Place fileBrooklyn, New York
Most Holy Trinity Cemetery (Bushwick)
Founded for a German Catholic congregation in the 19th century, this compact Bushwick cemetery is striking for its old metal markers and wooden crosses. It…
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Place fileBrooklyn, New York
Greenway Botanical Garden at the Naval Cemetery
This quiet Brooklyn Navy Yard memorial landscape occupies the former Naval Hospital Cemetery. A raised boardwalk crosses native meadow planting without disturbing ground where some…
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Place fileNew York
Trinity Church Cemetery & Mausoleum (Hamilton Heights)
The Uptown Trinity burial ground is a Gothic-feeling historic cemetery on the former estate of John James Audubon, with elaborate monuments and a mausoleum. It…
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Place fileBayside, New York
Fort Totten Water Battery
The unfinished 19th-century water battery gives Fort Totten Park its brooding stonework, arches and military-history atmosphere. The surrounding Queens park is publicly accessible and NYC…
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Place fileStony Point, New York
Old Letchworth Village Cemetery
A signed short path off Call Hollow Road leads to the old burial ground for people who lived at Letchworth Village. Rows of numbered markers…
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Place fileBuffalo, New York
Blue Sky Mausoleum
Frank Lloyd Wright designed this open-air burial monument for Darwin D. Martin; Forest Lawn finally built it in 2004. Its stone steps and low horizon…
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Blocher Memorial
Inside a glass-fronted stone memorial at Buffalo’s Forest Lawn, sculpted figures portray the Blocher family in a dramatic Victorian tableau. It is a remarkable work…
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Place fileTomkins Cove, New York
Doodletown Historic Trail
The forest has reclaimed this former Hudson Highlands hamlet, but the public Doodletown trail in Bear Mountain State Park still passes old steps, foundations and…
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Place fileBeacon, New York
Mount Beacon Incline Railway Powerhouse Ruins
A steep public hike in Mount Beacon Park traces the path of the former incline railway to the abandoned powerhouse near the summit. The funicular…
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Place fileCold Spring, New York
Cornish Estate Ruins
The stone and brick remains of the Cornish family estate sit in the woods of Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve. A marked blue Cornish Trail…
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Place fileYonkers, New York
Untermyer Gardens
This grand public garden in Yonkers blends monumental architecture, sphinxes and surviving estate remnants. Its neglected years inspired dark local stories, but claims of occult…
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Place fileBay Shore, New York
Fire Island Lighthouse
The striped 1858 lighthouse and keeper’s quarters are a public maritime-history destination associated with local tales of keepers and shipwreck ghosts. Those stories are folklore,…
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