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 ...

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For more than a century, the story of Seneca Village had been largely forgotten. The pre-dominantly African American village was settled in what was a remote and rural area of Manhattan in between ...

Seneca Village was destroyed to pave the way for Central Park but where was it, who lived there and what is the Irish connection? Located from West 82nd to West 85th streets between Seventh and Eighth ...

NEW YORK - It looks much like the rest of Central Park. But one section, on the western edge of the green space, is quite different. It was once home to Seneca Village, a vibrant community of free ...

In February, Central Park Conservancy hosted a month-long series of free tours on Seneca Village in honor of Black History Month. These tours, which were given also to our Untapped New York Insiders ...

Seneca Village covered the area roughly between 82nd and 89th streets and Seventh and Eighth avenues in a pre-Central Park New York. Max Touhey A mostly black community forced out by the creation of ...

Seneca Village was located in what later became Central Park, and many of the earliest residents were African Americans. The village was evicted through eminent domain before the park was built. It’s ...