History of Central Park

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[@geraldjarvis2115]

You skipped the part when they ran the black people out of there in the 1800s.... Why?

[@joseteranramirez9032]

Whitewashing history to fit the feel good narrative

[@toni_wood]

I saw Central Park for the first time yesterday. I was rendered speechless and in awe.

[@AlexiHarding]

I love visiting the park, so learning about its history makes the experience even better! Thanks for sharing!

[@Cameo131]

Wait until you hear about its real history

[@pedenmk]

I have a good friend who lives near me in western North Carolina. She's from NYC and still has that accent. She's wanting to go to Manhattan and visit. Time will tell I moved here from Montana. Great Video THANKS

[@jakubheliniak1156]

What about Seneca Village?

[@jimmykrookz8595]

Did you also watch that video by Vox

[@jakubheliniak1156]

@@jimmykrookz8595 I dont recall the channel actually :/

[@toni_wood]

I used to live in New York and NEVER have been to Central Park! I have seen pictures of it and would probably cry if I ever saw it in person... I often imagine and dream of getting a tour of it from my favorite male actor...and favorite singer....lol.. 🌼💐😭

[@Mandy-cn8sq]

😮 yeah i herd some New Yorkers never been to time square or liberty island because they are just tourist traps

[@toni_wood]

I got to finally accomplish bucketlist dream of seeing Central Park Yesterday. I was rendered speechless and in awe...

[@truefalse934]

@@Mandy-cn8sq very, especially Times Square (no native likes to go there bc of how touristy it gets, and the over abundance of scammers-such as the infamous Disney costume characters, cd scammers, etc.)

[@truefalse934]

@@toni_wood omg! I’m so happy for you!! I’m glad that you had an amazing experience!! 😄

[@tangaperry9297]

Can’t wait to see this park next year

[@42846GAVIN]

Central Park should never change.

[@umbershahid6754]

Oh my god

[@umbershahid6754]

Over 15.3 billion trees are cut down each year.

[@bgimusic]

great video!

[@jinjin0135]

How dare u ignore Seneca Village history 😤

[@chattyash]

What happened to the black people who lived there before it was a park?

[@ultimaterescreen]

They were forced to move. Happened to a lot of people back then, but you know this.

[@dudewhat4813]

Not only black people. The Irish also

[@yaboi9419]

In 1860 less than 2 percent of the city’s population was black.... it was nearly all white Irish being moved.

[@dalpofficial]

@@yaboi9419 in 1855, Seneca Village was a community of approx. 300 black residents, with a small percentage of German and Irish moving in later.

[@HeyLiLiBaby]

@@yaboi9419 that’s still hundreds of thousand of people percentages are misleadin

[@KassiaK]

lol acting insane to not be bothered is so relatable

[@camelpeterpan4338]

...and it’s never mentioned how they got all that land from the already established communities/buildings 🧐🧐 seems like there would have been a shit ton of negotiations to pull that feat (I sense some whitewashing among us)

[@captainjackpugh6050]

Among us???

[@Eli-cq8jq]

Thank you! Bagels & Walks posted Central Park fireworks.

[@newyorkeranew]

Much focus on Seneca Village, which is fair but isolated. For a start, the Americas were stolen from natives, often at gun point. When it came to Manhattan, the massive grid evicted a constant stream of many thousands as it bulldozed north. Finally, 1,600 people were evicted to create Central Park, less than 300 of whom lived in Seneca Village. There was a unique tragedy in the loss of Seneca Village. Even so, when speaking about the Village, we can remember that all of those who lost their home and, often, livelihood. We can remember, too, it was part of a process that has evicted people for centuries, even today.

[@paulybarr]

At .35 " The mountains of human refuge..." He means ' refuse.'

[@scarboroughlifestyleGaming416]

It takes balls to rock a bowtie

[@cesarrobledo2583]

Facts

[@allisonoconnor8055]

This was. ....... Way long ago! The fashion of the day. I think bow ties are a classic.

[@dimabeloruchev2260]

What city is it in?

[@pauljamieson333]

I hope to go there on day 👍

[@michaeldicerto6265]

DO NOT CARVE IT INTO SMALLER PARKS. Its a treasure as is. Greedy real estate folk would love to get their paws on it.

[@leonchalita2169]

What an amazing video!

[@ccsr]

Pretty disgraceful not to mention the real history of that land and what was destroyed to make a park.

[@NYamutYN]

Is it true that when it was designed Central Park was meant to be the Emerald stone at the centre of the city? Sort of like a big giant thorn that your expected to “pick”?

[@carlosdasilva3993]

That's the place that I go to think, rest e enjoy nature. NY without CENTRAL PARK dos not exist.

[@alilouise7893]

when i think central park i think stolen land

[@notthereyet2625]

Facts

[@garyjackson3531]

Do tell.

[@michellebrown8988]

What of the Seneca Village ?? Lots of blacks and other races kicked out , so they could have their public park .....

[@yaboi9419]

In 1860 less than 2 percent of the city’s population was black.... it was nearly all white Irish being moved.

[@JacobLozano-mr8ll]

@@yaboi9419 sadly black people wouldn’t care about the Irish

[@garyjackson3531]

Relocation for the public good is one of the few legitimate uses of eminent domain. These days, thanks to a Democrat controlled Supreme Court (at the time) Democrats use eminent domain to take land and give it to their cronies in hope of more tax dollars, that never materialize. That's obscene.

[@blahdeblaaah9445]

You found Robert Effing Moses, philanthropists, and crime as worthy of note in a six minute video on the history of this park. Are you ok?

