Brooklyn (Breukelen), Harlem (Haarlem), Holland Michigan, and a lot of other 'Dutch' places in the States. Three US presidents, two Roosevelts multiple times and Martin van Buren of Low Lands origin. Lot of US Army & Air Force Generals and Navy Admirals even so. Famous characters like Jane Seymour, Gloria Vanderbilt, Grace Vanderwaal, Peter Stuyvesant, Humphrey Bogart, Dick van Dyke, Carel Struycken, the Van Halen brothers in hard rock music, etc. Further thousands of other wellknown names in sports, entertainment, culture, science and politics.
As a NY er, I remember pieces about the Dutch and NYC. I know back in the day there were more references made to their housing and public parks and how their names go back to the Dutch.
Some of it were told by Bassie & Adriaan (the clown and the acrobat) when they made a whole tour in the US. Maybe that is also an idea to watch, if that is on UA-cam (with subtitles)..
A little hint to Dutch history as well is ‘Nassau st’. Wilhelmus van Oranje Nassau, Dutch royals 😊. NYC is def on my bucket list of cities I wanna see! Awesome video.
Also check out this video of him; Russell Shorto & Dutch-American Heritage Day, November 16! 👍🏻 And Geography Geek has a great video about New York and the Dutch heritage of the U.S., like the American Dream and the multicultural society! 👌🏼✌🏼
The areas around New York that are clearly Dutch are (among others) Brooklyn (after the town of Breukelen near the town of Utrecht), Flushing, Queens (after the South-Holland town of Vlissingen), Harlem (after the North-Holland capital of Haarlem), and Coney Island (named because of all the rabbit living there the Dutch 'Konijn Eiland' meaning 'Rabbit Island' or possible Coneyn Eiland, which was the family name of a group of settlers that lived there (also a derivative of 'Konijn', the Dutch word for rabbit)). Though it is not certain it was named after the Dutch word for rabbit, other explanation include the native Amercian tribe of the Konoh or Konoi (the "Bear Band"), naming it after an Irish island, also named Coney Island (also named after the Dutch word for rabbit, by the way) or that it was named after John Colman, the second mate of Henry Hudson, the captain of the Halve Maen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑlvə maːn]; English: Half Moon), which was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot (similar to a carrack). Henry Hudson named the Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait and many other things and areas after himself and some believe that if he got his way, he would have called New Amsterdam, Hudson City.
Wall street comes from the Dutch river waal, the Bronx is from the Jonas Bronck's boerderij (farm). Rhode island comes from the word rood wich means red so actualy it's red island. New Utrecht is now known as Brooklyn former Breukelen and there is a street called 'New Utrecht Ave'. Flushing is based on Vlissingen a place where the famous Dutch sea hero and admiral Michiel de Ruyter was born. Candy comes from the word kandij and is sugar. Bluff comes from the Dutch word bluffen. There is more to find if you google it. The Dutch lost New Amsterdam/ New Netherlands at war with the English gained it back and lost it again when they signed the Breda treaty. They exchanged it for the Antills, so Aruba, Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, Saba, St Eustatius etc. Till this Day it is still our colony known as the Dutch Carribean. We offered to give it back to them but they like te be a part of our country and all the benefits to be a Dutch citizen. Funny to think that maybe America could have spoken a form of Dutch if the exchange had never happend just like the South Africans.
This was great to watch. I know many about the dutch being in America and about Stuyversant and some being a president . But not know all that was told in the video's 👍
The dutch made many starshaped forts and citys. These were so disighed to defent the city against intruders. The lenght of the starwalls had a distance were musketballs were still effective and the "enemys" has no place to hide. If the walls should be round, than there were places for the enemys to hide out of sight for the muskets.
