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New Amsterdam's beginnings, unlike most other colonies in the New World, were thoroughly documented in maps. During the time of New Netherland's colonization the Dutch were Europe's pre-eminent cartographers. Moreover, as the Dutch West India Company's delegated authority over New Netherland was threefold, maintaining sovereignty on behalf of the States General, generating cash flow through commercial enterprise for its shareholders and funding the province's growth, its directors regularly required that censuses be taken. These tools to measure and monitor the province's progress were accompanied by accurate maps and plans. These surveys, as well as grassroots activities to seek redress of grievances,[4] account for the existence of some of the most important of the early documents.[5]
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John Amsterdam, the enigmatic immortal, is played by Danish actor Nikolaj Coster Waldau, who definitely sports the most intriguing face of the new season -- this guy looks like he's lived the history of New York. Though the bulk of his work has been in Danish films, he's played various Euros in a handful of English-language movies and has always gotten good press. Zuleikha Robinson (John's detective partner Eva Marques) was in The Lone Gunmen and Rome. Every character of this sort has a confidante, and here it's Omar (Obie-winning stage actor Stephen Henderson).
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The New Amsterdam Theatre was known as the home of the Ziegfield Follies from 1913 through 1927. In the 1930s, Fred and Adele Astaire made their last joint appearance in the revueThe Band Wagon. After the 1997 restoration, Disney’s The Lion King opened and won several Tony awards.
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In the 1650s, as the second generation reached maturity, New Amsterdam attained both stability and prosperity. Regulations on subjects ranging from sanitation and fire prevention to observance of the Sabbath were imposed by Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant, bringing order to the burgeoning community, while improving the conditions of everyday life. Commercial opportunities expanded as local merchants engaged in trade along the North American coast, in the Caribbean, and over the ocean to Europe and Africa. A merchant elite emerged and, with the backing of small traders and artisans, successfully pressed for a city government that would promote local interests and temper the authoritarianism of company rule.
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A key element in the brave new world of 21st-century Amsterdam is the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1 (tel. 020/788-2000). An ocean of glass and steel constructed on uncompromisingly modern lines, this concert hall for modern, jazz, and experimental music opened in 2005 on the IJ waterfront east of Centraal Station. The jazz club Bimhuis, Piet Heinkade 3 (tel. 020/788-2188), occupies a kind of bolted-on annex at the building's rear.
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At this juncture, there is no point in advancing detailed plans unless the State Legislature reserves the space for the Historic New Amsterdam park. Like the creation of the city�s Central Park, the land would need to be set aside by the Legislature before content can be decided upon or a business plan created. Visually, the park may best be imagined, for now, as some variation of Mystic Seaport, Colonial Williamsburg or Plimoth Plantation. Accordingly, the development process won�t lend itself to the usual issuance of standard Requests-for-Proposals (RFP�s) by city or state development agencies.
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