| An Italian explorer, Giovanni da
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| | quantity of its produce. In the 1920s,
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| Verrazano, first discovered Manhattan in
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| | jazz musicians began to call the city by
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| 1524. He was working for the king of
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| | this colorful name because it was the
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| France. He raised the French flag,
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| | biggest and the best thing New York State
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| claimed the land for the French, and
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| | had to offer.Even in the 17th century,
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| founded a small village. One hundred
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| | when there were only a few hundred
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| years later, the Dutch defeated the
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| | settlers in the city, 18 different
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| French rivals when they took Manhattan in
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| | languages were spoken. The first large
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| the early part of the next century. After
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| | groups of immigrants after the Dutch and
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| this victory, the Dutch held the colony
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| | English settlers were the Italians, who
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| until the English took it from them in
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| | began to arrive in the early 1800s.
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| 1664.According to one story, it was as a
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| | People from all over the Europe followed.
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| result of the Dutch presence that the
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| | The Irish came to the city in their
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| city had become known as The Big Apple.
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| | hundreds to escape starvation when the
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| The governor of the Dutch colony, Peter
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| | Irish potato crop failed in the 1840s.
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| Stuyvesant, began planting apple
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| | The greatest numbers came in 1907, when
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| orchards, and, in due course, the state
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| | 1,004,756 people poured into the country.
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| of New York became famous for the
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