A guided walking tour through the site of Seneca Village, the largest community of free African-American property owners in pre-Civil War New York. Conservancy guides reveal how this settlement from West 82nd to 89th Street offered Black New Yorkers land ownership, voting rights, and refuge from crowded, discriminatory conditions—until eminent domain displaced all 225 residents in 1857 to make way for the Park. The tour weaves together archaeological discoveries, physical landscape clues, and the stories of families like the Williamses to resurrect a deliberately erased chapter of city history.