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Parking Lot Over Burial Ground | New York City News
A parking lot in Elmhurst, Queens, built atop a 19th-century cemetery holding around 290 unmarked graves, is caught in a legal and ethical storm. After hitting an iron coffin containing a freed slave’s remains in 2011, the property’s owner, 90 Queens LLC, struck a deal with the church for a memorial—but more remains were disturbed. Last year, they paved over the site and turned it into a parking lot, even for NYPD impound, leading to violations and a court-ordered shutdown by November 30. Now, with foreclosure looming and a state law protecting unknown burial sites, any sale or development…
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