Good one.This should be mandatory to teach in school.🧑🎓 @02:12 Mighty sad.😢 However, we all know money (over)rules everything in the US.😢 But: The vast majority of North America is descended from Europeans, started by The Dutch. That makes them more or less indebted, at least in knowledge.🧐 And that is just where this video comes in.👌 Side-note: Knowing the Dutch created the first ever stock-market in Amsterdam, it is, really funny and kind of probably unintended "monumental" to call the old area of "New Amsterdam", "the financial district".🤣
But it isn't unintended. The Dutch settlers are those who started the financial market in the Americas. A mix of all kind of Dutch, Jews, Merchants, Investors, Big trade... Many of them came from Recife which was Dutch Brasil for a short time. The first American synagogue was there, the second in New Amsterdam after they moved north. Like Amsterdam, New Amsterdam was a mix of many origins. Scandinavians, Walloons, English, and others who had come to the Netherlands for freedom, now were in the Americas and did not plan to leave, ever. And that again is the big problem with Dutch settlements everywhere. They do not tolerate control by anyone. As soon as a population is established they go their own way. Simply compare it to South Africa, no obedience to anyone except ourselves, like in the Motherland. That is why companies like VOC and WIC didn't want permanent settlers.
nothng Dutch remained there?? we got a piece of an old church wall in my city, we are not allowed to tear it down since its a U.S heritage site. star forts are easy to defend by just a few men.
TX, youre a nice guy 🇳🇱 and loved in Holland. The USA 🇺🇸 could have the German language (+ culture, + militairy marching and banners and all what the German like 🤣). Because once there was voting about this; if the country should be English or German! With ONLY ONE VOICE 🌷more they choose ‘English’😎
The West Indian Company did not focus on New Amsterdam, but more on the Caribbean region. If they had seen the potential of North Amercan and defended New Amsterdam against England, the US would have spoken 'Amerikaans'. A language based on Dutch, just like Afrikaans😄. Good comments btw👍👍
The WIC alwasy lacked focus. First it was mostly about the war with Spain and the defense/spread of protestantism, so privateering, and having a trade network to support it. Then it was about agricultural settlement in New Netherland, the Caribbean wasn't interesting yet because the WIC was still run by devote protestants who didn't want to do anything with slavery, which makes it very difficult to succeed with plantations. Permission to enter the slavetrade was only given after the capture of Dutch Brazil as part of the war effort, up till then a Portuguese plantation colony, and only conditionally. But the agricultural settlement around New Amsterdam didn't attract many people either because life was good in the Dutch Republic. So that failed too. Then in 1648 the war with Spain and Portugal ended, so no more privateering, Dutch Brazil had already been lost, so the WIC ended up industrializing the Atlantic slavetrade, unconditionally this time, and became the main supplier for the plantations of the other European powers for a short while, until the English copied the Dutch but were better at keeping slaves alive through hygiene, giving them the competitive edge.
Brooklyn was supposed too be called Breukelen, but because Breukelen is to hard to pronounce for Americans it got mispronounced as Brooklyn. Its absolutely adorable to hear Dutch words being mispronounced. To know how little Americans know of their history and are not well informed about what happens outside of the USA is sadning.
As a Dutchman I visited NY a several times. And I am proud of the marks the Dutch has left on the city. Although it is not that much; mostly some names. But you might content that the liberal and open atmosphere of NY echoes that of Amsterdam. Both were and are cultural ‘melting pots’. I am also very proud how NYC handled the 9-11 attacks and it’s aftermaths. However I was very struck and saddened by the fact that nothing seems to remind New Yorkers that Manhattan was inhabited bij Native Americans. I hope that this will change. In a museum In southern Manhatten I saw a general exposition about Native Americans but it was very superficial and flimsy but nothing special about them in Manhattan ( that’s how they named their village).😢
Sorry to write this,but the Dutch werend sad when they lost New York! They sailed to the South off America and began a new place over there and were far more successful over there.
The Englisch take it ovet But in reality nothing change..The Englisch saw thst the colonial works independent .An good..The Dutch are not interest in land ..but in trade ..That.s why we loved the free market..Do not forget at that time we have max 2 miljoen people in the Netherlands .We haven.t the numbers for defending great earea..
That's partly why European cities are built differently. The town centre is the midieval fortress, either with or without walls in place, and then, depending on how and when te city grew, followed by old naberhoods from the 19th century via poor post WWII housing and to new naberhoods and at the edge of town there are industrial zones and sometimes skyscrapers. (In school I learned a little more about town structures on more places on the globe.) In the Netherlands only Rotterdam has skyscrapers near the city centre, which was bombed in 1940. Even after 1945 there was little need for high rise building, so 1950s architecture topicaly consists of small houses with one stone thick walls.
