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.
OLD West Farms Soldiers Cemetery, on Bryant Avenue and East 180th Street, is a designated Bronx landmark and has occupied this space since 1815. There are just 40 soldiers buried here…
SON Rise Charismatic Interfaith Church can be found on Staten Island’s main north-south cross-island local street, Richmond Avenue, which roars from Port Richmond all the way to Raritan Bay, opposite…
THE 2nd Shearith Israel Cemetery on West 11th Street near 6th Avenue (described on this FNY page) isn’t the only “deactivated” cemetery on 11th Street. I recently found out about…
TIME grows short before bedtime, so I’ll repeat an item from my twilight Calvary Cemetery-Blissville walk in November 2022. Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle reports that the Catholic diocese…
HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home all week and my…
BEFORE revisiting Green-Wood Cemetery, where I haven’t been since the pandemic, I’m going over some highlights presented from past tours. It’s rather serendipitous that the founder of a major airline…
(No, he’s not forgotten, don’t quibble) EVEN the casual classical music fan knows the name Leonard Bernstein, especially if you’re over fifty. In the swinging Sixties, his “Young People’s Concerts”…
IT’S been way too long since I have been in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn: September 2020 in fact. I came to know it very well in the 2010s, when I…
AL SMITHÂ (1873-1944), is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, Queens. He was Governor of New York State for four two-year terms (elected in 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1926) and the…
ONE of Queens’ best-kept secrets can be accessed via a driveway at 35th Avenue at 71st Street between an animal hospital and a Chinese restaurant. Walk right in past a…
THE story of Van Cortlandt Park begins in 1699, when future NYC mayor Jacobus Van Cortlandt bought a large tract of the Frederick Philipse holdings in the northern Bronx. The…
JUST as the First Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbush and Church Avenues contains some of the best-preserved tombstones from the colonial era pre-Revolution, so does the Dutch Reformed Church in…