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New York City’s Dead: A Guide To Cemeteries In The Five Boroughs
In a city as teeming with life as New York, it should come as no surprise that there is a similarly populous world six feet under the five boroughs. With so many tourist attractions, New York ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: NYC’s sacred — and segregated — Black burial sites
Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated ...
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As the Living Fled, a Race to Save the Dead at an Altadena Cemetery
Image The fire burned parts of the cemetery’s work yard as it approached a large gas line that powers its crematory.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Then there was the handwritten book ...