Manhattan could soon gain another landmarked property that helps chronicle the history of New York’s earliest Black residents.
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On June 18, New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to take the first step toward designating the three-story building at 50 West 13th Street a city landmark. The building, currently deserted and unoccupied, is a property that has, for centuries, been an important part of New York City’s cultural transformation.
“An 1835 reference was made to a small Negro settlement in the Greenwich Village area. Some fifteen years later the majority of the city’s Negroes were living in the southern part of Greenwich Village and the area immediately south of it.”By the time of the U.S. Civil War, so many Black people had settled in what is today Greenwich Village that the area was known as “Little Africa.
On top of increasing his personal wealth with real estate, Day was a Black community activist. He was an abolitionist before the Civil War, campaigned against efforts to repatriate Blacks back to Africa following the conflict, and pushed to eliminate the requirement that city residents needed to own property before they could vote. Census records and city directories show Day rented out his apartments at 50 West 13th Street to like-minded progressive African Americans.
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