Harlem African Burial Ground

The Harlem African Burial Ground at 126th Street and 2nd Ave is at MTA’s decommissioned Bus Depot, to be developed into a memorial and mixed-use project. It was a segregated cemetery created in 1668 for the burial of enslaved and freed Africans in the Dutch colony of ‘Nieuw Haarlem’. The burial ground was maintained until 1858 by the Elmendorf Reformed Church, the successor of the Low Dutch Reformed Church of Harlem, which founded the cemetery. ‘Nieuw Haarlem’ was founded in East Harlem at 121st Street in 1658 by Peter Stuyvesant, the seventh and final Director-General of New Netherland, before the English took control of the colony in 1664 and named it New York. After 1858, the burial ground was forgotten.

Stones, brick, glass grit, screws, resin, 3.5-4.5” / 7-11cm, 2025
Small spray bottle €150, Spray bottle €200 each, Tank €250
Set €700