The 20-year-old Colonial-style three-bedroom isn’t her own home, but it does sit just a few minutes from her family’s weekend place in the pastoral heart of New York’s Westchester County.

They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies.

You may expect remnants of New York City’s colonial history to ... at the southwestern tip of Manhattan to shield the colony, then under British rule, from enemies as well as rough waves and ...

Local news websites published draft excerpts this week, and The New York ... under British rule is not new. Although the Communist Party had referred to China before 1949 as a “half colony ...

In the 1730s, the colonial legislature of New York officially created a fire department, giving birth to today’s FDNY. In 1776, as Washington withdrew from the city and the British rushed in ...

In 1664, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Royal Navy sailed to the region, and Governor Peter Stuyvesant had no choice but to surrender the colony to the British. Its capital, New Amsterdam, was ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered ... 44 years after the first slaves arrived in the British colony. The Servants Plot, as it was known, involved ...

While the Dutch grid itself has remained largely as it was in the 17th century, when the British took control of New Amsterdam in 1664 and changed the colony’s name to New York – in honor of ...

The 20-year-old Colonial-style three-bedroom isn’t her own home, but it does sit just a few minutes from her family’s weekend place in the pastoral heart of New York’s Westchester ... the color and ...