#74. NOTICING THE BONES 
Ah, a rare sighting. I spy someone who stops and reads the large gray paving stone that tells a story. She’s on a path along the Park’s south side.
Near the stone, buried five feet below a low mound covered with plants, is a wooden box. Inside are the bones of New Yorkers. The bones came from burial vaults of churches, long gone, that were on the east side of the Park: the Scotch Presbyterian Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and Asbury African Church.
The churches were torn down; the vaults remained.
Construction projects between 2008 and 2017 unearthed the bones. The City reinterred them on this site in 2021.
Read the paved stone if you visit. Think of the dead New Yorkers.
If it creeps you out, just don’t walk on the south side of the Park.
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