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The Newsboy Governor, Now Buried in Calvary Cemetery
You never know what you might find at First Calvary Cemetery in Queens. Here lies Tammany, gazing eternally upon their work. The city. That great city. The greatest and last of their projects is...
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The Time I Realized I Needed Glasses in Calvary Cemetery
As one proceeds up the glacier-carved hillocks that define northwestern Queens – climbing the shallow slope of Laurel Hill and leaving the eluvial plains of the East River shoreline, while approaching...
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First, Calvary
Woe to that New Yorker who achieves our common societal goal, which is being always at the head of a long queue – the first in line. There isn’t much I can tell you about Esther Ennis, an Irish...
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Queenswalk: Calvary Cemetery
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...
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Doherty Monument, First Calvary Cemetery
The Doherty monument in First Calvary is one beautiful bit of carving, in my opinion. Art school faculty, turtlenecked and smoking french cigarettes, would probably describe the thing as “Sophia,...
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