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When a series of dangerous paranormal events plagues a home, famed psychical researcher and author Hereward Carrington is called in to investigate the “Gold and Ghost” haunted house in Astoria

In 1934, a 30-year-old man and his 80-year-old housekeeper supposedly experienced a series of paranormal events at their home in Astoria, NY. One of their tenants was strangled (non-fatally) in bed, the housekeeper and her German Shepherd were thrown to the ground hard enough to break limbs, and the man was visited in the night by a shadow person-type ghost who told him that there was gold buried underneath his basement. The story just gets weirder from there, and even famed researcher Hereward Carrington wasn’t able to untangle the details. To this day, questions remain about this story full of strange contradictions and puzzling details.

Highlights include:
• An abandoned secret passageway
• Psychics confirming a ghost’s claim
• A stumped paranormal investigator
• Buried treasure

Sources consulted RE: Haunted House in Astoria (and the Haunted Astoria series)

Books consulted RE: Haunted Houses in Astoria

• New York City Ghost Stories by Charles J. Adams III (1996)
• History of Long Island City, New York by J. S Kelsey; 1896
• Old roads from the heart of New York : journeys today by ways of yesterday, within thirty miles around the Battery by Sarah Comstock
• American Myths & Legends by Charles M. Skinner (1903)
• Long Island, New York, business directory 1878-1879
• History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals (1882)
• New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond by Federal Writers’ Project (N.Y.)
• Queens Borough; being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Queens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed … Issued by the Manufacturing and industrial committee of the Chamber of commerce of the borough of Queens; by Chamber of Commerce (Queens, New York, N.Y.); Willis, Walter I., comp 1913
• Illustrated history of the borough of Queens, New York city by Skal, Georg von, b.1854; Smiley, F. T., publishing co., New York city, comp. [from old catalog] 1908:
• Portrait and biographical record of Queens County (Long Island) New York by Geoffrey Chapman Publishers (1896)
• A Loiterer In New York by Helen Weston Henderson, 1917
• Etchings of old New York by Eliza Greatorex (1875)
• The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells

Articles RE: Haunted House in Astoria

• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 12
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 21
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
• Standard-Sentinel (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) · Mon, Jan 1, 1940 · Page 6
• Mower County Transcript (Lansing, Minnesota) · Thu, Feb 12, 1874 · Page 1
• New-York Tribune. November 23, 1858
• “Another Hanted House in Astoria” The Evening Post.. November 23, 1858
• “It was a White Horse And something that Looked like a Red-headed Ghost Leading it.” June 28, 1888 Brooklyn Times Union
• New York Daily Herald (New York, New York) · Thu, Jan 29, 1874 · Page 8
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Jan 29, 1874 · Page 3
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 12
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 21
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Sep 4 1869
• Another Haunted House in Astoria. Evening Post (published as The Evening Post.) (New York, New York)November 23, 1858
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 18 1886
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Wed Dec 27 1893
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Mar 7 1925
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 11 1937
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Courier Fri Feb 2 1900
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900
  Evening Post published as The Evening Post. November 23 1858
• New York Tribune published as New-York Tribune. November 23 1858
• Brooklyn Times Union Mon Oct 25 1909
• The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), February 13, 1921, (SECTION 6)
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Jun 28 1888
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 2 
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 1
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK)
• The Appeal Sat Feb 24 1900
• The Inter Ocean Sun Jan 21 1900
• The Evening World Wed Nov 29 1893
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Apr 19 1928
• The Tonganoxie Mirror Thu Jul 19 1883
• Reading Times Mon Jan 20 1896 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Nov 8 1885 (1)
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1889-12-30/ed-1/?sp=3&q=astoria+ghost&r=-0.026,0.482,0.453,0.19,0
• The times (Washington [D.C.]), December 19, 1897: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85054468/1897-12-19/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.109,0.598,0.884,0.371,0
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.489,0.945,0.683,0.365,0
• Image 8 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), January 7, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1919-01-07/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.385,0.216,0.487,0.205,0
• Image 7 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), February 17, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-02-17/ed-1/?sp=7&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.569,0.553,0.276,0.116,0
• Image 10 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), February 10, 1906: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1906-02-10/ed-1/?sp=10&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.719,0.853,0.417,0.223,0
• Image 4 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), September 30, 1905
• Image 21 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), May 27, 1921: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-05-27/ed-1/?sp=21&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.342,0.678,0.311,0.166,0
• Image 16 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), October 5, 1904: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1904-10-05/ed-1/?sp=16&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.323,1.204,0.323,0.173,0
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/576215460
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/52695146
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/59991092
• https://www.qgazette.com/articles/pages-from-the-long-island-star-journal-9/
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.555,0.033,0.321,0.148,0
• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Tue Nov 13 1894

