Peter Minuit

When the Dutch paid $24 for the island of Manhattan, it was a pretty good deal for such a centrally located piece of real estate. Now, 381 years later, the city is adding another island to its portfolio. But this one probably won't turn out to be so...

A $10 investment in South Brother Island in 1975 just made somebody $1,999,990 richer. Here are some other great deals in city history: Manhattan: City lore has it that Dutchman Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan from a group of Indians for $24 in goods,...

With rivers on three sides and 282 acres of parkland on its western border, Inwood -- the 'hood where the A train ends -- has an isolated feel that makes it seem even farther from "the city" its roughly nine-mile distance from midtown would indicate. And...

The area now known as New York City had been occupied by Native Americans for more than 11,000 years before Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine hired by the French to explore the northeastern coast, arrived at New York Bay in 1524. The area lay unmolested...

Wondering whether you can afford to buy a Manhattan apartment? Here's how to find out: Convert all the money you're willing to spend into crisp $100 bills, then put those bills in a bag. Lug that bag to the apartment in question (bend your knees!) and...

What Dutch business interests heard when Adrian Block returned to the Netherlands and told his story about spending the winter on Manhattan Island electrified them. Block had seen the future -- a country filled with furs and ready to be conquered, settled...