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In the cemetery’s first fifty years, almost 650,000 people were buried at Calvary. 200,000 more were buried between 1898 and 1907, due to the influenza pandemic that struck New York. So many people ...
Three million people have been buried in the Calvary Cemetery since its establishment in 1848. It contains the largest number of burials of any U.S. cemetery.
One of the largest cemeteries in NYC, Queens' Calvary Cemetery boasts over 3 million burials, a number greater than the living population of the borough. Explore this city of the dead with us as ...
A mourner paying his respects to a loved one at a Queens cemetery this morning got a grisly surprise when he discovered a half-naked dead man lying nearby, police sources said. Police received a 91… ...
I hope you will enjoy a repost of one of my first Queenswalks. Next week will be brand new. A trip from Brooklyn to Queens across that semi-movable parking lot known as the Brooklyn Queens Expressway ...