Seneca Village pic trending on FB

[MikelArteta]

Canada has hogans alley and africville

 

[tmonster]

 

[Rekkapryde]

That's why I shake my head at cats selling their property for scraps in Harlem/Uptown.

 

[Kokoro]

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.

Exactly. This is the basis of white supremacy that many whites act like didnt or still doesn't exist.

Displace us from where you don't want us to be, then move us into ghettos. That way you know where all the black people are

Then keep us poor by discriminating against us and only giving us jobs as butlers, maids, dishwashers etc. That's how blacks have stayed poor for generations.

And then when blacks do get money, sometimes the nikka mentality takes over, and blacks chase forbidden fruit. That's when upperclass blacks chase white girls cuz they can get a white girl now because they have money. Its like, don't you realize her grandfather and father probably hate you

 

[OfTheCross]

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.

Seneca Village - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.