Old New York

IVO DAWNAY

Taking Manhattan By Russell Shorto Swift Press £20 If the art of the deal has a global HQ, it has to be the famously transactional US President's home town – New York or, more specifically, Manhattan. Deal-making lies buried deep in its early history and collective DNA. New York – or New Amsterdam as it then was – became the capital of the provincial extension of the Dutch Republic 400 years ago. In 1625, Broadway was still an Indian trail and Wall Street merely the location of a small town's northern ramparts. Yet, according to a new history, it was largely the commercial genius of the Dutch – together with a smattering of English realpolitik – that fuelled New York's eventual takeover from the British capital as the world's new…

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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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