Developers seek to transform closed East Moriches airport into Muslim cemetery
It would be the first state-sanctioned Muslim cemetery on Long Island and the second in New York, and it would hold up to ...
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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 ...
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Remains of World War II Soldier, Staten Island, New York, Native, to be Buried in Arlington National Cemetery
Lt. Francis Callahan The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Francis E. Callahan, a Soldier killed during World War II ...
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 ...
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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 ...