I wanted to see old New York, the earliest New York, the Lenni Lenape land of Mannahatta (“island of many hills”), the 1624 ...

New York ranks No. 22 overall among U.S. states based on 71 metrics across eight categories. ... When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, ...

The roots of modern-day New York—its dizzying cultural diversity and capitalist might—lie in its Dutch origins. ... The English succeeded the Dutch in 1664, and New Netherland became New York.