Most people who walk through Central Park, from tourists to lifelong New Yorkers, have no idea of the history under their feet. In 1825, a 25-year-old African American shoe shiner named Andrew ...

For decades, Seneca Village was a thriving 19th century community predominantly of Black New Yorkers, until city officials forced the residents out in order to make way for the development of Central ...

SENECA FALLS - Seneca Falls is steeped in women's rights history and sprinkled with Hollywood lore. Yet a squabble over taxes could turn this 179-year-old village in central New York into a historical ...

At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of State ...

He served as Manhattan borough historian from 1997 to 2005. He also dug deeply into the history of Seneca Village, a mostly Black settlement in what became Central Park. By Richard Sandomir One day ...