City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City
How Climate Change Could Threaten New York’s Historic Black Cemeteries
“My concerns are that if these storms keep getting worse, ancestral remains might come to the top,” said Shantell Jones, secretary of the Flatbush African Burial Ground (FABG) Coalition, which has spearheaded efforts to track down remains that were removed from the site due to development.
“I don’t know what the city would do if that happened,” said Jones. “We’re already on a mission to recover the remains that were already taken from here, and now we have this other worry of more resurfacing and potentially getting destroyed or washed away.”
