Lunch & Learn: The Birth of New York City's Municipal Government

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On February 2, 1653, the States General in The Hague and the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam issued a charter officially establishing a government structure. On February 2, 2024, historians and archivists joined together to discuss New Amsterdam, the colonial records at the New York City Municipal Archives, and connect with a celebration of Lower Manhattan.


New Amsterdam Stories & New York City Government's Municipal Archives
Sylvia Kollar - Director of the Municipal Archives, DORIS
Michael Lorenzini - Director of Operations, DORIS

Candles and Groundhogs: An Audiovisual Presentation
Firth Haring Fabend - Historian, Author & Trustee of the New Amsterdam History Center
Toya Dubin - New Amsterdam History Center’s Director of Mapping Early New York

Archaeology of Place: It Happened Here
Abby Suckle - FAIA & President, cultureNOW

Remarks
Ambrose M. Richardson - President, Lower Manhattan Historical Association


Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Housekeeping
3:30 Lecture
47:39 Q&A
54:11 Closing and Outro




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