New York cemeteries

On a bright, sunny September day, I walked through Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York City, founded in 1893. From the highest point of its 78 acres, I was fascinated by the sheer number of monuments stretching in every direction. There are more than 210,000 burials here, which works out to roughly 2,700 […]

On a recent visit to Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, about 25 miles north of New York City, I went looking for its most popular spot, Section 25. Section 25 is likely visited more than any other part of the cemetery, thanks to the prominent names buried in and around it. Baseball […]