Stuyvesant Farm, also known as the Great Bowery, was the estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland,...

Peter Stuyvesant (English: /ˈstaɪvəsənt/; in Dutch also Pieter and Petrus Stuyvesant, Dutch: [ˈstœyvəzɑnt]; c. 1610 – August 1672) was a Dutch colonial...

Bedford–Stuyvesant (/ˈbɛdfərd ˈstaɪvəsənt/), colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of...

Stuyvesant High School (pronounced /ˈstaɪvəsənt/), commonly referred to among its students as Stuy (pronounced /staɪ/), is a public college-preparatory...

Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village (/ˈstaɪvəsənt/), colloquially known as StuyTown, is a large post–World War II private residential development on the...

Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, later Cecil, later Bulkely-Johnson, later Goodsir (August 22, 1900 – February 7, 1976) was an American born heiress and...

own son, and conceded. A group of prominent merchants then met at Stuyvesant Farm with Nicholls' officers to draft Articles of Capitulation. The Dutch...

housing complex; Stuyvesant Square, a park in the area; and the Stuyvesant Apartments on East 18th Street, and Stuyvesant Street. His farm, called the "Bouwerij"...

Stuyvesant Street originally ran east through Petrus Stuyvesant's farm or "bowery" from Bowery Road, which today is Fourth Avenue, to the Stuyvesant manor...

Stuyvesant Square is the name of both a park and its surrounding neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park is located between 15th...