Why now is the best time to travel to New York

It was at the southern tip of Manhattan that the first Dutch settlers built their huts and established a trading post. They founded New Amsterdam 400 years ago; they allegedly bought the land from the indigenous tribes for a few beads - and left behind the first traces that still characterize the cityscape of New York today: Broadway was once the Native Americans' footpath across the island, Wall Street the Europeans' protective wall against the old-timers.