Queens woman accused of stealing thousands of deeds to Bukharian Jewish cemetery plots. amNY, Dec 7, 2022
The final journey home: John J. Heffernan is laid to rest after 8 decades. NorthJersey.com, Nov 19, 2022
She died in a Manhattan penthouse but was buried on an island for the poor. Washington Post, Jul 2, 2022
‘The Wanderers’ go behind the scenes, and inside the cemetery gates, of 365-year-old Staten Island church. Staten Island Advance, May 6, 2022
Historic cemetery in Astoria in good hands for six decades. NY1, May 2, 2022
Historic Woodside site revamped into community garden. Astoria Post, Jan 14, 2022 [Moore-Jackson Cemetery]
Queens memorial honors African and Native American burial ground. NY1, Nov 9, 2021
Adams opposes housing plan for Flatbush African burial ground. Amsterdam News, Oct 21, 2021
LEONARD GREENE: Affordable housing complex? Not in my backyard, not when the backyard is an African burial ground. Daily News, Oct 11, 2021
‘Layers’ art installation at the Brooklyn Navy yard invites visitors to contemplate the history beneath their feet. Untapped New York, Oct 7, 2021
Junkyard dogs are haunting Queens cemetery. New York Post, Oct 9, 2021.
Cemetery for enslaved Africans lies underneath Staten Island parking Lots. NBC New York, Oct 8, 2021
St. Michael’s cemetery honors terror and Covid-19 victims on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. QNS, Sep 13, 2021
The powerful Jewish ritual that connects me to my ancestors. Jewish News, Aug 31, 2021
A soul on a mission. Jewish Press, August 12, 2021
‘One of the wonders of New York’ is a little-seen cemetery in the Bronx. Bloomberg, Jul 22, 2021
Queens residents purchase headstone for formerly enslaved woman. NY1, Jun 18, 2021
Families complain Evergreens Cemetery is being misused. CBS New York, Apr 17, 2021
Calvary is historic resting place. Irish Echo, Apr 5, 2021
How the Yankees’ luckiest batboy ended up in an unmarked grave. New York Times, Apr 4, 2021
Historical remains found during construction reburied in NYC. AP News, Mar 2, 2021
Parks honors enslaved African burial ground with new signs in Joseph Rodman Drake Park. Bronx Times, Jan 27, 2021
Dorothy Parker’s Ashes Are Returned to New York. New York Times, Sep 5, 2020
NYC is not dead yet. New York Daily News, Aug 20, 2020
NYC is dead, long live NYC. AVC/Fred Wilson, Aug 18, 2020
Beautiful Naval Cemetery landscape reopens to Brooklyn’s nature lovers. Untapped New York, Jun 18, 2020
‘We do this for the living.’ Inside New York’s citywide effort to bury its dead. Time, May 21, 2020
Loved ones pack into the Island’s cemeteries as gates open up for Mother’s Day. Staten Island Advance, May 10, 2020
How this NYC gravedigger goes above and beyond during the pandemic. New York Post, May 7, 2020
How a Brooklyn neighborhood came together to bury a stranger. Time, May 1, 2020
‘There’s no way we can bury or cremate them fast enough’, New York Times, Apr 30, 2020
Watch a New York City funeral director discuss the surge in services caused by COVID-19. Time, Apr 27, 2020
Inside a New York City funeral’s home’s mission to keep bodies out of mass graves. Popular Mechanics, Apr 24, 2020
NYC to temporarily freeze bodies of Coronavirus victims instead of burying them on Hart Island. New York Daily News, Apr 21, 2020
Cemetery races to keep up as New York virus deaths mount. AP News, Apr 21, 2020
NYC’s Hart Island and coronavirus: ‘A meaningful place in a dark time.‘ CNN, Apr 11, 2020
Bringing out the dead in New York City. The New Republic, Apr 10, 2020
Deaths in New York City are more than double the usual total. New York Times, Apr 10, 2020
NYC to begin burying Coronavirus victims on Hart Island. New York Post, Apr 9, 2020
Queens cemeteries shift policies to deal with grim backlog. Queens Daily Eagle, Apr 7, 2020
City crematories have 10-plus day backup. New York Post, Apr 4, 2020
People are visiting graveyards during Coronavirus lockdown because parks are too crowded. New York Post, Apr 1, 2020
Why I’m staying in New York: a Coronavirus crisis pledge. New York Daily News, Mar 30, 2020
Parks too crowded? Meet you at the cemetery gates. New York Times, Mar 24, 2020
Construction workers in Mott Haven dig up human remains believed to be over 100 years old. News12, Feb 5, 2020 [Bensonia Cemetery]
How the discovery of an African burial ground in New York City changed the field of genetics. Washington Post, Dec 20, 2019
De Blasio signs law making Hart Island, NYC’s potter’s field, a public park. Newsday, Dec 4, 2019
