YONKERS: The Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site in Yonkers will become a center for “interpreting and educating” visitors about almost 400 years of the Black experience in New York.

Exhibits will concentrate on the Underground Railroad, emancipation, the Great Migration, when Blacks in the last century fled the South for what they hoped would be better lives in northern states, and civil rights battles.

In addition, the Office of Historic Preservation will expand its capacity to inform programming and exhibits that tell the untold stories of Indian nations and indigenous cultures residing in New York,” Andrew Cuomo said.