In 1654, the place where now New York is located was called New Amsterdam.
Not a place, but the city itself was called New Amsterdam, since it was founded in 1613 by the Dutch, and in 1664 it handed over the colony to the English during the war. The city was named New York City in honor of the Duke of York. The Dutch in 1673 took the city back and named New Orange, a year later exchanged under the treaty for Suriname. The city occupied a piece of Manhattan adjacent to the sea. The island was passed by a road that later turned into the only curved street - Broadway.