Although conventionally referred to in English today as " Peter Stuyvesant ", Stuyvesant's given name was actually " Pieter " or " Petrus "; " Peter " is not found in historical records.

To honor Stuyvesant's dedication to education and New Amsterdam's legal-cultural tradition of toleration under Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan was named after him.

In Stuyvesant's Resolution Book while he was in charge of the ABC islands, there is document # 4b in the Curaçao Papers, presenting the multi-ethnic makeup of the garrison and the use of local Indians as cowboys: ".... whereas the number of Indians, together with those of Aruba and Bonnairo, have increased

Other isolated cases include Stuyvesant's 2002 Class President Amit Friedlander, who received local press coverage in September 2006 after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Peter Stuyvesant's House of Mirrors was founded in 1651 and he charged one Dutch gulden for admission.

The British encountered little resistance, perhaps due to the unpopularity of the Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant .< ref > Stuyvesant's council took several measures restricting religion in New Netherland, heightening his unpopularity, and he was also known for being hot-tempered.

* April 26 – The Dutch West India Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's request to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam ( Manhattan ).

Stuyvesant Street originally ran east through Petrus Stuyvesant's farm or " bowery " from Bowery Road, which today is Fourth Avenue, to the Stuyvesant manor house.

Irving's A History of New York gave Quidor the subjects for the four paintings in the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Dancing on the Battery ( c. 1860 ), Peter Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate ( 1864 ), Voyage of the Good Oloff up the Hudson ( 1866 ), and The Voyage from Communipaw to Hell Gate ( 1866 ).

" Just as many of his descendants would enumerate George III's wrongdoings, so he described Stuyvesant's ; he had, for example, imposed magistrates on the people of Flushing " without election or voting.

Stuyvesant's biannual literary magazine, Caliper, is one of the oldest high school literary publications in the nation, and helps the Stuyvesant literary community flourish in an environment focusing on math and science.

Along with Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew, they began an initiative for more diversity in the city's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding that since only a few districts send the majority of Stuyvesant's and Bronx Science's students, that the SHSAT be suspended altogether " until the Board of Education can show that the students of each middle school in the system have had access to curricula and instruction that would prepare them for this test regardless of their color or economic status.

Peter Stuyvesant's house

Stuyvesant's accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan.

Among the projects built by Stuyvesant's administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway.

* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Stuyvesant's Biology and Geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology ( a course sequence composed of a molecular science class in the Fall and a molecular genetics class in the Spring ), human physiology, medical ethics, medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, anthropology and sociobiology, vertebrate zoology, laboratory techniques, medical human genetics, botany, the molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and psychology.

Their activities include but are not limited to: monitoring for department offices, ushering for school theater productions, volunteering at parent teacher conferences, working at Soup Kitchens, tutoring at local elementary schools, participating in various walks ( such as the MS Walk and the AIDS Walk ), and volunteering at Stuyvesant's Open House Events.

The Spectator is Stuyvesant's official in-school newspaper.

The Spectator, founded in 1915, is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications.

Stuyvesant's yearbook is Indicator.

Each year, the Mathematics Department publishes the Math Survey, which has been the debut of many of Stuyvesant's notable mathematicians.

Stuyvesant's academic teams include its nationally recognized Speech and Debate team, Quiz Bowl, chess, and math, which regularly compete successfully at major regional ( New York State Mathematics League ), national ( American Regions Mathematics League ), and international ( International Mathematical Olympiad ) tournaments, and whose members fill up a considerable percentage of the New York City Math Team.

Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.

Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.

The recommendation of the Department -- as well as the decision of the appeal board -- was based entirely on the local board file, not on an FBI report.

The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.

I was saved from making the decision as the phone rang, and the girls were upon me instantly.

Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

The decision was made in Zurich by Prince Boun Oum, Premier of the pro-Western royal Government ; ;

Berger's decision to sue for the full amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning press conference.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

The Supreme Court decision in mid-1960 was in the case of a company making sewer pipe from clay which it mined.

Every decision was made quickly on sound grounds.

It was up to her to save Poor John, dear John, to undo the wrong she had done, but she trembled at the decision as at the brink of a cold stream.

He was a director of S. & M. and must have been in on the decision.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.