The Entire History of New York City
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The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
The "Sons of Liberty" campaigned against British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from throughout the Thirteen Colonies met in the city in 1765 to organize resistance to Crown policies. The city's strategic location and status as a major seaport made it the prime target for British seizure in 1776. General George Washington lost a series of battles from which he narrowly escaped (with the notable exception of the Battle of Harlem Heights, his first victory of the war), and the British Army occupied New York and made it their base on the continent until late 1783, attracting Loyalist refugees.
The city served as the national capital under the Articles of Confederation from 1785 to 1789, and briefly served as the new nation's capital in 1789-90 under the United States Constitution. Under the new government, the city hosted the inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States, the drafting of the United States Bill of Rights, and the first Supreme Court of the United States. The opening of the Erie Canal gave excellent steamboat connections with upstate New York and the Great Lakes, along with coastal traffic to lower New England, making the city the preeminent port on the Atlantic Ocean. The arrival of rail connections to the north and west in the 1840s and 1850s strengthened its central role.
Beginning in the mid-19th century, waves of new immigrants arrived from Europe dramatically changing the composition of the city and serving as workers in the expanding industries. Modern New York traces its development to the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 and an economic and building boom following the Great Depression and World War II. Throughout its history, New York has served as a main port of entry for many immigrants, and its cultural and economic influence has made it one of the most important urban areas in the United States and the world.
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I am Eight Generations from my direct ancestor Richard Pittenger who arrived in New Amsterdam aboard the Dutch ship , “ The Phillip “ in 1665!
Thank you for this informative history!
nice..are you from that family?
Nice
I'm 12th generation Dutch. Three sisters came in 1627 with their husbands. Two are my great grandparents as well as some of the Roosevelts. The 3rd sister was married to Jan Aertsen van der Bilt. WE never got a dime from any of them nor a cup of tea at the White House.
I'm 11th generation French Huguenots who came in 1653 on the Bonte Coe. (Spotted Cow). I left the city 50 years ago because I couldn't stand what it had become. Filthy, crime ridden and no better than the Tammany Hall days.
@@SkbSzd yes our branch went to New Jersey when the British arrived . Then went West to the Northwest Territory and settled in Ohio.
@@robertcuminale1212 we always thought we were Dutch too, until we learned that was because the Pittenger family were refugees from the English Civil War . We are originally from Nottinghamshire.
One of OUR cousins was John D. Rockefeller! We were the poor relations.
Up until Jan 1, 1898 NYC was only the Island of Manhattan. So NYC as the 5 boroughs only dates from that date.
@@bonniewinograd2356 Just to be annoyingly pedantic, the Bronx had already joined Manhattan before then.
@@billcook4768 it was not considered a borough of NY until 1898 .Prior to that it was considered an unincorporated area of the city.
In 1895 the East Bronx was transferred to NYC. But it was not a borough.
When what we now call NYC came into existence happened on Jan 1, 1898 the City of Brooklyn ( and yes it was its own city ) became on of the 5 boroughs. Only the. Did the Bronx become a borough.
Thanks for the info I love history 😊
Fantastic production. Thank you. Really great!!
Amazing video. Would be interesting if you did the same thing for Ancient Rome as being the greatest city of the ancient world
Teotihuacan
👍 🇬🇧 !
@@ChrisMo16 he said the ancient world lmao, you guys are not very smart, no wonder your Aztec empire was decimated with ease
When I walk thru Wall Street, the Bowery, Broadway, cross the river to Brooklyn , I imagine what it was like when Five Points teamed with gang violence, where George Washington was inaugurated, when the British occupied, when the Dutch took over settlers, tried to tax the natives, started the slave trade. I always go back back to when the Lenape and other Natives lived here for thousands of years, their forest home. They couldn’t have imagined what this land is like present day.
It’s so cool to try and see it through their eyes!
Absolutely!
This is incredible. The narration, editing, everything. This deserves way more love!
Everytime I think of New York I think of Spider Man swinging between those massive buildings.
Nice lmao
😂😂😂 me too
You must be 12 years old.
