
This eye-catching sign for the William J. Burns International Detective Agency reads like something out of a (Wes Anderson?) movie.

This eye-catching sign for the William J. Burns International Detective Agency reads like something out of a (Wes Anderson?) movie.

A sink and a two-handled cup for ritual hand washing at Mount Hebron Cemetery

at Cedar Grove Cemetery. Mount Hebron Cemetery was carved out of Cedar Grove in 1909 and now occupies about 80% of the original property. There are no physical barriers between the two intermingled cemeteries; the only distinction is that Cedar Grove is non-sectarian, while Mount Hebron is Jewish.

We previously caught sight of him from outside the cemetery fence.

My grandparents! (My grandma was one of the famous Lee Sisters.)

This section of Mount Hebron Cemetery features many former stars of Yiddish theater.

Interred here is Sam LeFrak, the prolific and bombastic builder of middle-income housing. Peeking inside the mausoleum, I spotted a collection of pamphlets for some real estate projects developed in recent years by the family company, now run by Sam's son Richard.

Sometime around 1988, Barbra Streisand built this mausoleum at Mount Hebron Cemetery as her future resting place. Her mother Diana was subsequently interred here*; her father Emanuel, who was long dead at the time of the mausoleum's construction, is buried elsewhere in the cemetery*, although there is reportedly a plan to move him here at some point. An inscription on the door reads: "Designed by Sheldon J. Streisand in memory of his beloved father, Emanuel Streisand".
* According to interment records on the cemetery's website.