Since I was visiting the Upper West Side for a Fairway moment, I decided to go looking for the memorial plaque commemorating Seneca Village, the Black settlement that conveniently disappeared to make room for Central Park.
I found no memorials, plaques, markers - nothing. It's almost like Seneca Village didn't exist.
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There are many theories about how Seneca Village got its name, according to the New York Historical Society: it could have been named for the Seneca tribe of Native Americans, or a distortion of the word “Senegal,” where many of... Read More
That ain’t nothing new, unfortunately. :(
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Loved the travelogue!