In 1863, the City of New York purchased the land from the Trustees ... burial space on the border between Brooklyn and Queens. Calvary Cemetery, named after the hill where Christ was crucified ...

You never know what you might find at First Calvary Cemetery in Queens. While wandering through ... Scannell was the first New York City Fire Commissioner, grand sachem of Tammany Hall, and a ...

Interestingly enough, thanks in great part to this cemetery’s massive influx of residents–for lack of a better word–Queens ... know about the first person to be buried in Calvary, Esther ...

A half-naked man was found dead in a Queens cemetery Sunday morning ... his ankles just before 10 a.m. by a mourner visiting Calvary Cemetery, police sources said. The victim’s name was not ...

other than she was the very first person buried in Calvary Cemetery in 1848. Intonations and rumors of a broken heart followed her to the grave, which allude to a love affair gone wrong and conjure ...

Calvary Cemetery in Queens is something of ... Over 150 years after its first burial and still under the operation of the Archdiocese of New York, Calvary has now expanded to four different ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- From St. Patrick's Cathedral, Wednesday's funeral procession for NYPD Det. Wilbert Mora took a detour on its way to Calvary Cemetery in Queens. CBS2's Tony Aiello was in ...