NY400

[1] The 2009 commemoration was inspired by a Dutch-American Foundation, Henry Hudson 400, that organized a chain of events in the Netherlands and New York during 2009.

[5] Sponsored by the Embassy of the Netherlands and NYC & Company, the event was also known as the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial in New York State, also commemorating the achievements of Robert Fulton and Samuel de Champlain, after the Hudson–Fulton Celebration a century previous.

Design for the campaign was by a collaboration between two artists, the Swiss Cornelia Blatter and the Dutch Marcel Hermans.

[6] Visits to New York City were made by a replica of the Half Moon and another of the Onrust, as well as Vermeer's The Milkmaid at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[11] The event's architectural legacy includes the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion at Peter Minuit Plaza at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the Walkway over the Hudson as a pedestrianized former railroad bridge at Poughkeepsie.