@@LogiForce86 Brooklyn, Flushing, Staten Island, Long Island, Rhode Island, Cony Island, Governors Island, Bronx, and hundreds more all have Dutch origins. And if we could we should take away the name Orange County, because it has no respect at all for its founders and freedom.
Me and we as Europeans think that you Americans tend to somehow want to forget the reason why you are there (to be short, no bad intentions intended) ... Erasing history can also mean erasing the painful souvenirs of those times... maybe we, on our side are a bit masochists?!? 😂😂
Yes, USA could have been a Dutch colony and today everyone would be speaking the same language as in Amsterdam or Den Haag.!! The problem in those colonial years was that Holland was really too small a power to be able to maintain and police their overseas territories. History is all just "luck-of-the-draw". It could have swung in any direction.
Brooklyn (Breukelen), Harlem (Haarlem), Holland Michigan, and a lot of other 'Dutch' places in the States. Three US presidents, two Roosevelts multiple times and Martin van Buren of Low Lands origin. Lot of US Army & Air Force Generals and Navy Admirals even so. Famous characters like Jane Seymour, Gloria Vanderbilt, Grace Vanderwaal, Peter Stuyvesant, Humphrey Bogart, Dick van Dyke, Carel Struycken, the Van Halen brothers in hard rock music, etc. Further thousands of other wellknown names in sports, entertainment, culture, science and politics.
A shout out to all of you people who came up with all this extra knowledge about Dutch/American history in your comments. Very much appreciated. ❤️🤍💙
As a NY er, I remember pieces about the Dutch and NYC. I know back in the day there were more references made to their housing and public parks and how their names go back to the Dutch.
As a Dutch person, you are always welcome to visit our interesting country. I hope to live in NYC one day because I love finance :) ❤
Some of it were told by Bassie & Adriaan (the clown and the acrobat) when they made a whole tour in the US. Maybe that is also an idea to watch, if that is on UA-cam (with subtitles)..
Ik dacht daar pas nog aan, hoe hadden ze zo'n groot budget😂 ze hebben zoveel plekken in de VS uitgelegd.
A little hint to Dutch history as well is ‘Nassau st’. Wilhelmus van Oranje Nassau, Dutch royals 😊. NYC is def on my bucket list of cities I wanna see! Awesome video.
4:48 Huh .. "Nassau St" like our lineage Nassau-Orange
i learned today that Coney Island comes from the dutch konijnen eiland which means rabbits island
Also check out this video of him;
Russell Shorto & Dutch-American Heritage Day, November 16! 👍🏻
And Geography Geek has a great video about New York and the Dutch heritage of the U.S., like the American Dream and the multicultural society! 👌🏼✌🏼
The areas around New York that are clearly Dutch are (among others) Brooklyn (after the town of Breukelen near the town of Utrecht), Flushing, Queens (after the South-Holland town of Vlissingen), Harlem (after the North-Holland capital of Haarlem), and Coney Island (named because of all the rabbit living there the Dutch 'Konijn Eiland' meaning 'Rabbit Island' or possible Coneyn Eiland, which was the family name of a group of settlers that lived there (also a derivative of 'Konijn', the Dutch word for rabbit)). Though it is not certain it was named after the Dutch word for rabbit, other explanation include the native Amercian tribe of the Konoh or Konoi (the "Bear Band"), naming it after an Irish island, also named Coney Island (also named after the Dutch word for rabbit, by the way) or that it was named after John Colman, the second mate of Henry Hudson, the captain of the Halve Maen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑlvə maːn]; English: Half Moon), which was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot (similar to a carrack). Henry Hudson named the Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait and many other things and areas after himself and some believe that if he got his way, he would have called New Amsterdam, Hudson City.
er is ook nieuw Utrecht en new Utrecht high school
Another great video, love your comments!
I appreciate that
@@HighlyCombustibleReacts You have a great personality bro 😎
Wall street comes from the Dutch river waal, the Bronx is from the Jonas Bronck's boerderij (farm). Rhode island comes from the word rood wich means red so actualy it's red island. New Utrecht is now known as Brooklyn former Breukelen and there is a street called 'New Utrecht Ave'. Flushing is based on Vlissingen a place where the famous Dutch sea hero and admiral Michiel de Ruyter was born. Candy comes from the word kandij and is sugar. Bluff comes from the Dutch word bluffen. There is more to find if you google it.
