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Pardon my ignorance, but I never heard this story.
I guess it goes to show you the parts of history they don't teach in schools.

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Seneca Village was a small village in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, founded by freed black people.[1] Seneca Village existed from 1825 through 1857, when it was torn down for the construction of Central Park.

The village was the first significant community of African American property owners on Manhattan, and also came to be inhabited by several other minorities, including Irish andGerman immigrants. The village was located on about 5 acres (20,000 m2) between where 82nd and 89th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues[2] would now intersect, an area now covered by Central Park. A stone outcropping near the 85th Street entrance to Central Park is believed to be part of a foundation of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.[3]



I read that the average home cost around Central Park is 7 million dollars.
 
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As the campaign to create Central Park moved forward park advocates and the media began to describe Seneca Village and other communities in this area as "shantytowns" and the residents there as "squatters". The village was razed for park construction. Residents were offered $2,335 for their property.
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Sounds like what they're doing today with the gentrification in NY.
 
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As the campaign to create Central Park moved forward park advocates and the media began to describe Seneca Village and other communities in this area as "shantytowns" and the residents there as "squatters". The village was razed for park construction. Residents were offered $2,335 for their property.[3] Members of the community fought to retain their land.[10] For two years, residents resisted the police as they petitioned the courts to save their homes, churches, and schools. Some villagers were violently evicted in 1855.[3] However, in the summer of 1856, Mayor Fernando Wood prevailed, and residents of Seneca Village were given final notice. In 1857, the city government acquired all private property within Seneca Village through eminent domain. On October 1, 1857, city officials in New York reported that the last holdouts living on land that was to become Central Park had been removed.
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A movie on this could be really interesting. :leon:
 
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Woah, remember learning about the development of Central Park in college and the details of its construction and implementation to the city grid but completely missed this. I don't think this was ever discussed. Or maybe it was.. but damn. These devils have been fukking us at every turn......

I know a lot of blacks were living in LES during this time period as were an influx of immigrants from Europe. But it does kind of make sense because geographically, there were already blacks living up in the land that is Harlem today.

shyt like this is the worst because the land and the area surrounding they built Central Park on is some of the most expensive real estate in the world, arguably is the most expensive and its been this way since the development of Central Park.. who knows what this could have been if blacks continued to live here and developed this area on their own. I just read up a bit on Seneca Village and this shyt was so calculated... White people really made sure that after Reconstruction, we couldn't "have" shyt. If we moved to desirable land.. we simply got displaced. This happened in EVERY city in America and even in Canada. Some of those properties in the area surrounding central park are almost as old as the park itself.. imagine if that land and capital was in the hands of blacks.. These devils made sure we would be fukked for generations and generations to come... I know we can't speculate but shyt like this REALLY bothers me and it's just never discussed.
 
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Raul said:
I don't know about all that.
I just wanted to share a piece of history that I wasn't aware of.
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Hey, man......this type of shyt gets exposed all of the time.
My thing is, will we continue to flash outrage shyt or will we get out shyt together and move to uninhabited parts of the States and make that shyt our own?


It's Friday, btw.
 
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