Experience early Dutch New York in Brooklyn and Queens
I have lived in both Amsterdam and New York City and speak both Dutch and English, which gives me an extra advantage in reading the history of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in great richness and context. I also am an archaeology undergraduate.
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Experience early Dutch New York in Brooklyn and Queens
What's included in Experience early Dutch New York in Brooklyn and Queens
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Battery Park
DISCOVERY & SETTLEMENT We will meet at New Amsterdam Plein at the Costello Plan which is a bronze map reproduction of New Amsterdam right next to the South Ferry subway 1 line. Here we will walk down to the coast and look out at Noten island (Nut Island) where the Dutch first settled and recount the history of the discovery of this part of the coast by sailors and the later settlement.
National Museum of the American Indian
This is ironically the original site of Fort Amsterdam. Hear the story of how the early settlers arrived in Lower Manhattan, built fortifications and lived with the existing people. (Note: We are not entering the museum, it is just an important location as part of the journey to learn about early New Amsterdam)
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Another location which we are not going to but on the way to tell the tale of the early settlers and how they lived. We also include the history of how slaves and Jews arrived in New Amsterdam.
Inclusions
- Personal tour guide for duration of the tour.
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- We will gather as here as a group and head towards the water side to then commence the tour and you will be introduced to how the Dutch arrived in this place and started with a smaller outpost on Noten Ijland (Nut Island) which is Governor's Island visible from the shoreline.
End Points
- The tour ends at Wall Street, the wooden pallisade wall that helped provide this early settlement with a barrier to invasion by the British who were settled to the North.
