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Man sues cemetery for discrimination after refusing husband’s burial
Retired Physician Mark Goldberg sued a Jewish cemetery citing emotional distress for refusing to lay his deceased husband to ...
Cemetery refused to bury gay spouse in family plot, husband claims
Exclusive: Retired physician Mark Goldberg is now seeking a court order to lay his longtime partner to rest in accordance ...
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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 ...
When Grave Markers Are Stolen, He Speaks for the Dead
To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something ...
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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 ...