City Council votes to make Hart Island more accessible. New York Post, Nov 14, 2019
Staten Island program aims to treat the least fortunate with respect in death. Staten Island Advance, Oct 3, 2019
5 playgrounds built on cemeteries in NYC. Untapped Cities, Aug 7, 2019
Encore: Billie Holiday’s grave. NPR, Jul 13, 2019
How a former Navy cemetery in Brooklyn transformed into a greenspace. NY1, Jul 3, 2019
This empty lot is worth millions. It’s also an African-American burial ground. New York Times, June 14, 2019
Hundreds pay their respects on 103rd anniversary of rabbi’s death at Graniteville cemetery. Staten Island Advance, May 17, 2019
Thieves loot $30K of goods from historic Jewish cemetery. New York Post, Apr 21, 2019
At the Queens Museum, an artist unearths the names and stories of buried women. Art Newspaper, Apr 10, 2019
Real Estate for the afterlife. New York Times, Mar 15, 2019
A visit to Mondrian’s grave. New Yorker, Feb 25, 2019
Mayor de Blasio visits the Olde Towne of Flushing burial ground. NYC.gov, Oct 26, 2018
The Triangle Shirtwaist Memorialist. New York Review of Books, Aug 31, 2018
Why was a ‘righteous gentile’ turned away from the cemetery he’s trying to save? Forward, July 23, 2018
A colonial cemetery in a park, and a question: does the city own it? New York Times, May 28, 2018
Brinckerhoff Cemetery to be sold to nonprofit group. Times Ledger, May 14, 2018
Vandal topples 63 headstones and statues at historic Brooklyn cemetery. NY Daily News, Feb 13, 2018
The night a ghost tickled my toes as I slept. Daily Mail, Jan 10, 2018
City closer to buying Brinckerhoff site. Queens Chronicle, Dec 7, 2017
New York’s opioid crisis crops up in one cemetery. NY Daily News, Sep 23, 2017
A Christmas request, answered a century later. New York Times, Dec 20, 2016
Check out photos of vintage cemeteries on Staten Island. Staten Island Advance, Nov 3, 2016
Halloween ghouls steal skeletons from Queens cemetery. Daily News, Nov 2, 2016
Land purchase may bring new life to historic cemetery. Staten Island Advance, Oct 28, 2016
Woman haunted by eerie cemetery coyote. New York Post, Oct 25, 2016
A visit to the Trump family gravesite took a very Trumpian turn. Esquire.com/Spy, Oct 11, 2016
A Brooklyn cemetery is a resting place rich in history. New York Times, July 14, 2016
Staten Island church discovers 574 underground burial spots in cemetery, one of first free-black communities. New York Daily News, July 11, 2016
Prairie heals an old wound at former Brooklyn cemetery. New York Times, July 11, 2016
Unearthing the secrets of New York’s mass graves. New York Times, May 15, 2016
The cemetery as archive. CityLab, Apr 4, 2016
Green-Wood cemetery will digitize massive archives & historic collection. Gothamist, Mar 24, 2016
Discovery of burial ground backs a less conventional version of Harlem’s history. New York Times, Jan 27, 2016
Scant burial plots have loved ones turning to cremation. Crain’s New York Business, Jan 20, 2016
Efforts to buy back Brinckerhoff colonial cemetery in limbo. Times Ledger, Jan 9, 2016
Lynn Rogers honored for preserving Staten Island’s cemeteries. Staten Island Advance, Jan 5, 2016
Historic soldiers cemetery gets new sign. News12, Nov 11, 2015 [West Farms Soldiers Cemetery]
Two centuries-old tombs unearthed beneath historic New York City park. The Guardian, Nov 7, 2015
Beneath Washington Square, forgotten tombs begin to yield their secrets. New York Times, Nov 6, 2015
Archaeologists discover burial vaults beneath Washington Square Park. abc News., Nov 6, 2015
Second old burial vault found beneath Washington Square Park. abc7NY, Nov 5, 2015
Greenwood is the Brooklyn cemetery with a velvet rope. New York Times, Oct 30, 2015
The hidden burial grounds of New York City. DNAinfo, Oct. 28, 2015
Grave robbers target bronze vases in Queens cemetery. New York Post, Oct 24, 2015
Arts group to breathe new life into abandoned Jackson Heights cemetery. DNAinfo, July 30, 2015
Families win access to Hart Island, NYC’s potter’s field. USA Today, Jul 13, 2015
New York City to allow relatives to visit grave sites at potter’s field. New York Times, Jul 8, 2015
A guide to the 20th-century artists’ graves of NYC. Hyperallergic, June 26, 2015
A walk through forgotten Brooklyn at old New Utrecht cemetery. Bensonhurst Bean, May 6, 2015
Resting place for the high and low: the Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights holds plenty of history. New York Times, Feb 6, 2015