NYC used to be called New Amsterdam or "Nieuw Amsterdam in Dutch".
New Amsterdam was what NYC or New York City was primarily known as from it's establishment in 1624 to 1626 until 1664.
NYC was founded by the Dutch West India Company and it served as the capital of the New Netherland colony before it was captured by the English, who then renamed it to New York in 1665.
The original settlement of NYC is when Dutch colonists established a trading post on Manhattan Island and named the settlement New Amsterdam in the year of 1626.
However in the year 1664, the English then took control of the area and renamed it New York, in honor of the Duke of York or later King James II.
The Dutch also regained control of it briefly from 1673 to 1674 and named the city of New York to New Orange, before it was then permanently transferred to the English.
And prior to the European settlement, the Lenape people had inhabited the area, and referred to Manhattan as Manahatta or hilly island and the region as Lenapehoking.
New York City or NYC as it's now known today is also composed of 5 boroughs, which was formed in 1898 and sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
At New York City's core is Manhattan, which is a densely populated borough that’s among the world’s major commercial, financial and cultural centers.
New York City's iconic sites include skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building and sprawling Central Park.
Broadway theater is staged in neon-lit Times Square.