Parking lot revealed to have been built over the graves of 135 children

[Fenris]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/07/nyregion/07cemetery.html

In a pocket of Yonkers off the New York State Thruway, weeds and debris had overrun an old Orthodox Jewish cemetery, where memory had also abandoned most of the 250 souls buried there.

So 15 years ago, developers planning a huge commercial complex easily acquired the half-acre cemetery in exchange for moving the remains to Jerusalem. Now, the state attorney general's office says, it turns out that no one bothered to account for about 135 children buried at the cemetery.

Where they were once laid to rest stands a two-story parking garage for Costco and Home Depot.

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The funeral official responsible for the transfer, Michael McFadden of Plaza Memorial Chapel of Manhattan, declared to the court in 1989 that "all known human remains" had been removed. But Morris Builders made no mention of the failure to find the remains of the many children listed in the cemetery, the attorney general's office said.

:mad:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Well, someone's taking the express train to Hell.

[Fenris]

2. Did they learn nothing from "Poltergeist"?

[GOPisEvil]

3. More should have been done to locate those bodies.

It seems like only a minimal effort at locating them was done.

[DS1]

4. hmmm, pushing up parking meters. so romantic

:shrug:

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. I say plow up ALL the cemeteries.

Plenty of prime real estate there.