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This is Mayor Robert F. Wagner I'm glad you're here today to help us celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the city of New York it was back in fifteen twenty four and had a talent Explora Giovanni Di Verizon outsailed to find a route to the east but discovered instead this great Haba. A century later that settlers bought an island from the Indians for trinkets worth twenty four dollars and called it New Amsterdam it looked like this. Here was the first church and the house where the governor Peter Stuyvesant lived and the community windmill. And this was day here Street today we call it Broadway and the heavy wall they built to protect the colonies northern border now Wall Street. Four years later the colony was captured by the English who changed its name to New York just three hundred years ago since that time people of every nationality color and belief have come here to find opportunity to live in freedom and peace today on behalf of each and every one of the eight million individuals who choose to live and work here I'm happy and proud to welcome you to man's greatest achievement the city of New York.