   

Websites consulted 

• https://notjustopera.com/steve/vital/nyctaxphotos.php?year=1939-1941&borough=&number=30-35+&street=31st+Street&block=&lot=

• https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~9~9~126332~953053:3035-31-Street?sort=borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code
  https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/576215460 Downloaded on Jun 1, 2021

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereward_Carrington

• Carrington’s Books: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Hereward+Carrington%22

• https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5832

• https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161028/prospect-lefferts-gardens/creepy-halloween-bridewell-prison-van-cortlandt-manor-astoria-willowbrook/

• “The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery,” Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/so-called-kidnapping-club-featured-new-york-cops-selling-free-blacks-slavery-180976055/
• https://crimereads.com/the-kidnapping-club-that-terrorized-african-americans-in-19th-century-new-york/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Riker
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/dating-the-start-and-end-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/li-press-1968_large.htm
• https://www.geni.com/people/David-Provoost-II/6000000002766404071
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Provost
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/jones-woods-cemeteries/
• https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0c20-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
• Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 108, 17 January 1906 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19060117.2.18&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant_Island
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/u-thant-island
• Records of enslaved people in Newtown, Queens: https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=5MCUK448ECO579156B8UL5N69FD4FP9HR01OXX509Z67L48DL4CAXL8EEI52U669I1O38XF12FE61JXWM4Y10N2Z9JAN9LHJU8BN2285018P4549838QC2RQ2L4EH2QX
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Assassination
• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/33/v33i01p029-034.pdf
• https://kellykazek.com/2018/06/25/bet-you-didnt-know-about-this-haunted-american-castle/
• https://time.com/96533/thieves-break-into-james-a-garfields-tomb/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2009/06/13/a-big-dig-in-queens/
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/who-really-ran-the-underground-railroad/
• https://www.6sqft.com/15-underground-railroad-stops-in-new-york-city/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=1WXJ2370QHI6H9C815459UHS4F9AVG7ZNZ5RH7T39B21KWP081R95709VQVLNQPWX8M9A7IO8M3W22FY550M360BW077FZ21H52A90IQ93SZZS0A870A6XT8EJ4V78I8
• https://www.6sqft.com/search-over-35000-records-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.6sqft.com/before-nycs-slave-market-freedmen-from-africa-were-allowed-to-own-farmland/
• https://www.6sqft.com/in-the-1700s-there-was-an-official-location-for-buying-selling-and-renting-slaves-on-wall-street/
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://oana-ny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/old_astoria_map_1873_bg-1024×666.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://shop.old-maps.com/new-york/towns/kings-queens-cos-ny-1859-town/astoria-new-york-1859-old-town-map-custom-print-queens-co/
• https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/n-zfvgw8/wkatj7/products/109812/images/126869/LongIslandCity_Astoria_MiddleVillage_1873_web__84173.1548088614.1280.1280.jpg?c=2
• https://www.mapsofantiquity.com/store/Antique_Maps_-_United_States/Northeast/New_York/Long_Island/Astoria,_New_York,_verso_Woodside,_Maspeth,_East_Williamsburg,_Newtown/inventory.pl?id=NYO016
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/astoria.jpg
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/halsall7.asp
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necrology/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necology-continued/
• https://cdn6.picryl.com/photo/1903/12/31/queens-vol-2-double-page-plate-no-30-part-of-ward-two-newtown-trains-meadow-6c7e10-1600.jpg
• https://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/you-ain-t-afraid-of-no-ghost-we-ll-see-about-that/article_010ee09d-001f-5505-a643-147da790ecbf.html

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• Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate, New York City
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Hidden Cemeteries in Astoria, Queens, NYC
• Tombstones Around Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NYC
• Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery: Part 1 (Hidden Cemeteries)
• Moore-Jackson Cemetery (Hidden Cemeteries)

A look at some 19th century tales of haunted houses in Astoria, NY.

Highlights include:
• A ghost spider
• Debunkings
• A runaway horse

Sources consulted RE: Haunted Houses in Astoria (and the Haunted Astoria series)

Books RE: Haunted Houses in Astoria

• The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells
• History of Long Island City, New York by J. S Kelsey; 1896
• Old roads from the heart of New York : journeys today by ways of yesterday, within thirty miles around the Battery by Sarah Comstock
• American Myths & Legends by Charles M. Skinner (1903)
• Long Island, New York, business directory 1878-1879
• History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals (1882)
• New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond by Federal Writers’ Project (N.Y.)
• Queens Borough; being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Queens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed … Issued by the Manufacturing and industrial committee of the Chamber of commerce of the borough of Queens; by Chamber of Commerce (Queens, New York, N.Y.); Willis, Walter I., comp 1913
• Illustrated history of the borough of Queens, New York city by Skal, Georg von, b.1854; Smiley, F. T., publishing co., New York city, comp. [from old catalog] 1908:
• Portrait and biographical record of Queens County (Long Island) New York by Geoffrey Chapman Publishers (1896)
• A Loiterer In New York by Helen Weston Henderson, 1917
• Etchings of old New York by Eliza Greatorex (1875)

