Café the Schreiertower
Medieval defence tower from fourteen eighty-seven, now a café, where Henry Hudson set sail for what became New York.
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This guide to Café the Schreiertower in Amsterdam starts with the tower's popular nickname, the Weeping Tower, and the sailors'-wives legend behind it, before tracing the more likely story of how an Old Dutch word for a sharp angle got misheard over the centuries. It then turns to 1609, when English captain Henry Hudson boarded the ship Halve Maen at this wall, sent by the Dutch East India Company to find an arctic passage to Asia. Look for the plaque a New York historical society fixed to these stones in 1927.
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