Gothamist

Seneca Village, one of NYC’s first African American Communities, to be honored in Central Park over Juneteenth weekend

NOTE: The date of this event has changed since this story was first published. It will now take place Sunday, June 18. The serene setting of one of New York City’s first African American communities ...
Gotham Gazette

Death of Seneca Village

Turning Manhattan swampland into Central Park’s vast acres of woodlands, meadows and ponds took16 years and cost $14 million. But building Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s “Greensward Plan” ...
AOL

Uncovering the history of Seneca Village in New York City

Most people who walk through Central Park, from tourists to lifelong New Yorkers, have no idea of the history under their feet. In 1825, a 25-year-old African American shoe shiner named Andrew ...
Gothamist

For a night, ‘The Lost Village of Seneca’ springs to life in Manhattan

For decades, Seneca Village was a thriving 19th century community predominantly of Black New Yorkers, until city officials forced the residents out in order to make way for the development of Central ...
The Nation

Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land

From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property—rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth Amendment. Greener pastures: A home in Seneca Village, ...
Publishers Weekly

The Forgotten Summer of Seneca

A grieving tween uncovers an alternate version of Seneca Village, a predominantly free Black community destroyed in 1857, in this gentle middle grade debut by Garrett (Friday I’m in Love). While ...