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from The American HeritageÂ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. A section of New York City in northern Manhattan bordering on the Harlem and East rivers. Peter Stuyvesant established the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Haarlem here in 1658. A rapid influx of African Americans beginning c. 1910 made it one of the largest Black communities in the United States.
New York was originally part of New Netherland. This Dutch colony had been founded after the area had first been explored by Henry Hudson in 1609. He had sailed up the Hudson River. By the following year, the Dutch began trading with the Native Americans.