Articles RE: Haunted Houses in Astoria

• Mower County Transcript (Lansing, Minnesota) · Thu, Feb 12, 1874 · Page 1
• New-York Tribune. November 23, 1858
• “Another Hanted House in Astoria” The Evening Post.. November 23, 1858
• “It was a White Horse And something that Looked like a Red-headed Ghost Leading it.” June 28, 1888 Brooklyn Times Union
• New York Daily Herald (New York, New York) · Thu, Jan 29, 1874 · Page 8
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Jan 29, 1874 · Page 3
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 12
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 21
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Sep 4 1869
• Another Haunted House in Astoria. Evening Post (published as The Evening Post.) (New York, New York)November 23, 1858
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 18 1886
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Wed Dec 27 1893
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Mar 7 1925
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 11 1937
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Courier Fri Feb 2 1900
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900
  Evening Post published as The Evening Post. November 23 1858
• New York Tribune published as New-York Tribune. November 23 1858
• Brooklyn Times Union Mon Oct 25 1909
• The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), February 13, 1921, (SECTION 6)
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Jun 28 1888
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 2 
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 1
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK)
• The Appeal Sat Feb 24 1900
• The Inter Ocean Sun Jan 21 1900
• The Evening World Wed Nov 29 1893
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Apr 19 1928
• The Tonganoxie Mirror Thu Jul 19 1883
• Reading Times Mon Jan 20 1896 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Nov 8 1885 (1)
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1889-12-30/ed-1/?sp=3&q=astoria+ghost&r=-0.026,0.482,0.453,0.19,0
• The times (Washington [D.C.]), December 19, 1897: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85054468/1897-12-19/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.109,0.598,0.884,0.371,0
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.489,0.945,0.683,0.365,0
• Image 8 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), January 7, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1919-01-07/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.385,0.216,0.487,0.205,0
• Image 7 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), February 17, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-02-17/ed-1/?sp=7&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.569,0.553,0.276,0.116,0
• Image 10 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), February 10, 1906: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1906-02-10/ed-1/?sp=10&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.719,0.853,0.417,0.223,0
• Image 4 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), September 30, 1905
• Image 21 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), May 27, 1921: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-05-27/ed-1/?sp=21&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.342,0.678,0.311,0.166,0
• Image 16 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), October 5, 1904: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1904-10-05/ed-1/?sp=16&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.323,1.204,0.323,0.173,0
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/576215460
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/52695146
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/59991092
• https://www.qgazette.com/articles/pages-from-the-long-island-star-journal-9/
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.555,0.033,0.321,0.148,0
• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Tue Nov 13 1894

   

