Andrew Williams owned three blocks of land with a home valued at $4,000 ($113,000 in today’s money) between 85th and 86th streets Seventh and Eighth Avenues. An African American man, he lived in what would be the Upper West Side of Manhattan for more than 30 years but now – in 1855 – he was… Read More »

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