I can’t believe it! At the circle around the church is the mausoleum where my grandparents and great grandparents are buried. Silent movie actress Texas Guinan is buried one mausoleum away from ours. I remember watching all the old men putting flowers on the door of her mausoleum when we went there on the weekends. As I got older I noticed fewer old men visiting her and then I never saw anyone there. Thank you so much for sharing this. It brought back so many memories of my loved ones there.
My Grandmother, Aunt and Cousin are buried there. I live in MN. now and have not been back to NY for many years so it was nice to see this cemetery. We visited often when we lived in NY. Beautiful place to us.
In the Godfather movie, Don Corleone is buried at Calvary. At the part of the cemetery almost under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, is the DeLuise family plot, where actor Dom DeLuise is buried.
Despite being the most visually prominent cemetery in New York, Calvary receives a much smaller number of visitors than Greenwood or Woodlawn. That's a shame because I have explored Calvary extensively over the years and it is a fascinating example of an urban cemetery.
Thank you for the Calvary Woodside cemetery video. My great and great great grandparents, aunts, cousins, are in sec 4, range 3, plat II, Graves 11. They were buried from May 1860 through January 1866, containing McFaddens and Fagans. I've always wanted to visit, but will likely not ever be able to do so due to my age. Again, thank you so very much for the tour. My granddad who purchased these graves was with tge Commodore Matthew Perry Expedition to Japan in 1854-55, returning to NYC and living where Katzs Deli was on Ludlow and Houston, also living at the foot if east 17 th street, and moved to Illinois in 1874, thence his family moved to Oregon in 1913.
BTW, another nearby cemetery in Queens that is well worthy of a video is Mount Zion Cemetery. Established in 1893, Mount Zion is situated close to the L.I.E in Maspeth and approximately 210,000 people to date have been interred there on a mere 78 acres of land. This why it is overcrowded with tightly spaced monuments, but among them are some lesser known individuals who played big roles in New York's history.
Since you mentioned this cemetery and how crowded it is .How it is possible to fit those stones so close together. ? Are the head stones on top of the deceased or are the graves dug vertically? I past it all the time and tried to go in this past Saturday but it is closed on the Sabbath I assume.
@@tombanes Hello. As far as I know, the graves at Mount Zion have never been dug vertically. The main reason for the cemetery being so overcrowded is it strictly adheres to the Jewish rule of one body to one grave, and does not offer double plots in which interments are "stacked" or "layered" above each other in a single burial space. There are many old burial society plots at Mount Zion, but burials within were always adjacent and horizontal. The family mausoleums that are in Mount Zion presumably got around the 'one body to one grave' rule because, even though they are built to accommodate multiple entombments, mausoleums do so by containing individual crypts for singular occupants, and so technically are not shared graves. This situation is not unique to Mount Zion Cemetery; there are lots of Jewish cemeteries in Brooklyn and Queens that have reached capacity due to being densely occupied, with one notable example being Washington Cemetery in Midwood. Like Mount Zion, Washington Cemetery has always adhered to the 'one body to one grave' rule and, consequently, is full and can now only offer burials if a plot was purchased long in advance. Also like Mount Zion, graves at Washington Cemetery are now generally dug by hand (no backhoes) and have a standardized width (no plus-sized caskets) because there's simply no alternative. Even more dire is the fact Washington Cemetery has come close to bankruptcy as a direct result of it's overcrowding, because it's very hard for the cemetery to generate enough revenue to sustain itself if there's practically no new graves to sell. According to what I've read, Mount Zion largely sustains itself from gardening fees and bursaries left behind for the upkeep of individual graves, so although it may be crowded, the cemetery hasn't yet fallen into a general state of disrepair. I hope one day a video is made about it, but in the meantime, I encourage you to visit Mount Zion Cemetery yourself.
Worked in Queens for several weeks back in 2003 and my hotel was across the street from this cemetery. I visited it several times and always went into the chapel. There is so much history in this cemetery. There are many priests and nuns buried near the chapel, and they were buried very close together with wooden grave stones. I didn't get to see as much of the place as I wanted to because it covers so much ground. I do know that actor Dom DeLuise is buried there along with several other famous people, including actress Nita Naldi (who was in a movie with Rudolph Valentino), and Patsy Kelly. The funeral scene in The Godfather was also filmed there.
Was it the City View Inn you worked at? The reviews on Tripadvisor are very negative (the bulletproof glass encasing the reception desk was mentioned again and again) but I've stayed there twice and found nothing to complain about. Maybe this is going too far, but I would say the City View Inn is one of New York's hidden gems. I love exploring Calvary Cemetery and the hotel was the best situated to stay at.
The Cavalry is an inner-city Cemetery divided into four sections by major highways. You cannot easily walk from one section to the next. Maps are available for each section on calvary's homepage. The cemetery office is extremely understaffed and busy. Recommend phoning before visiting to find the cemetery location you want. You must have a date of death for a burial record to be located. Calvary's homepage has much useful information, including costs.
Many of my family and ancestors are interred in Calvary. Some others are buried in Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. Try getting a list of interments from Calvary; it will cost you an arm and a leg. I was able to get information from Evergreens for free.
I don’t have fear of anything, the thing someone should probably most fear is dEath. I conquered that fear however no one should be scared of death since we are all gonna die.
PS2 Calvary is a Roman Catholic Cemetery owned by the Archdiocese of New York. Of course you will see Irish, Italian, polish surnames! Please stop guessing at nationalities.
And Kościuszko is NOT ka-shoos-ko ! Kah-zee-uh-sko Checking pronunciations should be part of video background research. It is too irritating to watch with all those errors !!
@@ljdw749 His pronunciation was actually pretty close. My family was friendly with a Polish family when I was growing up and they pronounced it as: “Ka-shush-ko”.
Charming attempt, but please stop inventing erroneous facts and conclusions. They mislead your audience. Since you are not on camera full time, you might use some notecards and stop suppositioning. Reach out to Jim Garrity, he's the expert on Calvary Cemetery.
and this guy needs to be educated: "The Grass isn't mowed THAT WELL.. This cemetery is cared for impeccably. This Guy seems like a Rank Amateur....He CaNNOT EVEN PRONOUNCE THE cEMETERY' NAME CORRECTLY.
