February 2011
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Harlem's Buried Treasure
The depot, where the Willis Avenue Bridge meets First Avenue, marks the end point of Dutch Gov. Peter Stuyvesant’s “road to New Harlem,” a 10-mile trail from lower Manhattan constructed in 1658 by enslaved African workers. Beneath the depot’s block-long concrete floor, according to historians and archaeologists, is where those slaves are still buried.
In lower Manhattan, a colonial village...
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