Central Park Was Built on a Destroyed Black Community The shocking untold story behind Central Park! Before NYC's famous park existed, the land was home to Seneca Village - a thriving community of 225 Black property owners from 1825-1857. This was the largest Black landowning community in pre-Civil War New York, complete with churches, schools, and voting rights. But in 1857, the city used eminent domain to forcibly remove 1,600 residents and erase this beacon of Black freedom to build a park fo
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