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Celebrate Juneteenth New York City-style with performances, workshops, discussions, family activities, screenings, and ...
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 ...
One has to wonder how Olmsted felt about Seneca,” Zewde said. According to Christopher Nolan, FASLA, chief landscape architect at the Central Park Conservancy, a primarily Black community took ...
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 ...
Every year for Black History Month, Judge Derek Mosley posts daily tributes on Facebook that provide information about remarkable African-Americans and aspects of Black history often excluded from ...
There was once a thriving village called Seneca located in what became Central Park, between 81st and 89th Street on the West Side. It wasn’t a shantytown or slum, like the rest of the settlements.