The dwellings were demolished and Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux began to build Central Park. We don't know what happened to the people buried in the two Seneca Village cemeteries we know of.

Mr. Staples is a member of the editorial board. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has a long history of “period rooms” that use art, architecture and furnishings to convey a ...

The serene setting of one of New York City’s first African American communities is the inspiration for a Juneteenth commemoration taking place in Central Park on Sunday. Seneca Village was ...

Before Central Park was built, a predominantly African American community was torn down to make room for it. Now a monument is being made to commemorate the village. Seneca Village was New York ...

If you want to read more about the community, check out the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History, or the exhibit through the Central Park Conservancy. This is the fifth ...

More than 1,600 people were displaced by Central Park, including Manhattan’s first known community of African-American property owners, Seneca Village. From 1825 to 1857, Seneca Village was located ...

By Lola Fadulu Before the Civil War, a predominantly Black community flourished in Seneca Village, on the land that is now Central Park. On Sunday, as part of a commemoration of Juneteenth ...

Seneca Village, a community of predominately Black property owners in what’s now Central Park, is being commemorated to mark the 200-year anniversary of its founding. A map from cartographer Egbert ...

On June 15, the Central Park Conservancy carried out its third annual “Juneteenth in Seneca Village” celebration. The event, held at at the Seneca Village Landscape, aimed to pay tribute to ...

Black property ownership remained rare in New York during this time, indicating the relative prosperity of Seneca Village’s inhabitants. Part of the impetus for constructing Central Park was the ...