“Gate of the Exonerated” Unveiled at Central Park for the “Central Park Five”

December 19 2022 MANHATTAN, New York – On Monday at 11am the commemoration for the wrongfully incarcerated took place and a Central Park entrance was named “Gate of the Exonerated” in honor of a group of Black and Hispanic teens known previously as the “Central Park Five”

The group of teens were wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a female jogger in central park more than 30 years ago.



The gate will be unveiled on December 19th. and located on the north end of Central Park at 110th Street, between Fifth Ave and Malcolm X Blvd.