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The modern financial system grows out of a series of innovations in the 17th-century
Netherlands. From the Netherlands, what the English called "Dutch finance" traveled over the English Channel, as the English borrowed Dutch ideas to build a stock market, promote global trade and establish the Bank of England, going on to build a maritime empire of commerce and sea power that dominated the globe until World War II. Dutch finance became "Anglo-Saxon capitalism," but otherwise went on as before.
April 16, 2009
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Had she survived, Miss Frank would still be able to see the horse chestnut tree by which she measured the seasons of life during her two years of hiding from the Nazis, not just behind the building in Amsterdam from which she and her family were taken by the Gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the
Anne Frank Center USA are realized — at 10 sites around this country, including New York City.
April 15, 2009
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It’s a city with over 170 different nationalities and almost half of its people are ethnic minorities. No, it’s not New York. It’s Amsterdam.
April 14, 2009
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Wednesday evening, 15 April, sees the first concert by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in New York. Ninety-five musicians from all around the world, including three Dutch participants.
April 14, 2009
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This new It object is the glossy black Dutch bicycle, its design unchanged since World War II. Increasingly imported to the United States and starting to be seen on the streets of New York (and in the windows of at least one clothing store), it appears to have everything a good craze needs.
April 13, 2009
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On Friday, April 10, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz welcomed Dutch Cabinet Minister for European Affairs and International Cultural Policy, Frans Timmermans, to Brooklyn and presented him with a 'Brooklyn Bridge' and proclamation in recognition of the longstanding relationship between Brooklyn and the Netherlands.
April 09, 2009
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After covering New York for 40 years, I finally saw the city’s original birth certificate last week, in Amsterdam. We live in a world of virtual reality, but here was the real thing, meticulously written in neat script on a single page of cotton rag paper and hanging right around the corner from a Rembrandt.
April 09, 2009
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Dutch European Affairs Minister Frans Timmermans tells MarketWatch's Polya Lesova a rebound in global trade is key to helping the country's economy resist a deeper recession.
April 08, 2009
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Dutch Cabinet Minister Francis Timmermans and an entourage of officials met with 35 local Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders at the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the country.
April 07, 2009
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Dutch officials came to Dearborn today to discern why Muslims are more accepted in the United States than in The Netherlands. Dutch Cabinet Minister Francis Timmermans and an entourage of officials met with 35 local Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders at the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the country.
April 07, 2009
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Arriving at Windmill Island, Frans Timmermans, The Netherlands' minister for European affairs, hopped out of a black Cadillac Escalade and greeted his welcoming party with wonder. "We came over the bridge and it was like looking at my own country," he said. "This is really amazing."
April 07, 2009
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Four hundred years after Henry Hudson sailed his ship Half Moon up a river that would one day bear his name, historians are marking his role in the evolution of a tiny Dutch trading post into a world capital called New York.
April 06, 2009
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Nearly 400 years ago, Dutch settlers established part of our economy: free markets. Now, Dutch minister Frans Timmermans is laying out a plan, based on Old World philosophy, that could help us recover from recession. The
podcast and the
transcript of the interview are now online.
April 06, 2009
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Dutch Cabinet Minister Frans Timmermans was interviewed by WNBC at the opening of the first big NY400 exhibit
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson. Watch the Cabinet Minister being interviewed by WNBC.
April 05, 2009
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To help celebrate the 400-year relationship between the two nations, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States of America Renee Jones-Bos will be the guest speaker at the 2009 Tulip Time Festival Luncheon, the festival announced Monday, April 6.
April 04, 2009
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Relegated by history to a mostly forgotten footnote, the government and
people of the Netherlands proudly stepped forward last week to remind
the world that if America begins in New York, then New York began 400
years ago thanks largely to the Dutch.
April 02, 2009
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National Public Radio visits Dutch Soldiers as they train for Afghan mission.
April 02, 2009
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To see some of the most important documents in the early history of New York, you need to go to Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands' national museum, put those documents on display Friday, including early maps and the only report of the purchase of Manhattan by Europeans.
March 31, 2009
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Launching the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of New York harbor and the river that bears his name, Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson—the first major exhibition to mark this occasion and the first exhibition of its kind—will open at the Museum of the City of New York on April 4, the day that Hudson set sail from Amsterdam on his third voyage in pursuit of a new route to Asia.
March 30, 2009
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In an interview with Dutch Television (RTL), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about what she thought of the Dutch pioneers and traders that came to New Amsterdam, and about those 400 years of shared history and values. Clinton was in The Hague to participate in the international conference on Afghanistan, hosted by The Netherlands. See the full interview
here
March 28, 2009
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Looking for something to celebrate? How about the commemoration of New York’s 400th birthday beginning next Saturday?
March 26, 2009
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The 400th anniversary of Hudson’s voyage will be celebrated this week
in Amsterdam and also in Manhattan, where the
Museum of the City of New York opens “Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson.” The exhibition, including 275 artifacts in an installation that evokes the hull of the 85-foot-long Half Moon, will remain open through the end of September. That’s when New York City and State will formally mark the anniversary of Hudson’s arrival in what would become America’s most diverse metropolis and a city of superlatives.