@@dubrob210 go touch grass, pipsqueak, I grew up watching Spider-Man and I have never been to New York to have a different perspective, I know about the aesthetics of New York quite literally because of the Spider Man movies, so don't get your knickers in a twist.
@@1inchpunisher715 Everytime I think of New York, I think of the twin towers R.I.P 1973-2001.
this is a fantastic video, thanks
Very peculiar reference to some "long island" at 15;30.
Perhaps the guy means New York's Lon Gailand.
😂😂
It's spelled Lawn Guyland.
I bought that Sept 2009 Nat Geo on Henry Hudson with the original Topo Maps of Manhattan before Landfills along the shore. Amazing stuff.
great video!
Very nice. I lived in NYC as a college student and later worked at The Village Voice and ran into the greatest genius of all history Lyndon LaRouche's movement there and began my lifelong journey. I also ate italian ices and rode bicycle at 1am around the streets. It was wonderful but filled with crime too.
Thank You for your video
Y’all needa go to sleep 😅
Shh 🤫
But it's only 7pm...
@@tomz5704 we don’t all live in the same time zone sir, like I said go to sleep🫶
I’m wet, baby gotta change diaper + time zones
❤
For the record New York State has one of the coolest state capitol buildings in the entire country what an amazing piece of architecture
Great video, you forgot to mention the Verizano also had the bridge named after him crossing the Hudson River
A well done whistle stop tour. I'd also recommend viewing Nic Burns' series New York: A Documentary Film also available on YT
I’m still looking for some kind of video or movie about how New York City was formed/built/constructed. I don’t want to hear about how the government was formed and how the wars were fought. I want to see what kind of buildings and streets were constructed. I’m more interested in the architecture and real estate than the government. But almost every video I find tells me about the Dutch fighting with the English and renaming the city and then there was a new war and then forts were renamed and I’m I’m just not interested in that. that’s not what I’m looking for. If anyone else is looking for the same thing and they have bunch to read this message let me know if you find a video that shows for instance how brownstones were built and the reason why they had so many levels. Or the kitchen on the bottom floor. Why didn’t they have backyards? Was Brooklyn ever a city. Was it always a part of New York City? What is a burrough? It sounds like it’s just another name for a city. I’m thinking, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, we’re all individual cities at one point.
NYC❤
What‘s the name of the first BGM?
I was a little surprised to see photos of the original and new World Trade Center without a single mention of 9/11....a major historial event in NYC history.
NY and world history
Life goes on
New York existed a lot loger that it says here. A lot longer. Without the current modern buildings, of course but with older highly impressive buildings.
Good Job
Incredible - very professional -Thank you
She finally understood that grief was her love with no place for it to go.
we all know the land wasn't "purchased"
Native Americans had a totally different concept of land ownership...
then it was “traded”
@@Blaqjaqshellaq but they understood what territory meant - - even animals understand that
Who cares
@@Blaqjaqshellaqthen why did they kill each other for territory ?
how do I find great mill stone brothers from nyc
No mention of the Erie Canal?
They mentioned it.
See 11:48.
So voice make me sleep. good content by the way but I can’t stay at the end
18:56 so you miss the best part of the pre-world buildings
Yoooo bro cooked with this one 🔥
As a New York resident, I say,
HA!
I love New York because I live there who else is. Give a thumps up if you do live in New York
Thanks 😊
There were tribes of Algonquins here but this hudson guy just "claimed" it
They did that all over the world! Like a kid licking something and saying my germs!
Don’t take better help sponsorship 😳
thanks 😊
New York: The cultural, economical and political hub of the planet. Truely beautiful and awe inspiring as ever.
That's London not New York
@@illyaedwards7188 New York is the best city of Oxford economics far second is London
@@charlieordaniel6914 We must be reading different articles, and London has everything, the best theaters, the best parks, Tower bridge is the worlds greatest bridge, London has the best food markets in the world and the best museums, and the Tower of London is over a thousand years old, New York is just a city of Skyscrapers just like a lot of other cities.
