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New Amsterdam 1660

Access roads are at the maps edge (in the foggy zone)
81 TILES MOD IS A MUST TO PLAY THIS MAP



Do you want to start all over again and change the Island of Manatus (nowadays Manhattan) from a Dutch Settlement into a modern city? This map gives you this opportunity.
"Invade" New Netherlands again and build your own New York.,

New Amsterdam and a lot of farms are reconstructed from old maps found online.
Important details in this mao:
- Stuyvesant Town, Greenwich Village and Harlem can be found as small farming settlements.
- The map is scaled 1:1 and Broadway, Greenwich Ave and Bowery are exactly located as nowadays.
- The highway and railroad entrances can be found at the edges of the map
- All highway and railrond entrances are available (so there are more than four of each)

The required items are the old Dutch buildings I created to make this mape as nice as possible.
They have the same function as the abandoned buildings in the map editor.

The size of Manhattan was smaller in 1660 than the nowadays size. The expansion of the land area of Lower Manhattan in New York City by land reclamation has, over time, greatly altered Manhattan Island's shorelines on the Hudson and East rivers as well as those of the Upper New York Bay. The extension of the island began with European colonialization and continued in the 20th century. Incremental encroachment, landfill, as well as major infrastructure have added acreage to the island. This is up to you to do that again.

Advice: Use the 81 Tiles Mod

The Dutch first explored New York Bay in 1609, when Henry Hudson, commanding the *Halve Maen* for the Dutch East India Company, sought the Northwest Passage. Instead, he reported on the area's rich beaver population, sparking commercial missions to exploit the lucrative fur trade. Beaver pelts were valued in Europe for making waterproof hats, with castoreum, a by-product, used in medicine and perfumes. Expeditions by Adriaen Block and Hendrick Christiaensen between 1611 and 1614 charted the region, naming it New Netherland on a 1614 map that secured a four-year trade monopoly.

In 1613, Spanish trader Juan Rodriguez, working for the Dutch East India Company, became the first non-Indigenous resident of Manhattan, trading with local peoples. New Netherland was initially a commercial enterprise fostering alliances and trade with Indigenous populations. By 1624, the Dutch Republic began formal settlement, selecting the Hudson River's mouth as an ideal location for its accessibility and proximity to Albany’s fur trade hub. Indigenous hunters supplied pelts in exchange for European goods and wampum, which the Dutch began producing on Long Island.

The Dutch West India Company (WIC) was founded in 1621, and private traders were removed to make way for settlers. In 1624, 30 families arrived on Governors Island aboard the *Nieu Nederlandt*, claiming the territory. Fort Amsterdam was planned on Manhattan to protect the Hudson’s entrance. Settlement expanded slowly due to high costs, and by 1628, a smaller fort was built. It served as a trading hub, housing a barracks, church, director’s residence, and warehouse.

In 1625, additional settlers arrived with livestock, and some were sent to forts upstream and along other rivers. To boost immigration, the WIC created patroonships in 1629, offering large land grants and privileges to investors who settled 50 families within four years.

Fort Amsterdam marked the start of New York City. Peter Stuyvesant became the colony’s last Dutch Director-General in 1647, and New Amsterdam became a city in 1653. Albany, then Beverwyck, gained city rights in 1652, followed by Harlem in 1658.

In 1664, England seized New Netherland without conflict, renaming it New York after the Duke of York. The Second Anglo-Dutch War followed, and New Amsterdam became New York City in 1665. During the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1673, the Dutch briefly reclaimed and renamed it New Orange, but the 1674 Treaty of Westminster returned it to England. In exchange, the Dutch retained Suriname.