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.

A trip from Brooklyn to Queens across that semi-movable parking lot known as the Brooklyn Queens Expressway will always take you over a vast expanse of the land of the dead, ... This is Calvary ...

All 186 Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn were shuttered at noon Friday by the coronavirus crisis, with a moratorium declared on funerals, weddings and baptisms for the faithful. The dio… ...

In terms of interments, Calvary Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States. With three million, the dead outnumber the 2.2 million living in Queens. But Calvary is more about sheer expanse.

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 ...