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.
Making it 10 out of 11 tours in 2014 with sunny weather (albeit postponed from November 1 because of rain) November 8th’s Evergreens Cemetery was conducted in sunny, 50-degree weather.…
BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Willett family plot is the only remaining reminder of Spring Hill, a vast estate that became a cemetery in 1893. The plot is…
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I got off the #1 uptown at 225th Street and wasn’t sure where I was going, which some say has been my problem all these years.…
Trinity Church Cemetery, at Broadway and Wall Street, is one of Manhattan’s oldest cemeteries. (The oldest may be the First Shearith Jewish Cemetery on St. James Place just south of…
Aimlessly meandering through the East Village during the spring (2014) wondering what was going to happen next, I noticed that I was on lower 2nd Avenue near East Houston Street,…
While Green-Wood and perhaps Evergreens get all the Brooklyn cemetery publicity, there’s another one smack in the center of the borough that’s fairly unnoticed, except if you are looking out…
Herman Armour (1837-1901) was the co-founder of the Armour Meatpaking Co. with his brother Philip in 1867, which still bears the Armour name. Armour introduced canned meat, brought the assembly…
Alexander Archipenko (born May 30, 1887, Kiev, Ukraine [then Russian Empire]—died February 25, 1964, New York, New York, U.S.), Ukrainian-American artist best known for his original, Cubist-inspired sculptural style. After studying in Kiev, in 1908 Archipenko briefly attended the…
Here’s the unusual castellate Herbert Brenon mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, which, unusually, features a clock which no longer tells the time, which Brenon hasn’t needed to  know…
FNY has been a friend of Prospect Cemetery and its caretaker Cate Ludlam since the Dawn of Forgottening in 1998. This is a photo from FNY’s April 2004 Prospect Cemetery/King…
I haven’t spent a lot of time in the St. Paul’s Chapel churchyard, between Broadway and Church, Vesey and Fulton Streets, in back of the oldest remaining building church in Manhattan…
I think humanity is alone in the universe, which for me doesn’t cause anomie, just disappointment. At age 55 I already feel cheated that half of things are over with,…