@@illyaedwards7188 Hi Illy, might be the case, I have been to both cities and just like New York more... ;)
@@tirrere7509 it's all down to what that particular person likes, there is no right or wrong answer, I prefer London to New York and some people will prefer Paris to New York or London, and some people hate big cities and would just rather live in a small town
I studied every major city in the world and i concluded New York is the greatest!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
So have I, and I have been to 38 countries around the world and 44 states and let me tell you, New York City is, in fact, the greatest city in the world!
London is keep crying
@@ericdudley4169 have you been there?
@AT-vq6nu london never better than New York city.
If you can make it there, you can make it....there.
The East river isn’t a river. It’s an estuary.
For all those saying it's not the greatest, I agree. Every time I have to go there I hate it. It is however the greatest city from a financial perspective. It has the largest economy in the world almost a trillion higher than Tokyo which has the second largest economy. Also, it's the most well known city in the world.
I have been to 38 countries around the world, 44 states, and countless cities, and let me tell you, New York City is, in fact, the greatest city in the world!
I have been all over the world, over 45 years!!! New York was great for about 10yrs in the late 80s/ early 90s!! I has been the ashtray of the world, especially for the last 6yrs!! We pulled our family business from it in July! It had been there for 102yrs!! It's a dump, and any of my European business associates agree!!
@@ericdudley4169😂😂
@@ebdo7863lol late 80s? Your tripping - Dinkins was a horrible Mayor. Bloomberg sucked too
@@ebdo7863good for your “European business associates” I thought Paris was a dump when I was there so you can pass that along
Will the next one be how it fell to one of the worst?
AMAZING!!!!!
Love my city. NEW YORK
Your name is ahmed bruh you’re not from US I guarantee 😂
@ I am an American, are you? If so, you are not from US too unless you are a Native American.
@@Knowthetruth1183 you’re not. Be proud of your heritage not what you became. I’m proud European
@ I am proud. I’m a New Yorker, and my ancestors are from South Asia. Asian American like so many people in here in NY. Love this about NY, diverse
Thumbnail reminds me of Saint Denis
Name ONE thing that's great about N.Y.C.
The sign that says “Now leaving NYC”
You're not there to annoy New Yorkers
Bigger is usually not better when it comes to cities
Everybody is leaving.
@@WillMellquistthat’s not true
Tell that to Texans.
4 rivers moment , They kinda forgot about the bronx river
I love new and old yorks
That awkward moment when your map of England swallowed up Wales too. 😅
er.......What IS " Wales "....??
Awkward for ONLY the welsh!!!
Whales are the ones who are supposed to swallow people 😅
HEY STOP THAT I KNOW THOSE 2 SQUARES AT 11:25
Too many damn commercials in the video.
I’ve been there once. Recently. While I was there I thought ok, cool. But I have no desire. Now I kind of want to go back and see more of the city. However, in the 2 months since I was there, there has been like 3-4 high profile murders. Maybe I’ll wait until they get some better leadership there to get ahold on this crime.
New York, New York refers to the county and city in that order being Manhattan.
Incorrect. City, State
@@nick12586 Well, if you're writing it on an envelope it's probably County, State, because other parts of NYC put Bronx or Bklyn, Brooklyn was a separate city once. But NY, NY means Manhattan.
I mean when people say NY they do usually mean Manhattan or "the city".
But no, factually speaking you list city and state.
Everything else besides street adress is indicated by your zip code
Who proclaimed that
Better help is a scam
??😂😂
You scam 😂😂😂
I find that most companies that pay UA-camrs to advertise for them usually are scams and they try to get around false advertising by letting a UA-camr do it.
oh headass
They all will say, "get over your issue(s)" so what's the point? maybe for some it's useful.
They are as messed up as anyone else possibly, let's not forget
Things didn't go the way I wanted them to go and there is not much I can do about it
Never stop trying, that way even when you fail you won’t feel that it was your fault, and can take the L with grace. Have the tenacity and open mindedness to find other routes to success, whatever that means for you.
ENGLAND made it NEW YORK facts
No not even close.
New York is named after the english town York. New York was New Amsterdam the british went to war with the dutch and won.