The Dutch lost New Amsterdam/ New Netherlands at war with the English gained it back and lost it again when they signed the Breda treaty. They exchanged it for the Antills, so Aruba, Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, Saba, St Eustatius etc. Till this Day it is still our colony known as the Dutch Carribean. We offered to give it back to them but they like te be a part of our country and all the benefits to be a Dutch citizen. Funny to think that maybe America could have spoken a form of Dutch if the exchange had never happend just like the South Africans.
Very very interesting. Never seen this before. Thanks 🙏
Never knew there was so little left of the Dutch in New York. I love these kind of info, very very interesting. Thank you!
Thanks Hxc .i love history.
This was great to watch. I know many about the dutch being in America and about Stuyversant and some being a president . But not know all that was told in the video's 👍
The dutch made many starshaped forts and citys.
These were so disighed to defent the city against intruders.
The lenght of the starwalls had a distance were musketballs were still effective and the "enemys" has no place to hide.
If the walls should be round, than there were places for the enemys to hide out of sight for the muskets.
Wow!! Really interesting!! Thank you so much!! 👏👏
Love the history stuff!
Great videos! Eagerly waiting for the next ones. 😉
Amsterdam born here, there was some strange familiarity in Manhattan, not so much visual but in the attitude
Good one.This should be mandatory to teach in school.🧑🎓
@02:12 Mighty sad.😢
However, we all know money (over)rules everything in the US.😢
But: The vast majority of North America is descended from Europeans, started by The Dutch. That makes them more or less indebted, at least in knowledge.🧐
And that is just where this video comes in.👌
Side-note: Knowing the Dutch created the first ever stock-market in Amsterdam, it is, really funny and kind of probably unintended "monumental" to call the old area of "New Amsterdam", "the financial district".🤣
But it isn't unintended. The Dutch settlers are those who started the financial market in the Americas.
A mix of all kind of Dutch, Jews, Merchants, Investors, Big trade... Many of them came from Recife which was Dutch Brasil for a short time. The first American synagogue was there, the second in New Amsterdam after they moved north.
Like Amsterdam, New Amsterdam was a mix of many origins. Scandinavians, Walloons, English, and others who had come to the Netherlands for freedom, now were in the Americas and did not plan to leave, ever.
And that again is the big problem with Dutch settlements everywhere. They do not tolerate control by anyone. As soon as a population is established they go their own way. Simply compare it to South Africa, no obedience to anyone except ourselves, like in the Motherland. That is why companies like VOC and WIC didn't want permanent settlers.
That panflet is in old Dutch how cool is that i,m Dutch from the province Limburg and the city Roermond
7:04 The Statue of Liberty stands on a Starfort....
nothng Dutch remained there?? we got a piece of an old church wall in my city, we are not allowed to tear it down since its a U.S heritage site. star forts are easy to defend by just a few men.
maybe the dutch people made every country of the world.
TX, youre a nice guy 🇳🇱 and loved in Holland. The USA 🇺🇸 could have the German language (+ culture, + militairy marching and banners and all what the German like 🤣). Because once there was voting about this; if the country should be English or German! With ONLY ONE VOICE 🌷more they choose ‘English’😎
The West Indian Company did not focus on New Amsterdam, but more on the Caribbean region. If they had seen the potential of North Amercan and defended New Amsterdam against England, the US would have spoken 'Amerikaans'. A language based on Dutch, just like Afrikaans😄. Good comments btw👍👍
The WIC alwasy lacked focus. First it was mostly about the war with Spain and the defense/spread of protestantism, so privateering, and having a trade network to support it. Then it was about agricultural settlement in New Netherland, the Caribbean wasn't interesting yet because the WIC was still run by devote protestants who didn't want to do anything with slavery, which makes it very difficult to succeed with plantations. Permission to enter the slavetrade was only given after the capture of Dutch Brazil as part of the war effort, up till then a Portuguese plantation colony, and only conditionally.
