African Burial Ground National Monument

African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Type: Park
Description: national monument in New York City
Also known as: “AFBG”, “African Burial Ground Memorial”, “African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark”, and “New York African Burial Ground”

Places of Interest

Highlights include New York City Hall and Woolworth Building.

New York City Hall

Town hall

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New York City Hall is the seat of New York City government, located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street.

Woolworth Building

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The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.

Freedom Tower

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One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Downtown Manhattan and TriBeCa.

Downtown Manhattan

Quarter

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Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan, is the southernmost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The area is the historical birthplace of New York City and in the 17th and 18th centuries composed the entirety of the city.

TriBeCa

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A former industrial district in Lower Manhattan, TriBeCa, short for "Triangle Below Canal Street", has transformed from artist community to upscale residential district in the 21st century.

Chinatown

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Manhattan's famous Chinatown is a lively neighborhood, full of good values in restaurants and food shopping. Also on sale are cheap knockoffs of designer labels made in China, and all sorts of trinkets and toys.

African Burial Ground National Monument

Categories: cemetery, National Monument of the United States, National Park System unit, and national monument
Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.71455° or 40° 42′ 52″ north

Longitude

-74.00433° or 74° 0′ 16″ west

Elevation

26 feet (8 metres)

Open location code

87G7PX7W+R7

GeoNames ID

5106795

Wikidata ID

Q383996

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“African Burial Ground National Monument” goes by many names.

Arabic: “النصب التذكاري الوطني لمقبرة الأفارقة”
Catalan: “Monument nacional Cementeri Africà”
Cebuano: “African Burial Ground National Monument”
Chinese: “非裔墓地國家名勝”
Dutch: “African Burial Ground National Monument”
Dutch: “Nationaal monument African Burial Ground”
Finnish: “African Burial Ground”
French: “African Burial Ground National Monument”
German: “African Burial Ground National Monument”
German: “African Burial Ground”
German: “African Burial”
German: “African Burying Ground”
German: “Negro Burying Place and Negros Burying Ground”
Hebrew: “אתר הקבורה האפריקני”
Japanese: “アフリカ人墓地ナショナル・モニュメント”
Polish: “African Burial Ground National Monument”
Spanish: “Monumento nacional Cementerio Africano”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as HHS Region 2 and Civic Center.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ted Weiss Federal Building and 26 Federal Plaza.

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