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.
The New York City of the years following the Civil War was a time of great population growth, as immigrants from around the globe flocked here for new opportunities. In…
Quaker Hill, along Center Drive near the park entrance at Prospect Park Southwest and 16th Street contains a cemetery that was established by the Society of Friends before Prospect Park…
Forgotten NY’s 100th tour, October 25, 2012 (the first was June 1, 1999) met at Green-Wood Cemetery, a frequent tour subject. This time we explored the eastern end of the…
Here’s one of the stranger stories concerning one of the major NYC cemeteries, Evergreens Cemetery, which is about evenly divided between Brooklyn and Queens, the westernmost burial city in the…
Here’s a huge bronze trumpeting angel in Bushwick’s Evergreens Cemetery at the memorial of Bernhard Hammer (1836-1905) and other family members. The Latin inscription on the crest, Malleum incude malim,…
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…