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.
(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 SMITH (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…
On a recent Saturday 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…
On a sunny late July 2022 Sunday, I decided to check out Trinity Churchyard and Broadway. I really had not spent any length of time there in a decade and…
I recently walked around lower Manhattan and was glad to see Trinity Cemetery fully open again after years of partial closures during the pandemic. However, I was a bit disappointed…
What follows is an expansion of a piece that recently appeared in SpliceToday. I added more information and photos taken during a recent walk in Astoria’s northern end. After fur…
Recently, I heard about an opportunity to visit a place I had been past a number of times, but never entered — the cemetery of the Village of New Utrecht…
I have mentioned the Moore-Jackson Cemetery before — it’s located in Deep Woodside, on 54th Street between 31st and 32nd Avenues. When the trees are leaved out it appears to…