Emily Ngo
Egbert Viele remarked long after Central Park was built that the residents of the area we now call Seneca Village was inhabited by the “foreign born in rude huts, living off the refuse of the city.” This observation of people living in the West Eighties would no doubt also apply to any...
Most of the delegates to theSeneca Falls Conventionagreed: American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities. “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” proclaimed theDeclaration of Sentimentsthat the delegates produced, “that all menand womenare created equal,...
By 1855, Seneca Village was home to 225 people, two-thirds of them Black. About half of Seneca Village’s Black residents owned their own home, which also gave them the right to vote. The government bought the land by the power of eminent domain and Seneca Village residents were forced ...
Seneca A. Ladd is named Treasurer (equivalent to today’s President and CEO). 1873- 1898 During and immediately after the Civil War, the U.S. economy booms. This boom is accompanied by significant financial expansion and speculation. Between 1867 and 1873, more than 30,000 miles of new ...
Outside of the park in Salamanca, visit theSeneca-Iroquois National Museum(open Monday-Friday), with a cultural center and permanent exhibits such as a Log Cabin Room, a Longhouse Room, and an exhibit giving thanks to the birds, animals, and plant life on Earth. ...
Slavery was abolished in New York state in 1827, but in practice, black city residents had few of the property rights as their white neighbors. The African-American settlement of Seneca Village was eradicated by the creation of Central Park, and blacks were not welcome in many New York neighb...
s Ridgewood Park was located. This was the second home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and as I had to pass it in order to get to Wallace’s Ridgewood Park, I also filmed the location of the second home of The Brooklyn Dodgers which was located between Cypress and Seneca Avenues, and George ...
Seneca says that eating ripe figs at a picnic brings “me a New Year feast every day, and I make the New Year happy and prosperous by good thoughts and greatness of soul.” Figs—only figs—that he claims is a substitute for bread. It is among the oddest main dishes for a... Mur...
What’s more, Fuller was missing the landmark gathering of feminists that took place in late July at Seneca Falls, New York. Led by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, the gathering marked a bold and concrete step toward addressing many of the issues Fuller had ...