Albany is a northern suburb of North Shore, one of several cities in the Auckland metropolitan area in northern New Zealand. It is located to the north of the Waitemata Harbour, 15 kilometres northwest of the Auckland city centre.
One of the city's newest suburbs, it was until relatively recently a town in its own right, and still has a feeling of not being truly a part of the city, which lies predominantly to the southeast of it. Much of the land to the north of Albany is still semi-rural.
Albany contains the northern campus of Massey University; it also contains one of the Auckland Region's biggest sports facilities, North Harbour Stadium.
New zealand's main maximum security prison is located at Paremoremo, five kilometres to the west of Albany.
The territory of New Netherland, comprising the Northeast's largest rivers with access to the beaver trade, was provisionally a private, profit-making commercial enterprise focusing on cementing alliances and conducting trade with the diverse Indian tribes.
New Netherland was provisionally ceded by director-general Peter Stuyvesant to the English in a surprise attack on September 24, 1664 when the two European nations were at peace.
The New Amsterdam city was subsequently renamed New York, after the Duke of York—brother of the English King Charles II—who had been granted the lands with the kingly stroke of an armchair pen.
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