Peter is back. Yup, the lovable Peg-Leg Pete is once more on display, although not in his original spot, but nevertheless he’s available to the public again. Gone for more than four years, the bronze ...
Move over Christopher Columbus, it’s Peter Stuyvesant’s turn to get scorched in the monuments war. A Jewish activist group is now demanding Mayor de Blasio scrub all traces of the anti-Semitic Dutch ...
A name adorns one of New York City’s most prestigious high schools. It denotes entire neighborhoods and the largest apartment complex in Manhattan. Even with a name glorified across our city, we ...
An Israeli legal NGO is calling on New York City to remove statues honoring Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th century Dutch ruler of the colony of New Amsterdam. The head of Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. CAPE ELIZABETH – Peter “Pops” Stuyvesant Eastman, 92, of Cape Elizabeth, ...
My meeting with the inimitable monument was not supposed to happen here, along a desolate patch of long-crumbled curb on Tonnelle Avenue, at the foot of the precipitous incline of North Street in the ...
Re: “Should New York City Remove Statues Of Its Anti-Semitic Dutch Governor?” (Aug. 25). How shall we recall Peter Stuyvesant, the 17th-century Dutch Colonial governor of New Amsterdam (later New York ...
In January more than 350 years ago, two men of Vlissingen—now Flushing, N.Y., near Manhattan—sat in jail for defending the rights of Quakers to publicly practice their faith. This early act of courage ...
Stuyvesant at the invasion of New Amsterdam by English forces in 1664. Image via Wikimedia Commons Born and raised in the Netherlands, Petrus Stuyvesant spent most of his adult life at sea for the ...
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