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” ...

Wander the winding paths and open fields of Central Park’s northwestern quadrant— the one closest to Columbia’s campus— and you may come across a discreet kiosk that reads, “Discover Seneca Village.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have successfully located the remnants of Seneca Village, a 19th century village (and New York City’s first community of African-American property owners) located in what is now Central ...

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 ...