“Gate of the Exonerated” will honor the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger and spent years in prison.
Sharonne Salaam, mother of Yusef Salaam who was one of five men exonerated after being wrongfully convicted as teenagers for the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park, stands at the park's northeast gateway which will be named"Gate of the Exonerated" to honor the five men.NEW YORK — New York City is naming a gate in Central Park in honor of the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger and spent years in prison before being exonerated.
“This gate of the exonerated will be ... the first of its kind within the United States and possibly in the world that speaks to the idea of exoneration of people,” she testified during the City Hall hearing. Mayor Eric Adams called the project’s approval Monday “a moment of truth and reconciliation for New York City” and thanked Harlem community leaders for their advocacy.
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