Central Park: What Lies Beneath
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Seneca Village - A Precursor to Harlem
The entire territory that now encompasses Central Park was seized through the process of eminent domain. There's a German and Irish immigrant settlement that exists kind of right on the boundaries of Seneca Village. All of those folks are forcibly evicted as well. And any other person right who owns property or has just kind of settled informally in that area. They're also evicted from the land. So it really is a precursor to Harlem becoming the premier African American community of America, a century later, really.
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