KINGSTON, N.Y. – Construction has begun to turn a vacant Midtown parcel where the former U.S. Post Office was located into a park, according to Mayor Steve Noble. Kingston is implementing Phase 1 of a landscape plan for the two greenspaces, newly named Post Office Park, at Broadway, Grand and Prince streets, the mayor’s office […]
For all those who were lost/For all those who were stolen/For all those who were left behind/For all those who were not forgotten. In a sacred outdoor space near City Hall in Lower Manhattan, those four sentences are etched onto a 24-foot-tall green granite monument alongside a heart-shaped Sankofa, a Ghanian symbol that means “learn from the past to prepare for the future.”
Facing years of proposed development on the site, a group of community activists, the Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition, has been fighting every step
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