When John and Elizabeth Whitehead decided to sell, it was not exactly prime real estate they were offering. The parcels were located between 83rd and 88th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues — but ...

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 ...

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” ...

A plaque presently on display in Seneca Village (photo by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) Seneca Village — the stretch of land between West 83rd and 89th streets in Central Park — is infamous, yet ...

Seneca Village, located in what would become part of Central Park, was a mid-19 th century community of free African American property owners. It was the largest such community in the city, and little ...

This post originally appeared on The History Blog. Seneca Village was a small but vibrant community founded in 1825 by free working class African-Americans in uptown Manhattan. The area from West 82nd ...

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 Falls, NY - Women took a stand for their right to vote in 1848 inside a chapel on Fall Street in the village of Seneca Falls. A century later, the village found notoriety as the likely ...