But the agricultural settlement around New Amsterdam didn't attract many people either because life was good in the Dutch Republic. So that failed too. Then in 1648 the war with Spain and Portugal ended, so no more privateering, Dutch Brazil had already been lost, so the WIC ended up industrializing the Atlantic slavetrade, unconditionally this time, and became the main supplier for the plantations of the other European powers for a short while, until the English copied the Dutch but were better at keeping slaves alive through hygiene, giving them the competitive edge.
Actualy the neighborhood Harlem is named after the dutch city haarlem. And surten streets stil have the dutch names
Brooklyn was supposed too be called Breukelen, but because Breukelen is to hard to pronounce for Americans it got mispronounced as Brooklyn. Its absolutely adorable to hear Dutch words being mispronounced. To know how little Americans know of their history and are not well informed about what happens outside of the USA is sadning.
As a Dutchman I visited NY a several times. And I am proud of the marks the Dutch has left on the city. Although it is not that much; mostly some names. But you might content that the liberal and open atmosphere of NY echoes that of Amsterdam. Both were and are cultural ‘melting pots’. I am also very proud how NYC handled the 9-11 attacks and it’s aftermaths.
However I was very struck and saddened by the fact that nothing seems to remind New Yorkers that Manhattan was inhabited bij Native Americans. I hope that this will change. In a museum In southern Manhatten I saw a general exposition about Native Americans but it was very superficial and flimsy but nothing special about them in Manhattan ( that’s how they named their village).😢
Sorry to write this,but the Dutch werend sad when they lost New York! They sailed to the South off America and began a new place over there and were far more successful over there.
The Englisch take it ovet
But in reality nothing change..The Englisch saw thst the colonial works independent .An good..The Dutch are not interest in land ..but in trade ..That.s why we loved the free market..Do not forget at that time we have max 2 miljoen people in the Netherlands .We haven.t the numbers for defending great earea..
First dutch contact with natives.
5:10 At that time, all towns that could afford it were built like forts.
That's partly why European cities are built differently. The town centre is the midieval fortress, either with or without walls in place, and then, depending on how and when te city grew, followed by old naberhoods from the 19th century via poor post WWII housing and to new naberhoods and at the edge of town there are industrial zones and sometimes skyscrapers. (In school I learned a little more about town structures on more places on the globe.)
In the Netherlands only Rotterdam has skyscrapers near the city centre, which was bombed in 1940.
Even after 1945 there was little need for high rise building, so 1950s architecture topicaly consists of small houses with one stone thick walls.
Hi great content. The name Harlem in New York comes from the Dutch city of Harlem.
The city is called haarlem.
@@jpfoto64 Harlem on an English map though. 😉
Names change depending on in which language they are written.
@@LogiForce86 Brooklyn, Flushing, Staten Island, Long Island, Rhode Island, Cony Island, Governors Island, Bronx, and hundreds more all have Dutch origins. And if we could we should take away the name Orange County, because it has no respect at all for its founders and freedom.
@@jpfoto64 Okay meester Peeters. Nog een vraagje. Is het muggenzifter of muggezifter?
Van der Donck is my great great great grandfather 👍
1:08 what are all these structures under the water ??
Clueless I had no idea about any of this
The brits and the french,furtrade
Me and we as Europeans think that you Americans tend to somehow want to forget the reason why you are there (to be short, no bad intentions intended) ... Erasing history can also mean erasing the painful souvenirs of those times... maybe we, on our side are a bit masochists?!? 😂😂
if it aint Dutch, it aint much!!!
@UCip7CRDsZknJweFtfSIzORw wat heb jij te zeggen dan?
klopt
Albany was bigger in that time and there were more Dutch people
Yes, USA could have been a Dutch colony and today everyone would be speaking the same language as in Amsterdam or Den Haag.!!
The problem in those colonial years was that Holland was really too small a power to be able to maintain and police their overseas territories.
History is all just "luck-of-the-draw".
It could have swung in any direction.
Great video, i was only distracted by a girl talking in the background.
I totally didn't know there was any sound taking place in the back, missus normally wears her airpods. Will be more careful from now on :)
They don't even know their American history, let alone their Dutch history.
I thought history started after the founding fathers 😢. What a disappointment to find out the world is older and bigger.
WY do AMERICANS DISTROY there HISTORY