title: Stuyvesant
text: # Stuyvesant
  
  Stuyvesant may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Peter Stuyvesant (1592–1672), the last governor of New Netherland
  * Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805), New York landowner and merchant
  * Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1778–1847), lawyer, landowner and philanthropist.
  * Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1843–1909), socialite and land developer
  * Stuyvesant Fish (1851–1923), American businessman
  
  ## Places
  
  * Stuyvesant, New York, a town in Columbia County, New York, United States
  * Stuyvesant Street (Manhattan), a street in Manhattan
  * Stuyvesant Square, a park in Manhattan, and the surrounding neighborhood
  * Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn
  * Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
  * Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village
  * Stuyvesant Apartments
  * Stuyvesant High School, a high school in Manhattan
  
  ## Other
  
  * Peter Stuyvesant (cigarette), a cigarette brand by British American Tobacco
  * Stuyvesant Handicap, American Thoroughbred horse race
  