Announcing an epic new Bowery Boys mini series, The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands,

exploring the connections between New York City and that fascinating European country.

Simply put, you don't get New York City as it is today without the Dutch who first settled here 400 years ago. The names of Staten Island, Broadway, and the Bronx

actually come from the Dutch, and the names of places like Brooklyn and Harlem come from

actual Dutch cities and towns.

Over the course of several weekly shows, we'll dig deeper into the history of those Dutch settlements in New Amsterdam and New Netherlands.

From the first Walloon settlers

to the arrival of Peter Stuyvesant.

But we'll be telling that story not from New York,

but from the other side of the Atlantic in the Netherlands walking the streets of

Amsterdam and other Dutch cities searching for clues and will be joined by

acclaimed Dutch historians.

The ties between Amsterdam and New Amsterdam are everywhere

if you only you open your eyes and know your history.

Uncovering new revelations and new perspectives on the Dutch Empire.

But it does show you that the early republic of the Netherlands

was ruthlessly capitalist.

And finding surprising relationships between New York and Amsterdam.

I literally can point to five, six locations within walking distance of where we are

that connect to this broader story of New Netherlands.

Greg and I visited Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, Harlem,

and more places with ties to New York.

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