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Officials push for historic burial site for freed slaves to become a memorial

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ELMHURST, Queens (PIX11) -- Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is calling on the city to save what is believed to be the final resting place of hundreds of Black New Yorkers, many of them formerly enslaved. The burial site, on 90th Street, near Corona Avenue, was once a cemetery, but is not covered by a [...]

First report: From Parking Lot to Memorial? Queens Borough Prez Wants City to Buy Paved-Over Black Cemetery — thecity.nyc, 12d