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.
ERIK Weisz (1874-1926) gained fame for his daring escapes from handcuffs, chains, straitjackets, locked water-filled tanks (such as the Chinese Water Torture Cell), and being buried alive, and became a…
More than 20 years ago, Newtown Historical Society president and FNY correspondent Christina Wilkinson and I visited the General Slocum victims monument in Lutheran/All Faiths Cemetery. I haven’t been back…
In November 2022, I traveled around Blissville in western Queens with my friend Mitch Waxman, who I call the King of Newtown Creek. He is a historian and preservationist who has…
Can it be over 20 years since I traveled the length of the Long Island Motor Parkway in Glen Oaks? When I bicycled in Queens I used it all the…
ASK any person on the street in Queens where they think Bayside Cemetery is, and the inevitable answer would be … Bayside. Not the case. Bayside Cemetery is actually one…
Continued from Part One I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing…
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…