Websites consulted RE: Haunted Houses in Astoria

• “The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery,” Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/so-called-kidnapping-club-featured-new-york-cops-selling-free-blacks-slavery-180976055/
• https://crimereads.com/the-kidnapping-club-that-terrorized-african-americans-in-19th-century-new-york/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Riker
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/dating-the-start-and-end-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/li-press-1968_large.htm
• https://www.geni.com/people/David-Provoost-II/6000000002766404071
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Provost
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/jones-woods-cemeteries/
• https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0c20-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
• Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 108, 17 January 1906 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19060117.2.18&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant_Island
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/u-thant-island
• Records of enslaved people in Newtown, Queens: https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=5MCUK448ECO579156B8UL5N69FD4FP9HR01OXX509Z67L48DL4CAXL8EEI52U669I1O38XF12FE61JXWM4Y10N2Z9JAN9LHJU8BN2285018P4549838QC2RQ2L4EH2QX
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Assassination
• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/33/v33i01p029-034.pdf
• https://kellykazek.com/2018/06/25/bet-you-didnt-know-about-this-haunted-american-castle/
• https://time.com/96533/thieves-break-into-james-a-garfields-tomb/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2009/06/13/a-big-dig-in-queens/
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/who-really-ran-the-underground-railroad/
• https://www.6sqft.com/15-underground-railroad-stops-in-new-york-city/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=1WXJ2370QHI6H9C815459UHS4F9AVG7ZNZ5RH7T39B21KWP081R95709VQVLNQPWX8M9A7IO8M3W22FY550M360BW077FZ21H52A90IQ93SZZS0A870A6XT8EJ4V78I8
• https://www.6sqft.com/search-over-35000-records-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.6sqft.com/before-nycs-slave-market-freedmen-from-africa-were-allowed-to-own-farmland/
• https://www.6sqft.com/in-the-1700s-there-was-an-official-location-for-buying-selling-and-renting-slaves-on-wall-street/
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://oana-ny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/old_astoria_map_1873_bg-1024×666.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://shop.old-maps.com/new-york/towns/kings-queens-cos-ny-1859-town/astoria-new-york-1859-old-town-map-custom-print-queens-co/
• https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/n-zfvgw8/wkatj7/products/109812/images/126869/LongIslandCity_Astoria_MiddleVillage_1873_web__84173.1548088614.1280.1280.jpg?c=2
• https://www.mapsofantiquity.com/store/Antique_Maps_-_United_States/Northeast/New_York/Long_Island/Astoria,_New_York,_verso_Woodside,_Maspeth,_East_Williamsburg,_Newtown/inventory.pl?id=NYO016
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/astoria.jpg
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/halsall7.asp
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necrology/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necology-continued/
• https://cdn6.picryl.com/photo/1903/12/31/queens-vol-2-double-page-plate-no-30-part-of-ward-two-newtown-trains-meadow-6c7e10-1600.jpg
• https://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/you-ain-t-afraid-of-no-ghost-we-ll-see-about-that/article_010ee09d-001f-5505-a643-147da790ecbf.html

Don’t miss past episodes:

• Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate, New York City
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Hidden Cemeteries in Astoria, Queens, NYC
• Tombstones Around Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NYC
• Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery: Part 1 (Hidden Cemeteries)
• Moore-Jackson Cemetery (Hidden Cemeteries)

A smuggler’s ghost in Astoria, NY, stories about tunnels in Astoria, NY, as well as more of the neighborhood’s grim history.

Note: There’s mention of chattel slavery around the 15 min mark, and more details after the 18 minute mark.

Highlights include:
• A haunted cave that’s disappeared
• Horrific deeds done by a famous Astorian
• Some awful deaths in a tunnel under the river
• A manmade island
• The spooky Hell Gate

Sources consulted RE: Smuggler’s Ghost and Tunnels in Astoria, NY

Books RE: 

• The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells
• History of Long Island City, New York by J. S Kelsey; 1896
• Old roads from the heart of New York : journeys today by ways of yesterday, within thirty miles around the Battery by Sarah Comstock
• American Myths & Legends by Charles M. Skinner (1903)
• Long Island, New York, business directory 1878-1879
• History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals (1882)
• New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond by Federal Writers’ Project (N.Y.)
• Queens Borough; being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Queens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed … Issued by the Manufacturing and industrial committee of the Chamber of commerce of the borough of Queens; by Chamber of Commerce (Queens, New York, N.Y.); Willis, Walter I., comp 1913
• Illustrated history of the borough of Queens, New York city by Skal, Georg von, b.1854; Smiley, F. T., publishing co., New York city, comp. [from old catalog] 1908:
• Portrait and biographical record of Queens County (Long Island) New York by Geoffrey Chapman Publishers (1896)
• A Loiterer In New York by Helen Weston Henderson, 1917
• Etchings of old New York by Eliza Greatorex (1875)

Articles RE: Smuggler’s Ghost Astoria

• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Sep 4 1869
• Another Haunted House in Astoria. Evening Post (published as The Evening Post.) (New York, New York)November 23, 1858
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 18 1886
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Wed Dec 27 1893
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Mar 7 1925
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 11 1937
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Courier Fri Feb 2 1900
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900
  Evening Post published as The Evening Post. November 23 1858
• New York Tribune published as New-York Tribune. November 23 1858
• Brooklyn Times Union Mon Oct 25 1909
• The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), February 13, 1921, (SECTION 6)
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Jun 28 1888
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 2 
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 1
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK)
• The Appeal Sat Feb 24 1900
• The Inter Ocean Sun Jan 21 1900
• The Evening World Wed Nov 29 1893
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Apr 19 1928
• The Tonganoxie Mirror Thu Jul 19 1883
• Reading Times Mon Jan 20 1896 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Nov 8 1885 (1)
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1889-12-30/ed-1/?sp=3&q=astoria+ghost&r=-0.026,0.482,0.453,0.19,0
• The times (Washington [D.C.]), December 19, 1897: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85054468/1897-12-19/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.109,0.598,0.884,0.371,0
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.489,0.945,0.683,0.365,0
• Image 8 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), January 7, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1919-01-07/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.385,0.216,0.487,0.205,0
• Image 7 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), February 17, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-02-17/ed-1/?sp=7&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.569,0.553,0.276,0.116,0
• Image 10 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), February 10, 1906: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1906-02-10/ed-1/?sp=10&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.719,0.853,0.417,0.223,0
• Image 4 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), September 30, 1905
• Image 21 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), May 27, 1921: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-05-27/ed-1/?sp=21&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.342,0.678,0.311,0.166,0
• Image 16 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), October 5, 1904: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1904-10-05/ed-1/?sp=16&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.323,1.204,0.323,0.173,0
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/576215460
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/52695146
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/59991092
• https://www.qgazette.com/articles/pages-from-the-long-island-star-journal-9/
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.555,0.033,0.321,0.148,0
• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Tue Nov 13 1894

