Weatherday: The Big Dutch Apple

Cloudy through the day. Possibility of occasional drizzle but drying up in the afternoon. A clearance to partly cloudy after dark.

Light to moderate southerly breezes, and a high of 11deg.

On this day in 1674, the Dutch formally transferred land known as New Netherlands to the English colonists in North America. It included today's New York. 

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