Parked right outside the cemetery

Almost made it to 103.5!

Mr. Hamlisch is the only person in history to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, a Pulitzer, and a Golden Globe.

My great-grandfather. Clara's husband.

This apparently edible weed is growing in abundance between rows of graves in the shadow of the old Betts Avenue incinerator.

into its native dust
the remains of
ANN HERVEY
a native of Scotland

I feel like this name is due for a comeback soon.

In fact, it's already started. After having last been one of the top 1000 male baby names in the US in 1923, it re-emerged on the list in 2004, and was ranked No. 823 in 2012.

Opened in 1893, Mount Zion Cemetery contains within its bounds the tiny, and much older, Betts family cemetery, whose relative scarcity of headstones sets it apart from its jam-packed surroundings. This area was once part of the estate of Captain Richard Betts, who is said to have dug his own (unmarked) grave here in 1713 at the age of 100. The stone in the foreground belongs to Daniel Betts Jr., Captain Richard's great-grandson, whose wife supposedly outlived him by 76 years, dying at the age of 109!

An ark with a Torah inside, appropriately decorated with a couple of stags

Mount Zion Cemetery, towered over by the stacks of the defunct Betts Avenue incinerator

Pedestrians only

As we've seen, New York's emergency call boxes come in many different forms. This is the shell of an old Gamewell (check out the awesome logo) telegraphic fire alarm box with a modern telephonic fire/police button unit installed inside it. Gamewell was the dominant manufacturer of fire call boxes in the US, but this is the first Gamewell box I've noticed in NYC — within the city, they're apparently only found in a few neighborhoods in Queens.

The cylindrical thing mounted on top of the box is a mechanical Arrestolarm, which would have blasted a "loud and distinctive warning shriek" whenever the box was triggered. This was intended to discourage pranksters from setting off false alarms by drawing immediate attention to anyone reporting a fire.