Legacy
- Peter Minuit Plaza, north of the South Ferry-Whitehall Street subway station and adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal;
- A marker in Inwood Hill Park at the supposed site of the purchase of Manhattan;
- A granite flagstaff base in Battery Park, which depicts the historic purchase;
- A school and playground in East Harlem are named for him;
- The Peter Minuit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; and
- A memorial on Moltkestraße in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)