Tag: Blissville

The Doherty monument in First Calvary is one beautiful bit of carving, in my opinion. Art school ...

Kerosene was “invented” by a Canadian named Abraham Gesner, who built the first large scale re...

Review Avenue starts underneath the Long Island Expressway in LIC and snakes past Calvary Cemetery...

As mentioned, I spend an atrocious amount of time studying century-old publications and journals f...

A magnificent and somewhat unique example of mortuary sculpture found at First Calvary Cemetery he...

My mandate in Newtown Creek Alliance is to act as historian, as well as a photographer, and the bu...

Locked inside and insulated from the hideous weather, I've been reminiscing about the time when yo...

The whole Newtown Creek thing causes me to spend a lot of time traveling back and forth to Greenpo...

Long have I been intrigued by this little "fix a flat" building which sits at the cross roads of G...

The father of modern Greenpoint was a Yankee engineer named Neziah Bliss. In addition to his effor...