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Today’s route — 17.2 miles

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Back at Calvary

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Today I'm walking around the newer sections of Queens's Calvary Cemetery, which, as we learned last year, is the final resting place of a mind-boggling 1,750,000 to 3,000,000 people.

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Memorial to the Unborn

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In case you can't tell, Calvary is a Catholic cemetery.

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Cemetery rose

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9-year-old Alan

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and his 82-year-old father are buried here.

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Happy Halloween!

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(Birthday)

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Bruno and the BQE

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A weathered outlook

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Dempsey

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Holy Mother and Child

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A real cast of characters

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Picking lilies

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A massive Celtic cross

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Erected by the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood Veterans Association in 1907 to memorialize the "men of 1865-1867"

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Mickey Spillane

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The "last of the gentleman gangsters"

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Peering into a mausoleum

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Portal of the day

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A dubious claim

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This chunk of median at the intersection of Queens Boulevard and 58th Street seems to believe it is located at the geographic center of NYC. The Department of City Planning, however, says that the city's geographic center actually lies about two and a half miles away, on Stockholm Street between Wyckoff Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue in Bushwick.

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Used to be a HOTELHOTELHOTELHOTELHOTELHOTEL...

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Exploiting national tragedies

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to sell Dutch beer to the Irish

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Stella!!

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Stuck to a dead-end retaining wall on 47th Avenue

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Peeking through

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48th Avenue

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A very rare Queens step street

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Packin’ ’em in

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Gazing down into Mount Zion Cemetery