cemeteries

They're all waiting for you, whether you want to admit it or not. Cemeteries...hundreds of square miles of them in the five boroughs alone, and there's a spot with your name on it in one of them. Or will be. But before you make your longest visit, take a look at some of the smallest, oldest and most unusual cemeteries NYC has to offer. Before it's too late for you to really enjoy them.

FLUSHING'S LOST CEMETERY The restoration of Martins Field.

FLUSHING CEMETERY including an examination of mausoleum stained glass.

THE FACES OF MT. ZION Likenesses of the deceased grace the tombstonbes at the Queens cemetery.

FOREVER BRONXITES We have overlooked the Bronx in our ancient cemetery survey, until now.

THE DEAD POOL Staten Island's Rossville...its abandoned Blazing Star Cemetery and a ship graveyard.

WHO'S BURIED AT GRANT'S TOMB? It's not who you think..

HAPPY DEATHDAY, MR. LAWRENCE. Queens is rife with forgotten cemeteries..

ICHABOD SLEEPS HERE. As do many more in forgotten Staten Island cemeteries.

PROSPECT CEMETERY. Abandoned history in Jamaica.

SYLVAN CEMETERY. Staten Island cemetery -come-garbage dump.

HIDDEN CEMETERIES. A few of the more unusual cemeteries scattered throughout the five boroughs.

STATEN ISLAND CEMETERIES. They provide oases of green in the rapidly developing western and southern sections of the borough.

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