Hundreds of bone fragments to be reburied under Washington Square Park

Jul 11, 2019 |

Via Wikimedia While upgrading water mains under Washington Square Park in 2015, city workers unearthed two 19th-century burial vaults containing the skeletal remains of at least a dozen people. As part of Landmarks Preservation Commission protocol, intact burials were left untouched, but the city had removed several hundred bone fragments. Four years later, plans to rebury the remains […more]

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