By Florence Mafomemeh                           

An entrance to New York City’s Central Park is now called “The Gate of the Exonerated” named in honor of the Central Park Five, the five men whose convictions in the notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were all thrown out more than a decade later.

New York City officials voted to honor the Central Park Five by naming the 110th Street entrance of Central Park the Gate of the Exonerated. 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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