Family calls for Newark to clean up City Cemetery

Name: Family calls for Newark to clean up City Cemetery
Uploaded: 2025-05-06T23:25:00-0400
Duration: 5 min 25 s
Description: Newark's City Cemetery is the final resting place for 18,000 people – including the poor, unknown or unclaimed – but it looks like an abandoned lot. A family member says the cemetery's been forgotten, and it's not the first time. She asked CBS News investigator Mahsa Saeidi to track down who's in charge to help honor the dead.

Newark's City Cemetery is the final resting place for 18,000 people – including the poor, unknown or unclaimed – but it looks like an abandoned lot. A family member says the cemetery's been forgotten, and it's not the first time. She asked CBS News investigator Mahsa Saeidi to track down who's in charge to help honor the dead.