what is pingster
Pinkster Celebration Pinkster is a holiday that was celebrated over several days by African and Dutch New Yorkers throughout the 1700s. Pinkster was brought to the New World by Dutch settlers in the 1620s and flourished in the areas of heaviest Dutch settlement: the Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, and western Long Island. These same areas also had significant populations of enslaved Africans from the 1600s until emancipation in New York in 1827.