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Until arrive of the Europeans, most of the area that now is New York was controlled by Indian communities. In 1524, Florentine Giovanni Di Verrazzano was the first European explorer to enter New York Harbour; he met Native American tribes such as the Lenape, Manahattoes, and Raritan.

In 1609, Henry Hudson was seeking a water route when discovered the Hudson River and claimed the area for the Dutch, within the next 20 years, many Dutch settled in lower Manhattan and called it New Amsterdam. The indigenous people were forced out the area of European settlement in a succession of bloody battles.