[@TheSlynative]

This guy skipped over a pretty big part of how this obtained.

[@CédricMANDIL]

What is the name of this man?

[@markybarky8661]

All I see in central park is birkenhead Park

[@harryantony5714]

I'm only a 2 min walk from there and people use to do drugs in its a shame ) :

[@newyorkeranew]

@@harryantony5714 😢😢

[@newyorkeranew]

Several others as well but, yes, especially Birkenhead. Good catch.

[@lostlakepictures7378]

This guy will now be what I think of when I think of pretentious Easterner types.

[@mohammadayub2760]

We need to plant much mour trees best way 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

[@steph-dl7ye]

I wait for the day that Black history will be in the same category as American history

[@yaboi9419]

In 1860 less than 2 percent of the city’s population was black.... it was nearly all white Irish being moved.

[@younglord7805]

Why color the history? Why not just American history? Are blacks not American? Tired of this race hating bs go away

[@garyjackson3531]

Run along Democrat, the adults are talking. Here's some history for you.... The first legally registered slave holder in America was Black.

[@TheQuenn10]

They wiped out the black village that was in Central Park so don’t talk about history and leaving parts out

[@iranjackheelson]

2:33 This is not Sheep Meadow...

[@ianhopcraft9894]

'Is it too large?' is NOT a legitimate question, it is an insult to the citizens and nature. Healthy parks increase in size - they do not diminish.

[@newyorkeranew]

It’s a very important question. Not today, but it was in the 1850s when the land was created. Central Park is certainly a treasure but it was built miles north of the crowded city. Workers, who desperately needed open space, didn’t have the time to travel or the money for horse cars north. Proposed alternatives emphasized many smaller parks closer to the people who needed them most.

[@ianhopcraft9894]

@@newyorkeranew Thanks for that information, sorry for the rant but I hate to see green spaces removed incrementally when they are so rare and precious.

[@umbershahid6754]

Over 15.3 billion trees are cut down each year.

[@umbershahid6754]

Oh my god

[@garyjackson3531]

So? Trees are crops. like corn and wheat. Go. Learn. Things.

[@big5031]

Shame on you for not including the history of the people of Seneca Village. This is exactly why CRT is important. You totally omitted them from history. Smh

[@younglord7805]

🤮🤮

[@younglord7805]

I'm black I don't give fu**

[@Sean-jc6cu]

So what? Irish people also lived there. It is what it is

[@ShellymanStudios]

@@Sean-jc6cu Ikr

[@truefalse934]

@@younglord7805 what?? 1: you’re mostly not and just being a weird “edgy” internet freak, and 2: go find a new hobby, other than being a low life on the internet 🤨🥱

[@lucky1206]

For as much land humans have taken out to make buildings, homes, malls, freeways, bridges, and much more...Central Park is not big enough. There should be a whole state where land can not be built on and where it is always free to every wild and free animals in North America that was here before and after. Fact...Lions and Cheetahs use to be common in North America until people thirst for fur was too great for them to survive. Many animals that you see in Africa was once so abundant in North America.

[@jason3473]

Yes I agree 100%.. the closest thing to that is the Adirondack Park in upstate NY. It is over 6 million acres (larger than Vermont) and it protected the the NY State Constitution as "Forever Wild" and it is protected by law. There are millions of acres of protected Wilderness in the Adirondacks. But I agree, far too much land has been destroyed by mans greed.. and alot of the remaining land is being destroyed. There used to be mountain lions and wolves in the Adirondacks until over hunting in the 1800's wiped them out. Hopefully now some native species can make a comeback.

[@truefalse934]

@@jason3473 you know national parks exist, right? (They were literally made to protect the wildlife and environmental preservation in the US, though, most are in the western half of the country 😕)

[@jimmykrookz8595]

Just live in the jungle then

[@lucky1206]

@@jimmykrookz8595 I actually told that to myself. If I was ever really homeless, then I would live in the mountains because there is no jungle near me

[@lucky1206]

@@truefalse934 national parks only cover barely 2% of the total landmass that is untouchable. Not even 10 miles outside any park, there is already hotels, restaurants, theme parks, and so on. So they're is no such thing as being completely wild when you run out of water, you can drive to Walmart right outside the park. National Parks as big as they, are not big enough in my opinion. If you look at any given Park from above you see how little land it covers compared to the rest of the state its in.

[@fbdentertainment9969]

Cool

[@Raymond-ip3fm]

Yeah! They not telling the true history of Seneca village when blacks Germans and the Irish lived in harmony together. And they owned the land.

[@samwright7452]

why would anyone want to go to nyc to start with

[@최로봇]

Harvard doing Columbia’s work

[@BROOKLYNAD6]

Open for anyone? Back then, I doubt that.

[@garyjackson3531]

It was open to everyone. Now run along Democrat, the adults are talking.

[@draganamarjanovic6518]

❤️💚🎩✨✨✨✨🎓👒🌍🧭😊

[@sondusrashid891]

I only wanna see how it looks like

[@martyhuntington5278]

Is it not like the show South Park?

[@SoupyMittens]

Central Park is overrated. My local dog park has more history than that glorified field

[@DVXRK]

Nononononononononono

[@Cameo131]

Oh… so this is the whitewashed version of Central Park history. Surprised they didn’t play the theme from “Friends.”

[@garyjackson3531]

@@Cameo131 Sorry, but I'm not a Democrat... so not a Klansman. It's obvious you are not intelligent enough to understand things. Just a typical racist.