😂 i get it! NYC landlords need more tenants to be drawn in
go to bed grandpa thats enough fox news
@@makomerlin4250 absolutely, pay your taxes, Mr Euro
Unfortunatly you use the wrong outbordering of the Netherlands. Before 1830 Belgium and Luxemburgh were part of this country. And in fact much bigger than projected in this video.
I don't understand why Staten Island is a part of New York. It's clearly on the New Jersey side of the river. If Staten Island is in New York then surely Jersey city should be a part of New York. But I'm from the UK so I probably don't know what I'm talking about
India, Egypt and South Africa were a lot farther from London than Staten Island is from Manhattan.
In the 1990s Staten Island actually voted to split from the rest of New York. However it was cancelled.
@@urbangorilla33 India Egypt and South Africa are not cities or parts of a city. They are countries.
@@stevenhoughton1406 Well, darn, Steven, I didn't know that!
@@urbangorilla33 so why bother comparing it then
@3:00 how can you claim land that rightfully never belonged to you?
💣🔪
By the enforceability of it's claim.
@@ahotdj07 we are all visitors on earth, no land belongs to any humans🫶
The west is proud of its colonial past but now they are like bad bad Russia and bad bad China. Thyre proud they invaded the continent of America but now they condemn Russias invasion of Ukraine
Land belongs to no one
You only see the excitement, oh yes I was one of those to growing up just 21/2 hours a way, but I woke up, so why can’t you.
Wish it was the way it was in the 1600s again. Fresh n clean, and beautiful
life expectancy: 36 years
nasty, brutish and short
Imagine native americans coming to europe and just claiming it for themselves.
You didn't mention how central park was an African American neighborhood. They were removed...
If it's so great, why doesn't the whole world live there?
John Lennon chose to live there !!
That tells you something....!!
Have you been to NYC? The whole world lives there.
@@2msvalkyrie529Madonna and Tom Cruise live in London so what’s your point?
@@fanniinnanetguy653 The whole world lives everywhere in the states 😂 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND IS THE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD!!!
Nice
I could never understand this idea. How Europeans say "they discovered the land" when it was already discovered by people living there. illegal/force immigration started back then. Moral of story. "As you sow, so shall you reap"
"How New York Became The World's Greatest Symptom of Everything that is Wrong with the World".... Now, that's much better.
Hater
Time square is one big UA-cam Ad and people pay to visit it in droves. I’ve always been shocked by that.
There are no intellectuals in New York City. Providence Rules!
400 years later..
Remote work has ruined nyc some what, people work from home, so the city feels desolate compared to pre remote work days. That feeling of hustle & bustle is gone, and may never come back.
It will come back with hybrid work when workers work half the week from home and half in the office
Fake news
Been to Time Square lately?
The tourist traps, and college student hung outs still give the illusion that nyc is back.
But nyc's population have declined by half a million in the past couple of years, and also couple of million less commuters that used to come into Manhattan pre-remote work, everyday, who now stay at home. People used to commute into Manhattan, not only from nyc boroughs, but NJ & outer areas like Westchester, Long island etc.
So that's a lot of people missing from the city, and it's vibe.
New York is the greatest city in the world because it has the highest GDP of any city with $1.4 trillion. It’s the economic center of the world. The New York Stock Exchange is four times the size of the London Stock Exchange in terms of capitalization. New York is also home to the United Nations. New York and London are the only Alpha++ cities in the world rankings. And it was the worlds first mega City New York did all this in 400 years something that took London what 1700 years to do ? When it comes to scenery, architecture, food, and restaurants, etc., that's all subjective, and people are entitled to their own opinion about which city they believe is the best in the world.
I agree with you
Yes, it took London longer - but you’re forgetting London (and it has to be said, also Amsterdam), literally invented New York). It’s even named after an English town! It’s a spin-off! Of course it took New York less time. You speak English in New York! Just exactly where do you think that came from. London literally gave you the head start! They say New York and London are brothers. The closer truth is New York is London’s son. You’ve been a global capital for about 70 years. Wake me up when you’ve been a global city for 300.
London is the greatest city in the world, and London is the economic and banking center of the world, so you actually do any research?
@@illyaedwards7188 it’s New York not London
@@c.f.okonta8815 it's definitely London, and London has more to offer
New York is far from the worlds greatest city
Then who is it?!
