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Did you know... that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the
Articles of Surrender?
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The Manatus map at the full extent makes Bowery No. 1 difficult to find. Zooming into the map with a focus on the current lower Manhattan makes it easier to find, shown below as Option B:
Historical Maps of Bowery No. 1
Option A
Option B
Option C
Bowery No. 1 is marked on the Manatus map of 1639 under Willem Kieft.
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Bowery No. 1, marked on the Manatus map of 1639 under Willem Kieft next to No. 16.
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Bowery No. 1, marked on the Manatus map of 1639 under Willem Kieft next to No. 16.
Thanks, these are great. I like Option C best, as it focuses on the manor house and creek, while still showing the relationship to Fort Amsterdam.--
Pharos (
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16:14, 30 May 2021 (UTC)reply
"of Peter Stuyvesant, as well" I think it's worth giving a bit of context as to who this individual was, at this point in the lead.
Immediately afterward, the sentence says that Stuyvesant was preceded in the position as Director of New Netherland. So either it would be repetitive to say "Director of New Netherland" before Stuyvesant's name, or the sentence needs to be rewritten. This isn't my nomination though.
Epicgenius (
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21:27, 30 August 2021 (UTC)reply
"namesake of numerous local sites and institutions.[1][2][3]" those references don't need to be in the lead if they are used in the main body of the article in the "Namesakes" section (for example).
"Manatus map of 1639 ..." font on this looks a bit odd, or am I imagining it?
{{overlay}} seems to just have a parameter for title, and it's a bit bigger. We could try to resize it to be more like a regular image caption (does anyone know if <small> would suffice?)... — Rhododendritestalk \\
23:18, 30 August 2021 (UTC)reply
"came to control Bowery No. 1 when he became" came/became, maybe "took control of"?
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The Rambling Man: Thanks for thorough review! The fine folks at WikimediaNYC and I have taken care of nearly everything above. The last unanswered issue is with the font size in the Overlay image which I do not know how to address. It does look slightly bigger to me as well. --
Wil540 art (
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02:32, 2 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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... that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the
Articles of Surrender? Source: Shorto, Russell (2005-04-12). The Island at the Center of the World. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 304.
ALT1:... that with forty slaves on Stuyvesant Farm,
Peter Stuyvesant was the second-largest slaveholder in New Netherland, behind only the company that he directed? Source: Burrows, Edwin G.; Wallace, Mike (1998-11-19). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. Oxford University Press.
Article is long enough and new enough. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. QPQ needs to be done. Hook is interesting to the average reader. A truly excellent article!
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14:59, 3 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Thriley: Thanks for the review and, on behalf of my colleagues at WPNYC, thanks for the compliment. Everyone did a fantastic job on this article from start to GA promotion. I have done a QPQ now.
Epicgenius (
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19:09, 3 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Created a map with the Stuyvesant Farm highlighted based on Ratzer's Plan of New York (1770). I propose this diagram replace the two annotated images from the same basemap. This one image has some usability benefits by reducing the screen space used in the article and makes zooming to a higher resolution easier.
Insert of "The Plan of the City of New York in North America" map made by British military officer
Bernard Ratzer, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767, printed in 1770.
There's an error with what is currently footnote 27 ( Burrows & Wallace 1999, p. 50); that footnote uses sfn formatting but there isn't a linked bibliography; also there isn't actually a Burrows & Wallace 1999 source listed, it appears to be 1998. Not having the source, I don't want to presume to correct it. Vanamonde (
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