March 20, 2009
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This year marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of the river and valley that now bear his name. Naturally, 2009 is also a big moment for Hudson Valley museums and historic sites. In May, The Historical Society of Rockland County in New City will launch a show on the Tappan Zee Bridge. A month later, the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers opens its blockbuster on Dutch New York. Then in the fall, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill hosts "Double Dutch," featuring 13 installation artists and sculptors from the Netherlands.
March 19, 2009
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With an indoor loft swing, a wooden wall where furniture has been cut out, as with a child’s paper play set, and a bath mat that doubles as after-shower slippers, the Dutch design company known as droog has brought a home décor-themed adult playpen to SoHo’s Greene St. Part retail store, think tank and talent finder, Droog has injected some life into the sometimes humdrum world of home furnishings and become a global force in the design world.
March 17, 2009
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A huge Statue of Liberty designed out of 36,000 tulips bulbs was unveiled this week at the famed Keukenhof Gardens near Amsterdam as part of a series of cultural exchanges to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s journey from Amsterdam to what is now New York.
March 12, 2009
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Before this city was New York, it was New Amsterdam. So to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Dutch exploration of the New World, New York is sending a contingent to Old Amsterdam as part of a series of cultural exchanges between the two cities over the next year.
March 11, 2009
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Dutch Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos was interviewed by ESPN, about the Dutch baseball victory.
March 10, 2009
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Today, we can all be Dutch. No, we are not tall, hearty and suddenly good at speedskating, but we do love an underdog and today’s verdrukte is the Netherlands’ baseball team. A group made up of mostly minor leaguers and other wannabes just turned the World Baseball Classic into its own orange-splashed viering with another upset of the Dominican Republic Tuesday night. Onmogelijk!
March 10, 2009
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Even in the Netherlands, “honkbal,” as it is known, is not among the bigger sports, like soccer. But that could change after the monster upset that was the country’s 2-1 win over the imposing Dominican Republic at the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday, when Gene Kingsale blew across home plate in the final inning as if he had a windmill on his back.
March 08, 2009
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The Dutch are embarking on a decades-long plan to improve their flood-control system because they're afraid that rising sea levels from global warming will threaten their low-lying country.
February 19, 2009
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The new
Flanders House will celebrate its opening on February 25 from 6-11 pm at its new location on the 44th floor of the New York Times Building. The event will feature an awards ceremony, art exhibit, choral concert and reception. FHNY (Flanders Investment & Trade, Tourist Office for Flanders, International Flanders) will introduce the US to potential business opportunities in Flanders and consult with artists, researchers, tourists, individuals and organisations interested in the region.
February 19, 2009
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Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten, one of the top 10 DJs in the world, will perform at
Webster Hall in New York City on February 28th. That day, Ferry is also doing a DJ set, meet and greet and signing at the Virgin Megastore in NYC, promoting his new album
Twice in a Blue Moon.
February 12, 2009
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Dr. Willem J. Kolff, a resourceful Dutch physician who invented the first artificial kidney in a rural hospital during World War II, using sausage casings and even orange juice cans, and went on to build the first artificial heart, died Wednesday at his home in Newtown Square, Pa. Dr. Kolff, whose work has been credited with saving millions of lives, was 97.
February 12, 2009
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Dutch film star Carice van Houten, who is currently starring opposite Tom Cruise in the movie
Valkyrie, attended the red carpet event at the
Romance in a Can Festival in Miami on February 13. The festival showcased the film
Love is All, featuring Van Houten, in a special salute to
Dutch cinema.
February 10, 2009
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Droog, the iconoclastic Dutch design collective, is opening a store in New York in two weeks. All the pieces are on a container ship right now, though, so you’ll just have to make a mental picture of what Renny Ramakers, Droog’s co-founder, called an installation “designed to break the code of shop interiors.”
February 08, 2009
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Another international prize has just been awarded to Dutch conductor Bernard
Haitink and 'his' Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Together they won a Grammy
Award for a CD featuring the Fourth Symphony by Shostakovich.
February 07, 2009
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Absent of litter, slums and other urban ills, the Dutch cityscapes are redolent of civic pride rather than social realism. Only a few paintings reveal the evidence of destructive forces, including the burning of Amsterdam's town hall and a gunpowder explosion in Delft.
February 07, 2009
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This year's quadricentennial offers chance to look at 3 major figures, appreciate New York's storied history.
February 06, 2009
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The state's fragile coastline and intricate levee protection system may be 5,000 miles away from the Netherlands, but this week, a South Louisiana delegation is hoping to bridge that distance.
February 04, 2009
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Dramatic Public Hub at The Battery to Greet Millions and Pay Tribute to the Enduring Relationship Between the Netherlands and New York.
February 02, 2009
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At a press conference with Dutch officials held to announce plans for the joint Dutch-
American 2009 celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in New York Harbor, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg confirmed that Peter Minuit Plaza at The Battery will become the site of a major new public destination.
