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Willem Verhulst was the second director of the Dutch West India Company . In 1625, Verhulst oversaw the decision to locate the company's main fortress and town on the tip of Manhattan Island in the colony of New Netherland . The settlement, which was given the name New Amsterdam , was the first permanent European settlement in what was to later New York City .