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The search for Historic Weeksville began in 1968 in a Pratt Institute workshop on Brooklyn and New York City neighborhoods led by historian James Hurley. After reading of Weeksville in The Eastern District of Brooklyn, a 1912 book by Brooklyn historian Eugene Armbruster, Hurley and Joseph Haynes, a local resident and pilot, consulted old maps and flew over the area in an airplane in search of ...
Since the earlier part of the 19th century, there has been a large presence of African Americans in New York City. [9] Early Black communities were created after the state's final abolition of slavery in 1827. [10] The metropolis quickly became home to one of the most sizeable populations of emancipated African Americans. [11]
The large Black migration to New York City helped cause the Harlem Renaissance, a rich cultural period for the African Americans living in New York (especially in Harlem neighborhood, the namesake) between the end of World War I and the Great Depression. New York's Hispanic population increased by almost twenty times between 1940 and 2010 ...
Williamsburgh Savings Bank is built and designed by George B. Post and today is a New York City Landmarks and on the National Register of Historic Places. 1876 Brooklyn Theater Fire; Frederick A. Schroeder is the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1876 to 1877. 1878 Brighton Beach Line begins operating. Brighton Beach Hotel opens.
The Woolworth Building, built in 1913. The modern five boroughs, comprising the city of New York, were united in 1898. In that year, the cities of New York—which then consisted of present-day Manhattan and the Bronx—and Brooklyn were both consolidated with the counties of Queens and Staten Island. [3]
The superlative demographics of NYC’s five boroughs have been freshly mapped. A free, interactive online tool managed by the Department of City Planning has been updated with 2020 Census data ...
He establishes the first school that was open to African-Americans in New York City. [17] [18] 1709 – Founding of Trinity School (New York City), oldest continuously operated school in New York City. 1711 – Formal slave market established at Wall Street and the East River. 1712 – April: New York Slave Revolt of 1712. 1723 – Population ...
Seneca Village was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park. The settlement was located near the current Upper West Side neighborhood, approximately bounded by Central Park West and the axes of 82nd Street, 89th Street, and ...