They're running out of places to bury people here at St. John Cemetery. In the photo above, we can see the former route of a path that has been removed (before and after) to make room for more graves.
a.k.a. Lucky Luciano, one of a staggering number of prominent mobsters buried here in St. John Cemetery
Angelo Siciliano was a "97-pound weakling" who transformed himself into Charles Atlas, the millionaire muscleman with the famously advertised mail-order fitness course.
From his 1989 NY Times obituary:
Mr. Mapplethorpe first gained widespread notice in the late 1970's for his elegantly composed, beautifully printed black-and-white photographs of the male figure, many of which were explicitly homoerotic. But he photographed the female nude with equal stylishness. Throughout his career he made portraits and still lifes of an almost sublime simplicity and intensity.
His photographs show a remarkable ability to give even the most common photographic subjects the status of icons.
One of Brooklyn's most successful beer brewers and the man behind the spectacular St. Barbara's Church in Bushwick
John Youngaitis stuffs animals large and small, wild and domestic.
This monument (reminiscent in a way of one we saw in Bayside) is a little factually challenged. For one thing, the Korean War ended in 1953, not 1955. As for the most recently added conflict: 1990 was the start of the seven-month-long Gulf War against the state of Iraq, while the War on Terror(ism) commenced in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.
