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Whoa, it is rush hour on Wall Street. Look at all these people. But watch out for that taxi.

Ooh, and the bike. Okay, well, we're standing here at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway,

here in the Financial District of New York, ground zero of U.S. capital markets. If you look

right down the block there, that's the New York Stock Exchange.

Opens at 9.30, closes at 4.

And all these suits streaming past us in the morning will stream right back out at night.

But the wall this street is so famously named for.

Where's that, you ask?

Well, nowhere to be found, I'm afraid. It did once stand here,

erected in 1653, back of the days of Dutch colonialization. Now in name only, it is still a

remnant of New Amsterdam. Like Brooklyn, like Parlam, Staten Island, evidence of a former

colony that stood strong for 50 years,

for a time protected by a wall built to fend off perceived dangers inland, when in fact,

the bigger threat, the one that would usurp them came from the sea.

Back in 2023, I spoke to author Russell Shorto about New Amsterdam, the Dutch colony on Manhattan

Island.

Russell is the best-selling author of the island at the center of the world and most

recently, taking Manhattan, the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America.

He is back with us on this episode to talk about how New Amsterdam became New York.

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