Forgotten New York explores famous New York City cemeteries, giving you a tour of the historic resting places of so many New Yorkers. Check out the celebrity tombstones, hidden burial sites, mausoleums and places like Calvary and Greenwood Cemetery.
HERE’S a photo of the webmaster and my good friend, Doctor of Theology and author Dawn Eden Goldstein, in a 2007 outing in front of James Leeson’s gravestone in Trinity…
In many ways the stately brick edifice, St. George Episcopal Church, is the centerpiece of Astoria Village. There has been a St. George Episcopal parish in Astoria since 1825 when its…
In late August 2024 I wandered around Green-Wood Cemetery for the first time in a few years; I have become reluctant to walk in areas without an opportunity to sit,…
THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…
In 2007, on Forgotten New York’s first Douglaston-Little Neck tour, the late great Nigey Lennon, author-musician (The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain In California, Reinventing the Wheel) gives me a breather…
TUCKED away in Bayside along Long Island Rail Road tracks at 42nd Avenue between 215th Place and 216th Street is a private cemetery originally belonging to the prominent Queens County…
DEWITT Clinton (1769-1828) was a founding father who served as NY State Assemblyman, NYS Senator, NYS Governor, US Senator and NYC Mayor during an illustrious career capped by his indefatigable…
By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent ALONG the Jackie Robinson Parkway where the Queens-Brooklyn border runs atop the glacial terminal moraine are a set of cemeteries straddling that line, each with…
CEMETERIES have been popular ForgottenTour locales over the years; the inhabitants tend to be quiet, so my narration goes uninterrupted. FNY has visited the cemeteries of central Queens, both downtown…
As I was hanging around Trinity Cemetery in summer 2022, I happened upon the gravestone of Sidney Breese. The ornate inscription on the stone reads: Sidney Breese June 9, 1767Made…
TWO vast cemeteries are associated with St. Raymond’s Church in Westchester Square and are operated by the Catholic Diocese of New York. Old St. Raymond’s, located roughly between Waterbury Avenue, Bruckner Expressway,…
I recently went on a jaunt in Green-Wood Cemetery for the first time in a few years, and I’ll likely do a full page eventually; I plan another visit in…