With her election to the Public Service Commission, Alicia Johnson also becomes one of the first Democrats to win statewide office in 19 years.
Host Grant Yanney discusses the Black town buried beneath Central Park.
Decades before Central Park’s existence, a small part of the land was known as Seneca Village, a self-sufficient, middle-class African-American and Irish community founded in 1825 by members of The New York African Society for Mutual Relief.
A new monument will honor the legacy of a historic Black community that was displaced due to the creation of Central Park.