Seneca Village

Host Grant Yanney discusses the Black town buried beneath Central Park.

Decades before Central Park’s existence, a small part of the land was known as Seneca Village, a self-sufficient, middle-class African-American and Irish community founded in 1825 by members of The New York African Society for Mutual Relief.

A new monument will honor the legacy of a historic Black community that was displaced due to the creation of Central Park.