The colloquial name of this little graveyard springs from the belief that many of the Irish immigrants buried here fled to Astoria in the 1840s and '50s to escape the Great Famine.
Day 214
Irish Potato Famine Cemetery
July 31st, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!
So the graveyards are in Astoria while the beautiful memorial is in Manhattan .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Hunger_Memorial