@@juangarcia-gv2jy if you don't know you have a lot of lessons left to learn in life
@@juangarcia-gv2jySingapore, Dubai, Tokyo, even London is better.
@@nygeriunprenceNew York City is the best city by Oxford economics
New York City is the best city by Oxford economics
New yorrrrrrk, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do - MLK
😂
New York is full of bots. Providence is where the true intellectuals reside. Boston and London can be forgotten about.
Greatest? I don’t know bout that 🤨 (I live in new york)
I have been to 38 countries around the world, 44 states, and countless cities, and let me tell you, New York City is, in fact, the greatest city in the world!
And we lived here for our lives!
The fact that you live there helps to make it
Great....!!!
@@ericdudley4169London is the world's greatest city
@@illyaedwards7188 As a native British person it really isn't these days, it's now an absolute dump and crime has skyrocketed. It used to be a fantastic city, but not any more.
What about the Vikings which visited North America around 1000 A.D.?
Nothing developed from their visits. Only after the voyages of Columbus did Europeans take notice of the lands across the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
The Vikings were poking around Newfoundland....never made it to New York.
The world's greatest city? Ya ok lol. Curious what metrics they used to determine that.
Feet! They really like feet! 🥰👣 Lol 🤦♂️
I liked it when I went there in 1992
Please do the history of Germany.
Well, Germany is about a 150 years old...so that's a short clip 😂
Can we just stop the myth that the natives lived peacefully though?
Europeans didn’t live peacefully either nor did Africans or any people group in any continent in the history of mankind
Oh No.....! Surely not ?? I thought Native Americans sat around their campfires
chilling with some weed and having the
neighbouring tribes round to hold hands and sing Kumbayah....... ??
@@hmmmmmm6901Nobody lived peacefully, therefore, natives didn't live peacefully.
You skip senca villages in new york
When will Indian cities be like this ?
As a Irish American, the fact I speak English and not Gaelic is your answer
PARIS IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CITY!!
The greatest city in the world (work, work!)
Hamilton!
I love NYC but it is the 2nd greatest city in the world, Tokyo is absolute number one!
No. It's actually Providence, Rhode Island.
1:30 shouldnt the title card for this video start from 8000 years ago till now? Why 1624 onwards?
A lot of people ignore the indigenous history in part because it goes against the commonly held archaeologist position that culture did not exist before 6,000 years ago. The 6000 years part is a coping mechanism for western archaeology that you can trace to the bible. The bible says earth and everything is 6000 years old. When archaeology first became a profession, they couldn’t receive approval from the extremist Christians in power, and made sure that they explored any discoveries with the goal of confirming the 6000 years narrative. This is not a conspiracy theory and I’m not saying anything about aliens or lost technology.
There are alpha++ cities in the world. London is superior to nyc because it has history/heritage, is THE cultural hub of UK whereas nyc shares this with La and others, and is the political hub and de facto centre of everything else
The world’s greatest city smells like rotting garbage on every street, has homeless people screaming at you on the subway, and costs a fortune for you to live in a closet.
Yup I was there and the impression I got was ‘past glory’!
So? lol Says a lot about the rest of
Wrong. NYC rocks!
The subway she is a prno the pavements they are a mess!
I know you've supported me for a long time. Somehow I'm not impressed.
New York Cares.
Literally my least favorite city 🤷🏼♂️
Move to Providence.
Define….. greatest
Best city? Have you ever been there?
1625 -1965.
NY stopped being great a long time ago. Took the libs only 40 years to undo nearly 400 years of progress.
Not "slaves"!!! "Enslaved melanited people from Africa "!!! Correct your terminology and usage of language!!!
That's a matter of opinion.
I have been to 38 countries around the world, 44 states, and countless cities, and let me tell you, New York City is, in fact, the greatest city in the world!
Yyyyyaaaaaawwwwwnnnnn
I thought Washington was inaugurated on April 30th 1790; not 1789. Washington wore a brown velveteen suit.
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The Goat City
No. That would be Providence. You come in second. Boston comes after you (i hated that place). And lets all forget about London 😂