   

Websites consulted RE: Smuggler’s Ghost Astoria

• “The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery,” Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/so-called-kidnapping-club-featured-new-york-cops-selling-free-blacks-slavery-180976055/
• https://crimereads.com/the-kidnapping-club-that-terrorized-african-americans-in-19th-century-new-york/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Riker
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/dating-the-start-and-end-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/li-press-1968_large.htm
• https://www.geni.com/people/David-Provoost-II/6000000002766404071
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Provost
• https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/jones-woods-cemeteries/
• https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0c20-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
• Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 108, 17 January 1906 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19060117.2.18&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant_Island
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/u-thant-island
• Records of enslaved people in Newtown, Queens: https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=5MCUK448ECO579156B8UL5N69FD4FP9HR01OXX509Z67L48DL4CAXL8EEI52U669I1O38XF12FE61JXWM4Y10N2Z9JAN9LHJU8BN2285018P4549838QC2RQ2L4EH2QX
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Assassination
• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/33/v33i01p029-034.pdf
• https://kellykazek.com/2018/06/25/bet-you-didnt-know-about-this-haunted-american-castle/
• https://time.com/96533/thieves-break-into-james-a-garfields-tomb/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2009/06/13/a-big-dig-in-queens/
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/who-really-ran-the-underground-railroad/
• https://www.6sqft.com/15-underground-railroad-stops-in-new-york-city/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=1WXJ2370QHI6H9C815459UHS4F9AVG7ZNZ5RH7T39B21KWP081R95709VQVLNQPWX8M9A7IO8M3W22FY550M360BW077FZ21H52A90IQ93SZZS0A870A6XT8EJ4V78I8
• https://www.6sqft.com/search-over-35000-records-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.6sqft.com/before-nycs-slave-market-freedmen-from-africa-were-allowed-to-own-farmland/
• https://www.6sqft.com/in-the-1700s-there-was-an-official-location-for-buying-selling-and-renting-slaves-on-wall-street/
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://oana-ny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/old_astoria_map_1873_bg-1024×666.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://shop.old-maps.com/new-york/towns/kings-queens-cos-ny-1859-town/astoria-new-york-1859-old-town-map-custom-print-queens-co/
• https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/n-zfvgw8/wkatj7/products/109812/images/126869/LongIslandCity_Astoria_MiddleVillage_1873_web__84173.1548088614.1280.1280.jpg?c=2
• https://www.mapsofantiquity.com/store/Antique_Maps_-_United_States/Northeast/New_York/Long_Island/Astoria,_New_York,_verso_Woodside,_Maspeth,_East_Williamsburg,_Newtown/inventory.pl?id=NYO016
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/astoria.jpg
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/halsall7.asp
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necrology/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necology-continued/
• https://cdn6.picryl.com/photo/1903/12/31/queens-vol-2-double-page-plate-no-30-part-of-ward-two-newtown-trains-meadow-6c7e10-1600.jpg
• https://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/you-ain-t-afraid-of-no-ghost-we-ll-see-about-that/article_010ee09d-001f-5505-a643-147da790ecbf.html

Don’t miss past episodes:

• Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate, New York City
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Hidden Cemeteries in Astoria, Queens, NYC
• Tombstones Around Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NYC
• Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery: Part 1 (Hidden Cemeteries)
• Moore-Jackson Cemetery (Hidden Cemeteries)

A look at some female ghosts of Astoria, Queens, in New York City.

Note: There’s discussion of chattel slavery after the 26 minute mark.

