New York City snow removal trucks dumped tons of snow from the area’s recent blizzard into the city’s largest Jewish cemetery, toppling 21 headstones.
An iron fence around Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery also was damaged when crews from the Sanitation Department dumped the snow into the cemetery over New Year’s weekend, the New York Post reported.
The damage was discovered Jan. 1.
The cemetery reportedly will file a claim with the city. The blizzard that hit the New York metropolitan area Dec. 26 and 27 dropped 2 feet or more of snow in some spots. — jta