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Yesterday, New Amsterdam Village, the miniature Dutch village, opened up in Bowling Green Park as part of the ongoing festivities surrounding the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival. Dutch ambassador to the United States Renée Jones-Bos and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe made the village's opening formal by cutting a Gouda cheese!
As we mentioned earlier, the village consists of 12 traditional Dutch canal houses, a windmill, and a demonstration model of a contemporary Dutch greenhouse. Through Monday 14th, between 11am and 7pm, the public is able to sample and purchase sample and purchase Dutch agricultural products and foods, including stroopwafels, cheeses, herring sandwiches, dollar pancakes, cut flowers, flower bulbs and more. And authentic Dutch people are making wooden shoes, blowing glass, and holding floral and culinary workshops. Here's the full New Amsterdam Village program (PDF) and other NY400 events.
And if you want to know about the Dutch origins of New York names, like Brooklyn (Breuckelen) and Coney Island (Conyne Eylandt), CityRoom got the scoop from Ambassador Jones-Bos.
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Is it going to be just like Amsterdam and have marijuana cafes and brothels?
And sex shows!?
If you want sex shows, The Standard has them and better yet they're free.
Where's the pig roast?
Damn it, Gothamist. You're always quicker on the uptake for celebrity gossip than you are on actual events.
What do you mean?
Global Wombat, wtf are you bitching about? I wrote about this in advance (on WEDNESDAY, link above), and it's open for the next ten days. You're welcome.
Where are they putting Z Dyke?
imagine how much cooler new york (new amsterdam) would have been if the dutch managed to hold on to the land against the british.
Stroopwaffels are da bomb!
I love it! In case you were sleeping during history class, the Dutch were one of the only countries that ethically ruled (I prefer managed) their colonies.
I got an opportunity to visit The Netherlands for a week two years ago. We were based in Venlo and got a chance to visit Amsterdam. In spite of what you New Yorkers think, even in the Red Light district was so much cleaner and civil than New York. Not a careening SUV, unmuffled Harley, oince of trash, homeless person, armed (thug) cop or National Guardsman in sight. Plus, they have universal health care! They had huge parking garages for bicycles. Whatever parking lots there were, people and their children walked through them with no hesitation, unafaid of being mowed down by a motor vehicle. People lived on charming houseboats on the canals.
In the country (Venlo), not a vending machine, convenience store, mad vehicle, super store or pair of sneakers, blue jeans or flip-flops in sight. People got dressed up when they left the house. They had incredible bicycles and anybody who drove did so in a four cylinder Puegot, BMW, Ford, Opel, VW, etc. (very few Japanese makes). All taxi's were immaculate Mercedes with no barricade bewteen the driver and passenger, replete with suited, civilized and silent drivers. Restaurants were full of people with proper jackets, shirts and trousers. All food, wine and beer was local and you ordered du jour--the menu was there only for foreigners.
The food was another story altogether and I could write volumes about how there is no lite or diet anything, no sugar substitutes at the table, etc., etc. Everything was real meat, butter, sugar, milk, cream but in portions about half the size of ours. They even put sprinkles on their toast for chrissakes and I was the fattest guy in the whole country at the time!
Anyway, if you made it through this post, you should make a point to visit this remarkable country.
Yeah, all well and good, but one of them turned in Anne Frank.
Move along, there's nothing to Zuiderzee here.
check out the videoclip, celebrating the Dutch founding and 400th anniversary of New Amsterdam/New York,
NEW AMSTERDAM NY400: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bu7LGGIXrs
Singer/Songwriter Louise Van Aarsen has been invited by the Dutch Government NY400 project team to come sing this song live during NY400 week, at "The New Amsterdam Village" in Bowling Green Park, Manhattan. Louise will be featured in the afternoon of September 12th.
Give it back!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUwjFEwexI
Great promo for the Netherlands! But there is more to the Netherlands than, windmills, cheese and wooden clogs.
Got curious? Have you enjoyed NY400? Visit the Netherlands for yourself and see where New Yorks roots come from.
See pictures & video's of the Dutch countryside on www.holland-is.com.
Come visit the Netherlands!