January 29, 2009
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If you’ve been waiting for centuries for a full translation of Adriaen van der Donck’s 1655 work
“A Description of New Netherland” (University of Nebraska) Press, $40), your wait is over.
January 29, 2009
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Watch the video of the NY400 Launch Event in the MoMA
January 29, 2009
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As the Netherlands and New York embark on activities to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Dutch-American friendship, the National Gallery of Art and the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis have brought together an outstanding collection of genre paintings known as ‘cityscapes’ to Washington, DC.
January 29, 2009
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Kicking off this year’s elaborate celebration of Henry Hudson’s voyage into New York Harbor, the Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has designed a sinuous “X” to mark a spot in the Battery where New York and the Netherlands will jointly honor the founding of Neue Amsterdam some four hundred years ago.
January 28, 2009
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Amsterdam and New York have ‘a common DNA'. Equality and tolerance are of high importance to both cities. That was the message at the start of celebrations to mark the 400 years of links between the Netherlands and New York.
January 28, 2009
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The city yesterday kicked off a year-long celebration of the 400th anniversary of explorer Henry Hudson's first visit to what eventually became New York.
January 28, 2009
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Though it remains to be seen whether Dutch architect Ben van Berkel's first announced New York City project will get built, we now have the details of his second NYC creation—and the prospects are sunnier.
January 28, 2009
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Amsterdam architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio has designed a pavilion for The Battery park in New York City, USA.
January 28, 2009
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Four-hundred years after Henry Hudson — sailing for the Dutch East India Company — steered his Halve Maen (Half Moon) crew up the river that now bears his name, the Netherlands’ influence here remains strong, the mayors of New York City and Amsterdam said yesterday.
January 28, 2009
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The mayor of Amsterdam, Marius Job Cohen, and the mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, joined forces on Wednesday to announce NYC 400, a yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York Harbor in 1609 aboard the Half Moon.
January 28, 2009
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Overview of Dutch media coverage regarding the launch of NY400.
January 28, 2009
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If a Dutch ship hadn't veered off course and landed in New York Harbor four centuries ago, New York City might be very different today.
January 28, 2009
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There is nothing like a beautiful city, and there are several, lovingly painted, in “Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age,” a quiet, gorgeous exhibition opening on Sunday at the National Gallery of Art.
January 28, 2009
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The mayor of Amsterdam, Marius Job Cohen, and the mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, joined forces on Wednesday to announce NYC 400, a yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York Harbor in 1609 aboard the Half Moon.
January 28, 2009
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The Dutch firm of UNStudio, led by Ben Van Berkel, has been selected to design the New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion.
January 27, 2009
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New York City is embracing its Dutch roots with a year long celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's landing in Manhattan.
January 27, 2009
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If a Dutch ship hadn't veered off course and landed in New York Harbor four centuries ago, New York City might be very different today. From its Dutch roots come names like Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Greenwich Village and Staten Island - not to mention the colors in its orange, white and blue flag.
January 27, 2009
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen, Dutch Cabinet Minister Frans Timmermans and NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta today announced a year of special events, exhibits, outdoor activities and performances to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson aboard the Dutch vessel 'Halve Maen' to New York City.
January 27, 2009
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen, Dutch Cabinet Minister Frans Timmermans and NYC & Company CEO George Fertitta today announced a year of special events, exhibits, outdoor activities and performances to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson aboard the Dutch vessel 'Halve Maen' to New York City.
January 27, 2009
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It's taken 400 years, but New York City is finally going to celebrate the achievements of Henry Hudson, with a series of Dutch-themed events this year, including a flotilla of old ships retracing the explorer's route up to Albany, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday.
January 27, 2009
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If a Dutch ship hadn't veered off course and landed in New York Harbor four centuries ago, New York City might be very different today. From its Dutch roots come names like Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Greenwich Village and Staten Island - not to mention the colors in its orange, white and blue flag.
January 27, 2009
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At a press conference with Dutch officials to announce plans for the joint Dutch-American 2009 celebration of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York Harbor, Mayor Bloomberg revealed a dramatic new public pavilion to be located at Peter Minuit Plaza at The Battery, designed by celebrated Dutch architect Ben van Berkel.
January 27, 2009
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The Dutch, who brought us Heineken and other spirits, love a good revelry. A high-level government delegation from the Netherlands visited Albany Tuesday to make sure that they don't miss a chance to party like it's 1609.
January 27, 2009
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Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio plans to plunk down a 5,000-square-foot "outdoor living room" in Battery Park to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival to New York City, made possible by a massive grant from the government of the Netherlands.
January 23, 2009
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What F. Scott Fitzgerald called the “fresh, green breast of the New World” that greeted Henry Hudson 400 years ago has been reimagined by a senior ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
January 21, 2009
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Four hundred years ago this month a legal contract was quietly negotiated that, arguably, would change the face of New York. You could even say it would point America toward the ethnic and racial diversity now personified by Barack Obama.
September 27, 2008
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What do bowling, the Bowery, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Harlem, Stuyvesant Town, the Yankees, the Roosevelts and coleslaw have in common?
