Peter Stuyvesant

Amsterdam romances guests at a Thanksgiving destination wedding

2008-11-23 00:00:00

When friends heard where my stepson and his fianc�e were planning to tie the knot, the inevitable response was: "Cool. Is she Dutch?" In fact, neither of these two adventurous young people possesses even one strand of Low Country DNA. They just like...

'The Holy City: A Novel' by Patrick McCabe

2009-01-14 00:00:00

At some point, there's a large and interesting essay to be written on why so much of the most interesting new English-language fiction comes to us from Indian and Irish writers. When it is, there ought to be a substantial section devoted to Patrick...

Shorto: "El Nueva York libre y multicultural nació en la colonia holandesa"

2011-06-03 00:00:00

Halloween Tours Promise to Scare NY'ers

2010-10-01 15:03:00

Halloween is fast approaching and for those looking for something scary to do in the Big Apple -- you're in luck. Ghost Tours of New York are taking people all over the city. Tour guides will provide people with ghost stories, take them to antique...

A sign for the Flushing Freedom Mile in front of Flushing High School, in Flushing, Queens , welcomes visitors in many languages and helps tourists find landmarks in the area, home of the Flushing Remonstrance, a plea for religious tolerance sent in 1657 to Peter Stuyvesant , then Dutch governor of

2009-12-29 00:00:00