New York CityfromHistoryExtra3 weeks agoHow the English took ManhattanThe English took Manhattan without violence due to negotiations, rivalries, and ideological divides among the Dutch.
fromwww.theguardian.com2 months agoNew York plows ahead': how the English invaded and changed a cityWhen they were excavating to put in that skyscraper, the archeologists identified and marked out those little bits. New York plows ahead. But there are those tantalizing remnants.NYC politics