Highlights include:
• The American president who was supposedly shot on his way to see a haunting
• A ghost who disappears if she stops knitting
• A lady in white and a hag who haunt the same block
• A shameful side of Astoria’s history

Sources consulted RE: Ghosts of Astoria

Books RE: Ghosts of Astoria

• History of Long Island City, New York by J. S Kelsey; 1896
• Old roads from the heart of New York : journeys today by ways of yesterday, within thirty miles around the Battery by Sarah Comstock
• American Myths & Legends by Charles M. Skinner (1903)

Articles RE: Ghosts of Astoria

• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Sep 4 1869
• Another Haunted House in Astoria. Evening Post (published as The Evening Post.) (New York, New York)November 23, 1858
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 18 1886
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Wed Dec 27 1893
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat Mar 7 1925
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Jul 11 1937
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Nov 22 1934
• The Courier Fri Feb 2 1900
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900
  Evening Post published as The Evening Post. November 23 1858
• New York Tribune published as New-York Tribune. November 23 1858
• Brooklyn Times Union Mon Oct 25 1909
• The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), February 13, 1921, (SECTION 6)
• Brooklyn Times Union Thu Jun 28 1888
• GOLD GHOST WALKS IN ASTORIA HOUSE: Psychic Expert, Called to Old … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 21, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 2 
• POLICEMEN’S QUEST FOR GHOSTS FUTILE: Three Carloads Go to Astoria’s … New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1934; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index pg. 1
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK)
• The Appeal Sat Feb 24 1900
• The Inter Ocean Sun Jan 21 1900
• The Evening World Wed Nov 29 1893
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thu Apr 19 1928
• The Tonganoxie Mirror Thu Jul 19 1883
• Reading Times Mon Jan 20 1896 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun Nov 8 1885 (1)
• The evening world (New York, N.Y.), December 30, 1889, (EXTRA 2 O’CLOCK) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1889-12-30/ed-1/?sp=3&q=astoria+ghost&r=-0.026,0.482,0.453,0.19,0
• The times (Washington [D.C.]), December 19, 1897: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85054468/1897-12-19/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.109,0.598,0.884,0.371,0
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.489,0.945,0.683,0.365,0
• Image 8 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), January 7, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1919-01-07/ed-1/?sp=8&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.385,0.216,0.487,0.205,0
• Image 7 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), February 17, 1919: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-02-17/ed-1/?sp=7&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.569,0.553,0.276,0.116,0
• Image 10 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), February 10, 1906: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1906-02-10/ed-1/?sp=10&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.719,0.853,0.417,0.223,0
• Image 4 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), September 30, 1905
• Image 21 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), May 27, 1921: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1921-05-27/ed-1/?sp=21&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.342,0.678,0.311,0.166,0
• Image 16 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), October 5, 1904: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1904-10-05/ed-1/?sp=16&q=astoria+sanatorium&r=0.323,1.204,0.323,0.173,0
• Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/576215460
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Sun, Jul 11, 1937 · Page 8: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/52695146
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Thu, Nov 22, 1934 · Page 24: https://bplonsite.newspapers.com/image/59991092
• https://www.qgazette.com/articles/pages-from-the-long-island-star-journal-9/
• Image 18 of The sun (New York [N.Y.]), January 14, 1900: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-01-14/ed-1/?sp=18&q=astoria+ghost&r=0.555,0.033,0.321,0.148,0
• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Tue Nov 13 1894

   

Websites

• Records of enslaved people in Newtown, Queens: https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=5MCUK448ECO579156B8UL5N69FD4FP9HR01OXX509Z67L48DL4CAXL8EEI52U669I1O38XF12FE61JXWM4Y10N2Z9JAN9LHJU8BN2285018P4549838QC2RQ2L4EH2QX
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#Assassination
• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/33/v33i01p029-034.pdf
• https://kellykazek.com/2018/06/25/bet-you-didnt-know-about-this-haunted-american-castle/
• https://time.com/96533/thieves-break-into-james-a-garfields-tomb/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg
• https://newtownpentacle.com/2009/06/13/a-big-dig-in-queens/
• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/who-really-ran-the-underground-railroad/
• https://www.6sqft.com/15-underground-railroad-stops-in-new-york-city/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/search/?appSession=1WXJ2370QHI6H9C815459UHS4F9AVG7ZNZ5RH7T39B21KWP081R95709VQVLNQPWX8M9A7IO8M3W22FY550M360BW077FZ21H52A90IQ93SZZS0A870A6XT8EJ4V78I8
• https://www.6sqft.com/search-over-35000-records-of-slavery-in-new-york/
• https://www.6sqft.com/before-nycs-slave-market-freedmen-from-africa-were-allowed-to-own-farmland/
• https://www.6sqft.com/in-the-1700s-there-was-an-official-location-for-buying-selling-and-renting-slaves-on-wall-street/
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://oana-ny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/old_astoria_map_1873_bg-1024×666.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1873_Beers_Map_of_Astoria,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_Astoria-beers-1873.jpg
• https://shop.old-maps.com/new-york/towns/kings-queens-cos-ny-1859-town/astoria-new-york-1859-old-town-map-custom-print-queens-co/
• https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/n-zfvgw8/wkatj7/products/109812/images/126869/LongIslandCity_Astoria_MiddleVillage_1873_web__84173.1548088614.1280.1280.jpg?c=2
• https://www.mapsofantiquity.com/store/Antique_Maps_-_United_States/Northeast/New_York/Long_Island/Astoria,_New_York,_verso_Woodside,_Maspeth,_East_Williamsburg,_Newtown/inventory.pl?id=NYO016
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/astoria.jpg
• https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/medny/halsall7.asp
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necrology/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2002/02/astoria-necology-continued/
• https://cdn6.picryl.com/photo/1903/12/31/queens-vol-2-double-page-plate-no-30-part-of-ward-two-newtown-trains-meadow-6c7e10-1600.jpg
• https://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/you-ain-t-afraid-of-no-ghost-we-ll-see-about-that/article_010ee09d-001f-5505-a643-147da790ecbf.html

