Friends of the Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue will be having a clean-up day on Saturday, April 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Work will include picking up leaves, litter and tree limbs, and removing invasive plants as part of the group’s Union Cemetery Restoration
Green-Wood cemetery will be offering a cemetery trolley tour on Saturday, February 10 at 10 a.m. focused on Black Brooklynites. This tour, led by Green-Wood’s Education and Public Programs Coordinator, will examine the life and accomplishments of many prominent Black Brooklynites who were pioneers in
A cemetery cleanup will be jointly sponsored by the Urban Park Rangers and Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries Staten Island on Sunday, Feb. 4 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to preserve the Sleight Family Graveyard. Learn more about the Sleight Family Graveyard and its significance
According to the Nanuet Patch website, new legislation that was recently passed in New York State will allow the town of Clarkstown (Rockland County) to access state funding for the restoration and repair of three local abandoned cemeteries including Nanuet Rural Cemetery, Nyack Rural Cemetery
According to the New York Law School website Citylandnyc.org, earlier in December, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissioner voted to designate the Joseph Rodman Drake Park and Enslaved People’s Burial Ground in the Bronx as a landmark. Drake Park was opened in 1910, and
