24 September 2026

I’d been told that one of the best views of the Manhattan skyline is from the highest point of New Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens, near the Brooklyn border. Mount Carmel is a Jewish cemetery that opened in 1906, with more than 85,000 burials across about 100 acres. When I arrived, I walked to what […]

On my visit to St. John Roman Catholic Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens, New York City, I visited the Cloister mausoleum and found the crypt of the “World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man,” Angelo Siciliano, better known as Charles Atlas. Angelo was born in Acri, Calabria, Italy, and emigrated to the United States with his mother […]

I arrived at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York, in Westchester County, about 40 km north of Yankee Stadium, and visited Section 25 with glove and ball in hand to  visit the scrappy Yankees infielder and hugely successful manager: Alfred Manuel Martin, better known as Billy Martin. Billy Martin was of Italian and […]