Don’t miss past episodes:

• Sunken Treasure at Hell Gate, New York City
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Hidden Cemeteries in Astoria, Queens, NYC
• Tombstones Around Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NYC
• Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery: Part 1 (Hidden Cemeteries)
• Moore-Jackson Cemetery (Hidden Cemeteries)

A look at the fortune telling teacups, which were popular in the early 20th century, and were adorned with symbols meant to aid in interpreting tea leaves.

Highlights include:
• The different varieties of fortune telling teacups
• An attempt at a tea leaf reading

Sources consulted RE: Fortune Telling Teacups

Books RE: Fortune Telling Teacups

• Tea-Cup Fortune Telling (author unknown), 1930:
  https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200946
• Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18241/18241-h/18241-h.htm
• Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves 1946 by Cicely Kent: https://archive.org/details/TellingFortunesByTeaLeaves

Articles RE: Fortune Telling Teacups

• 15 Jul 1893, Page 32 – The Railroad Telegrapher at Newspapers.com
• Asheville Gazette News Sat Jul 16 1910
• Baxter Springs News Thu Nov 16 1911
• Beatrice Weekly Times Thu Nov 8 1900
• Brooklyn Times Union Sat May 17 1890
• Buffalo Courier Sun Mar 8 1925
• Buffalo Courier Wed Aug 3 1910
• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Sat Feb 1 1896
• Chattanooga Daily Times Sun Jan 8 1899
• Evening Star Sat Aug 1 1896
• Fall River Daily Globe Tue May 23 1899
• Great Bend Tribune Wed Mar 6 1907
• Knoxville Sentinel Sat Feb 3 1900
• Logansport Pharos Tribune Fri May 27 1898
• Monrovia Daily News Fri Jan 17 1913
• Monterey Daily Cypress Fri Aug 26 1910
• Oakland Tribune Wed May 6 1931
• Saskatoon Daily Star Wed Jul 5 1922
• Star Tribune Fri Dec 1 1893
• The Bessemer Herald Sat Feb 17 1912
• The Daily Republican Fri Jul 26 1918
• The Daily Telegram Sat Nov 8 1919
• The Decatur Herald Thu Feb 1 1923
• The Evening Herald Mon Sep 30 1912
• The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Thu Feb 7 1895
• The Honolulu Advertiser Thu Jan 7 1892
• The Morning Astorian Sun Apr 19 1896
• The Newcastle Weekly Courant Sat Jan 4 1896
• The Ottawa Citizen Fri Aug 2 1901
• The Ottawa Journal Mon Oct 24 1898
• The Ottawa Journal Sat Dec 9 1899
• The Ottawa Journal Sat Jan 26 1924
• The Pomona Progress Sat Jul 15 1916
• The Record Thu Aug 18 1927
• The Standard Union Sat Jun 3 1899
• The Winnipeg Tribune Thu Sep 13 1928
• The Winnipeg Tribune Wed Sep 6 1922
• Times Herald Fri May 20 1910
• Wilkes Barre Semi Weekly Record Tue Aug 8 1899
• Wilkes Barre Times Leader The Evening News Fri May 22 1908

