Peter Stuyvesant

Mr. Yonkers

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An ambitious visionary, 17th-century Dutch lawyer Adriaen van der Donck advocated for a more representative government in the Dutch West India Co. colony of New Netherland. His dream foreshadowed New York and the United States even as he gave his name to the city of Yonkers.

Noo Yawk

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New York, N.Y. – Gotham, the Big Apple, the City That Never Sleeps.
And it never has, not even on its darkest day.
Other cities may be more exotic (Istanbul, New Orleans), more beautiful and romantic (Paris, San Francisco), more historically significant (Jerusalem, Rome, London). But few cities have New York’s gift for embracing the gritty and the glamorous, its terrifying, wondrous capacity for reinvention.