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Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:41:07 -0500

On a warm, sunny day, the area called Cedar Hill could be the subject of an impressionist painting. Central Park was planned in the 1850's by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. A majority-Black settlement named Seneca Village was seized through eminent domain and razed, enabling opening in 1876. It is owned by the City but, since 1998, managed by the nonprofit Central Park Conservancy, which brought it back from its deteriorated condition in the 1970's and 80's.