Queens New York

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 Subway Ride and Walk in Queens – Remembering Tony Bennett On my subway ride and walk through Queens, New York, I arrived—flower in hand—at a cemetery surrounded by freeways known as Calvary Catholic Cemetery, where I found the modest family grave of the great singer, painter, and entertainer, Tony Bennett. Anthony Dominick Benedetto […]