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Lives Displaced By Central Park Take Center Stage In New Play
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/04/436938527/lives-displaced-by-central-park-take-center-stage-in-new-play?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialA new play reveals some little-known history about the land that became New York City's Central Park: People used to live there.
Beginning in 1825, about 300 people — mainly free African-Americans — lived in a village that spanned a portion of the park's 843 acres in Manhattan, between 82nd and 89th streets, east of Central Park West. It was called Seneca Village.
Cynthia Copeland, one of the lead researchers of the site with the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History, says its residents, which also included Irish and German immigrants, were targeted in newspapers with insults, including racial slurs.
Beginning in 1825, about 300 people — mainly free African-Americans — lived in a village that spanned a portion of the park's 843 acres in Manhattan, between 82nd and 89th streets, east of Central Park West. It was called Seneca Village.
Cynthia Copeland, one of the lead researchers of the site with the Institute for the Exploration of Seneca Village History, says its residents, which also included Irish and German immigrants, were targeted in newspapers with insults, including racial slurs.
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