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August 5, 2005

A Tour of Gravesend Cemetery

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The Bridge & Tunnel Club have posted a neat photographic tour of the Old Gravesend Cemetery. Forgotten NY, which has its own photographic tour online, laments the poor treatment the 1643 cemetery has suffered at the hands of its neighbors. The area, between Bensonhurst and Coney Island, has many of the oldest houses in the City, including the Lady Moody house pictured on the jump.
Gravesend Cemetery [Bridge & Tunnel Club]
Gravesend [Forgotten NY]

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Lady Moody House, circa 1670.




Posted by Brownstoner at 10:06 AM | Comments (4)
Categories: Historical

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Oldest houses in the city is correct. I have an old picture ( which is framed and I cant scan) of my house with nothing behind it but the NYC skyline. Everything was farm land. That was 1901..

Here is the link to my house now. Boy I love shingles.


http://www.swelldesigns.com/slideshow/slideshow.html

Posted by: Anonymous at August 5, 2005 10:58 AM

"It passed through various hands before winding up with the Van Sicklen brothers, John and Abraham, who may also have built the house in 1770. In either case, the house never belonged to Lady Moody. "Lady Moody House" is a fiction dreamed up by a real estate office in the 1890s. It's a very old building no matter how you slice it."

Posted by: iceberg at August 5, 2005 12:02 PM

Corcoran had the "Lady Moody" house on offer about two years ago. Can't remember what they were asking. Around $800 something, I think... That siding, though. Ugghhhhh.... Am I wrong, or is that the asbestos variety?

Posted by: Anonymous at August 5, 2005 12:06 PM

Yes my name is Margaret and i have lived in Gravesend all my life recently i moved to Staten island, miss sitting near the cemetary, i would love to know how to get a tour group inside.. if anyone has any info please email me at merckixxes@aol.com thank you,Margaret Carrube

Posted by: guest at December 1, 2007 7:56 AM

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