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New York City’s Dead: A Guide To Cemeteries In The Five Boroughs
With so many tourist attractions, New York Cemetery are rarely on most visitors’ top ten lists, but the sheer size of many NYC graveyards, not to mention their famous residents and historic ...
Church plans expansion for 'at capacity' graveyard
Plans to expand a church's graveyard which is said to be almost full are to be considered by councillors. If given the go-ahead, a patch of land measuring 66ft (20m) by 246ft (75m) would be added to ...
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Over 1 million unclaimed bodies are buried on a little-known island in New York City - here's the story behind the massive graveyard
After the Civil War, those considered "strangers" in New York City included African Americans, immigrants, and those who had died in the city's slums. Today the cemetery is home to bodies that ...
A soldier lost in Hutchinson
Somewhere in Oakland Cemetery is the grave of Nathan Weeks, a New York native who was tasked to defend Minnesotans during the ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: NYC’s sacred — and segregated — Black burial sites
Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated ...
New high-tech walking tour shows how York's Black history was paved over for parking lots
The Paved Over Prominence Project led by Samantha Dorm tells the story of York's now gone Black historic sites, businesses ...