Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner has spent more than a decade working as a writer in New York City. Jessica Colley Clarke is a New ...

A group of researchers has developed a visual representation of Seneca Village, a historic community established in 1825 by ...

By 1832, more than two dozen Black families had purchased land in the Seneca Village area, a population explosion that was greatly aided by New York state’s abolition of slavery in 1827. Formerly ...

From 1825 to 1857, Seneca Village was located between 82nd and 89th Streets at Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The New York State Census of 1855 reported that 264 people, largely African-Americans but ...

Tavern on the Green, on the park's west side, is another popular dining destination for New American fare. What are some of ...

Long before Seneca Village, there was “The Land of the Blacks,” also referred to as the Negro Frontier, a documented Black presence in New York dating back to the early 1600s who would also eventually ...