Peter Stuyvesant

He stomped through New Amsterdam on a wooden leg and lost it to the English anyway. The director-general, the stubborn Dutchman, the farm that became the East Village

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Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.