Before Central Park

What was in Central Park before it became our Central Park? Sara Cedar Miller, historian emerita of the Central Park Conservancy and author of “Before Central Park” offers a glimpse. We’ll learn about the 17th and 18th c. Dutch and English landowners; the land divisions of the 19th century; New York’s Common Lands; the early Black community of Seneca Village; the immigrant experience, and lastly, who paid what to whom so Central Park could be constructed.