New York City the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. In 1664, the city was named in honor of the Duke of York, who would become King James II of England. James's older brother, King Charles II, had appointed the Duke proprietor of the former territory of New Netherland, including the city of New Amsterdam, which England had recently seized from the Dutch. During the Wisconsinan glaciation, 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over
German Society of the City of New York German Society of the City of New York The German Society of the City of New York was established in 1784, and was concerned with the smooth immigration of the Germans into the USA as well as the bureaucratic affairs of German-Americans. Founded on the model of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by, among others, John Christoph Kunze and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , the company initially supported the German-American churches in New York. With the introduction of large immigration waves from the 1830s, the "German Society" dealt with the smooth running of immigration. This included the fact