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Mireille Mosler Ltd. is pleased to present (New) Amsterdam, an eclectic mix of views from New York and Amsterdam from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Almost four-hundred years ago, in 1624, on the southern tip of Manhattan, New Amsterdam was a designated provincial extension of the Dutch Republic. The story of the Dutch presence in America began in 1609 when Henry Hudson tried to find a shortcut to Asia, discovering the island of Manhattan instead. For forty years, Dutch settlers traded mostly beaver and otter skins, while defending the Dutch colony against European …