American Museum of Natural History – New York, New York
Inside the Museum of Natural History is a diorama depicting lower Manhattan around 1660. Peter Stuyvesant, then Governor of New York, is attended by a solider. They are receiving a delegation of Hackensack Indians from what is now Jersey City. On the left are the walls of the northwest bastion of the old fort which guarded the harbor.
This fort stood on the site of the present Custom House. The wide street extending to the right is Broadway. The first house in the row is No. 1 Broadway. Peter Stuyvesant stands upon grass growing near the wall of the fort. In the extreme right foreground is a tiny patch of grass, the tip of the old Common, or Bowling Green. Here Dutch sportsmen gathered for bowling. The present Bowling Green is reminiscent of this grass plot.
