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| David Pietrusza's Amsterdam Author David Pietrusza hails originally from Amsterdam, New York and presents this webpage in the city's honor. |
| St. Stanislaus School, Cornell Street—operated by the Felician nuns. Amsterdam, NY |
| The old Kresge's on West Main Street. New York. It featured a modest lunch counter (turkey dinner for thirty-five cents) and root beer stand (five cents a mug). circa. 1960. |
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| The author (at left) assists his great-uncle Anthony Lenczewski behind the bar part of the "bar & grill." |
| The author grew up here at 161 Church Street, then known as "A. Lenczewski's Bar & Grill." This photo shows the building being demolished in the early 1960s to house the new headquarters of the Amsterdam Federal Savings and Loan. |
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East Main Street circa 1900. |
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| West Main Street Amsterdam, NY—Whelan's Drugs and Brownies Lunch c. 1960 |
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| East Main Street, Amsterdam, New York (looking West) circa 1960. |
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| The Elks Club and the Amsterdam Savings Bank on Division Street. |
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| Alderman David Pietrusza, State Senator Hugh T. Farley, Assemblman Paul D. Tonko, and Lt. Governor Mary Ann Krupsak at the 75th Anniversary of PNA Council 113. |
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| St. Stanislaus Church, Cornell Street—one of the most beautiful anywhere. |
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| National Merit Scholars at Wilbur H. Lynch High School in 1967. |
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| Class of 1967 Wilbur H. Lynch High School. |
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Amsterdam is still known primarily for having manufactured carpets, but in its heyday also produced brooms, pearl buttons, underwear (they're all on the old city seal)—and also linseed oil. |
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Guy Park Manor, Amsterdam's oldest structure. |