Surviving

Two years after the English established the colony of Jamestown, in 1609, the Dutch East Indian Company hired an English sailor to find a northeast passage to the lands of India. After an unsuccessful search Henry Hudson, the English sailor sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and reached up to present day Albany. Hudson then went back to Europe and declared the entire Hudson River for him and his employers. After a few failed attempts of colonization the Dutch Parliament declared the Dutch East Indian Company a national company with this some Dutch families established the settlement on what is today Manhattan. Like the English colonist in Virginia the Dutch did not pay much attention to the benefits of agriculture and instead focused their economy on fur-trade. This was perhaps because of the roughness of the soil and the harsh conditions of the weather which made quite the difficult for the profiting of agriculture. It has to be noted that unlike the English in Virginia the Dutch did not took the settlement of Manhattan but instead purchased from the Indians of the area. The settlement did, indeed, grew at a slower pace than other English settlements but settlers eventually made their way up the Hudson River.     

The slow expansion of the settlement was perhaps, one of the major causes of dispute between the Dutch, the English, and some Indian tribes. In order to their fur trade business the Dutch had to keep peace with the Indians of the Area that way they could still make business with them but corruption and lax trading policy only increased hostilities between the two. With the English was a little different, as the Dutch moved slowly up the Hudson River, the English had already made some claims of the area and forced the Dutch to retrieve to what they already owned. In 1640 the Dutch opened their trade monopoly to other areas. This new policy benefited Amsterdam to a great degree but it was the beginning to even greater disputes between Native Americans and Europeans settlers.

Wyltwyck was the second largest Dutch settlement in the area and unlike Manhattan, it grew quicker. This economic success although it brought great profits to the Dutch it was the spark that set further disputes between the Dutch and others Europeans settlers. The Dutch lost the colony of New Netherlands to the English during the Anglo-Dutch War of 1664 only some years after the founding of Wyltwyck.
Sources I used:  

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm