A Twelve Tribes of Israel meeting house

Kevin Miller Jr., killed by stray gunfire at the age of 13

This new burial area here at Montefiore Cemetery seems to be populated exclusively by laser-etched headstones for Jews from the former Soviet Union. We saw the same phenomenon last year at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Private Sidney Maxon

of the Ohel

You can see photos of all four sides here.

My great-grandmother! I thought I had discovered her grave the last time I was here at Montefiore Cemetery, but it turned out I had found a different Clara Green.

A glance at the other side of this truck reveals an association with Kev's Place across the street, where "Everyone is like family".

From the NY Times:

The property has been left alone, and is still owned by the surviving son.

"He's in there," Mrs. Barfield said. "We all know this."

In — there? That seems very unlikely. The gate was padlocked, the windows boarded up, and there was no apparent heat or electricity. . . .

Mrs. Barfield offered one hypothesis circulating among neighbors: the bunker. Years ago, she said, when the roundabout at 225th Street and 141st Avenue was being dug, the father and sons were seen at night hauling stones back to their house to build what the neighbors thought — though they had no evidence to support it — was an underground chamber.

That piggybacked on other baseless rumors that were fueled by the fact that the father was German and that in 1964 an otherwise ordinary German housewife in Maspeth, Queens, was unmasked as a former guard at a Nazi death camp.

Nevertheless, rumors, a reality in every neighborhood, persisted.

WABC Musicradio 77

I'm not sure if the organization of that name still exists; perhaps the group's memory now lives on in this hopefully fertile patch of earth beside Mt. Zion Lutheran Church.

The Old Croton Aqueduct, out of service for several decades now, still cuts a slanted swath across the street grid of Upper Manhattan on its subterranean path from the southern end of Highbridge Park down toward 151st Street, where it turns south and runs directly beneath Amsterdam Avenue for a couple of miles. Standing on 153rd Street, above, you can see some oddly shaped buildings whose oblique walls skirt the course of the aqueduct as it slices diagonally through the middle of the block on its way toward 152nd Street. The aqueduct's route through this area is clearly visible as a treed corridor in aerial photos, and as a chain of elongated lots arcing across the city's tax map with total disregard for any sense of rectilinear real estate order.

Located in Manhattan's highest neighborhood