Minetta Brook – Georgia Silvera Seamans

Minetta Creatures, an eco-art collaborative to celebrate the historic ecologies of the Minetta Brook watershed

Minetta Creatures has a funding page on IOBY and received matching funds from ArtPlace America. Last year, I spoke with ArtPlace about the project. The following is an excerpt from the conversation. Why is it important to make this history visible? When I moved to the neighborhood more than a decade ago, I wasn’t aware […]

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Lenape, African Freedmen, and Minetta Brook in Washington Square Park

3D GIS of Washington Square Park: Showing Historic association between the Park, one of Bolton’s major Native American roads crossing at Minetta Brook, and east of the indigenous landing and transhipment settlement of Sapohanikan, and the site of two of Manhattan’s earliest black farmsteads outside the walls of mid-17th Century Dutch New Amsterdam (Grossman © […]