Central Park, New York City [OC]SpaceBar@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.world – 372 points – 12 months ago20Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsWhat great foresight they had to create that spaceIt wasn't that heroic. They intentionally did it to decimate new black land owners.Wait, what?https://www.nbcnewyork.com/discover-black-heritage/black-history-of-new-york-before-central-park-there-was-seneca-village/3543777/Well that's depressingInteresting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.Dang
What great foresight they had to create that spaceIt wasn't that heroic. They intentionally did it to decimate new black land owners.Wait, what?https://www.nbcnewyork.com/discover-black-heritage/black-history-of-new-york-before-central-park-there-was-seneca-village/3543777/Well that's depressingInteresting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.Dang
It wasn't that heroic. They intentionally did it to decimate new black land owners.Wait, what?https://www.nbcnewyork.com/discover-black-heritage/black-history-of-new-york-before-central-park-there-was-seneca-village/3543777/Well that's depressingInteresting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.Dang
Wait, what?https://www.nbcnewyork.com/discover-black-heritage/black-history-of-new-york-before-central-park-there-was-seneca-village/3543777/Well that's depressingInteresting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.Dang
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/discover-black-heritage/black-history-of-new-york-before-central-park-there-was-seneca-village/3543777/Well that's depressingInteresting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.Dang
Interesting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.
What great foresight they had to create that space
It wasn't that heroic. They intentionally did it to decimate new black land owners.
Wait, what?
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/discover-black-heritage/black-history-of-new-york-before-central-park-there-was-seneca-village/3543777/
Well that's depressing
Interesting… it says it was 40 acres. I wonder what was in the other 95% of that land at the time? Everything on Google just mentions Seneca Village.
Dang