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Celebrating 400 Years of the

Greatest City in the World

Our website, FoundedByNYC.com, features events and activities that showcase our city’s amazing 400-year history.

You can also sign up for our newsletter, which will keep you up to date on events in the five boroughs and submit
information about your own events that illustrate New York City’s past so that we can showcase it on our calendar

ERIC ADAMS

025 marks a historic occasion —
our city’s 400th anniversary. It
2marks four centuries since the
first European settlement of Man-
hattan in 1625, on land then known
as Lenapehoking, the homeland of
the Lenape people. The tiny Dutch
colony began as New Amsterdam
and then changed to New York
when the English took control and
expanded rapidly. A century ago, its
boundaries increased beyond the
island of Manhattan to encompass
the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and As we commemorate our 400th anniversary, we are preparing for the next 400 years — prioritizing climate resiliency by instituting citywide com-
Staten Island.
To celebrate our city’s 400th posting, creating new parks, planting trees, and completing the first section of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (Representative/File photo)
anniversary, we are proud to an-
nounce the launch of our “Founded celebrate all our great city has to er than the sum of its parts. For four We also created a record number of
By NYC” campaign, which focuses offer, our administration is deeply centuries, New York City has been a new jobs and small businesses, shat-
on commemorating and celebrating committed to acknowledging and beacon of hope for people from all tered affordable housing records,
our city’s 400th birthday and honor- engaging with our city’s complex past. over the world, a place of religious and produced a record amount of
ing the Indigenous communities that That is why we met with Chief Brad freedom and tolerance, a place to public space for pedestrians across
came long before. The campaign KillsCrow of the Delaware Tribe fulfill the American Dream; and our the five boroughs. And, as we com-
highlights contributions from New of Indians at Gracie Mansion and administration has been working memorate our 400th anniversary, we
York City that have shaped our na- have proclaimed November 20 as hard to bring that dream a little clos- are preparing for the next 400 years
tion and affirmed our country’s place “Lenape Heritage Day.” The Lenape er for New Yorkers today. — prioritizing climate resiliency by
in the world. people are the original inhabitants of We passed the historic “City of instituting citywide composting, cre-
Our website, FoundedByNYC. this region, we acknowledge the pain Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan ating new parks, planting trees, and
com, features events and activities they have experienced and the great that will help build a new generation completing the first section of the
that showcase our city’s amazing 400- contributions that have made — and of affordable housing; proposed the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project.
year history. You can also sign up for continue to make — to our city. “Axe the Tax for the Working Class” As mayor of the greatest city in
our newsletter, which will keep you Like the Lenape, our city’s sto- to eliminate and cut city income tax- the world, I am committed to ful-
up to date on events in the five bor- ry has ultimately been one of perse- es for some of our hardest-working filling the great promise that is New
oughs and submit information about verance and triumph. Together, the New Yorkers; driven down crime York, and delivering for you. Every
your own events that illustrate New many nationalities, religions, and all last year by seizing illegal guns, day. Everywhere.
York City’s past so that we can show- ethnicities that have been a hallmark getting ghost cars and other illegal
case it on our calendar. of our city from its earliest years have vehicles off our streets, and closing Eric Adams is the Mayor of
Even as we look forward and worked to build a whole that is great- down unlicensed cannabis stores. New York City, NY

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