• African Burial Ground National Memorial

    African Burial Ground

    National Monument New York

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Laws & Policies

Superintendent's Compendium

The Superintendent's Compendium covers Designations, Closures, Permit Requirements and other Restrictions.

Downloadable copy of the Compendium.

Firearms in National Parks
Visitors may possess firearms within a national park unit provided they comply with federal, state, and local laws.

The role of the responsible gun owner is to know and obey the federal, state, and local laws appropriate to the park they are visiting.

Please remember that federal law prohibits firearms in certain park facilities and buildings. These places are marked with signs at public entrances.

For more information
Please visit:
www.nps.gov/nero/firearms/

Permit Requirements

Special Park Use Permit 10-930

Commercial Filming and Still Photography Short Form 10-931

Commercial Filming and Still Photography Long Form 10-932

 

Did You Know?

The Sankofa has a strong association with the African Burial Ground

New York's African Burial Ground is the nation's earliest known African and African American cemetery. An estimated 15,000 men, women and children were buried here between the late 1600s and the mid 1790s. More...