Websites

• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/The_Museum_of_Fortune_Telling_Tea_Cups_and_Saucers
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fortune-telling-tea-cups
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tea-room-police-raids-new-york-psychics-fortune-telling
• https://blog.etsy.com/en/short-stories-aynsley-nelros-cup-of-fortune/
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Fortune_Telling_Postcards_by_Fred_C._Lounsbury
• https://www.sipsby.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-tea-leaf-reading
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography
• Genevieve Wimsatt’s cup: https://www.etsy.com/listing/504597242/genevieve-wimsatt-chinese-fortune?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Genevieve_B._Wimsatt
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Chinese_Fortune-Telling_Teacup
• https://patents.google.com/patent/US1729235A/en
• https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-1931-chinese-fortune-telling-1863286616
• 1920 patent for fortune telling cup: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1342223A/en?q=fortune+telling+cup&oq=fortune+telling+cup&sort=old
  Patent for disposable fortune telling cup, 2007:
• https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2007030981A/en?q=fortune+telling+cup&oq=fortune+telling+cup
• Combination scale and fortune-telling machine patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1774622A/en?q=fortune+telling+cup&oq=fortune+telling+cup&sort=old&page=1
• Fortune telling game patent 1935: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2008357A/en?q=fortune+telling+cup&oq=fortune+telling+cup&sort=old&page=1
• https://www.grimoire.org/teacup/
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Cup_of_Fortune_(1964)_Red_Rose
• Cup of Destiny: https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/the-cup-of-destiny-book-teacup-set?
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Zancigs_Cup_of_Destiny
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Taltos_Fortune_Telling_Cup_(1975)_Jon_Anton
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Taltos_Fortune_Telling_Cup_(1980)_Royal_Kendal
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Cup_of_Destiny_(2001)_Jane_Lyle_/_Barnes_and_Noble
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Courtney_Locke
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Aynsley_Cup_of_Knowledge_Art_Nouveau_Roses_Small
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Category:Cartomancy_Cups_and_Saucers
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Category:Cup_of_Knowledge_(2)_Aynsley
• https://rogueandwolf.com/products/ouija-mug
• https://us.killstar.com/products/zodiac-cup-saucer
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Killstar_Zodiac
• https://us.killstar.com/products/cosmic-tea-cup-saucer
• http://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Killstar_Cosmic
• https://www.etsy.com/search?q=fortune%20telling%20cup%20vintage
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/1004265916/antique-aynsley-nelros-cup-of-knowledge?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=fortune+telling+cup+vintage&ref=sr_gallery-1-22&organic_search_click=1&frs=1
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/886884943/vintage-fortune-telling-cup-and-saucer?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=fortune+telling+cup+vintage&ref=sr_gallery-1-25&organic_search_click=1&sca=1
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/601068536/vintage-fortune-telling-cup-saucer-tarot?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=fortune+telling+cup+vintage&ref=sr_gallery-1-24&organic_search_click=1&sca=1
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/574694054/vintage-fortune-telling-cup-saucer?ref=shop_home_recs_2
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/611875919/vintage-royal-kendall-fortune-telling?ref=shop_home_recs_3
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/627658306/vintage-jon-anton-fortune-telling-cup?ref=shop_home_recs_4&sca=1
• https://www.misshavishamscuriosities.com/store/p497/Vintage_Rosebud_Fortune_Cup_and_Saucer.html#/
• https://www.etsy.com/listing/905492926/rare-authentic-aynsley-1920s-the-nelros?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=fortune+telling+cup+vintage&ref=sr_gallery-1-49&organic_search_click=1&frs=1&cns=1

Don’t miss past episodes:

• Planchette and Automatic Writing (Ouija Boards Part 1)
• Helen Peters and Ouida / Invention (Ouija Boards Part 2)
• William Fuld (Ouija Boards Part 3)

A look at the caladrius, a fancy legendary bird that could supposedly diagnose and heal illnesses. Plus weird info about medieval bestiaries, and more.

Highlights include:
• A weird supposed cure for blindness
• A visit to the Cloisters
• A video game that makes you feel like a wizard
• A bit of unicorn lore

Other stuff I mentioned:
The Last Unicorn youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57VN_b9FRM
Atlas of the Mysterious in North America by Rosemary Ellen Guiley: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1460616.Atlas_of_the_Mysterious_in_North_America
Waltz of the Wizard: https://www.aldin.io/waltzofthewizard/

Sources consulted RE: the Caladrius

Websites

• https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/fantastic-beasts-of-the-middle-ages/xQKCn9wmjCVVJg
• https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms24/f57r
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caladrius
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Bestiary
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/druce1912/druce%20-%20caladrius%20and%20its%20legend.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/allen1887/allen%20-%20medieval%20bestiaries.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/collins1913/collins1913.htm
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/collins1913/symbolism%20of%20animals%20and%20birds%20-%20collins.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/collins1940/collins%20-%20some%2012th%20century%20animal%20carvings%20and%20their%20sources%20in%20the%20bestiaries.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/douglas1928/douglas%20-%20birds%20and%20beasts%20of%20the%20greek%20anthology.pdfhttp://bestiary.ca/etexts/druce1912/druce1912.htm
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast143.htm
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/druce1912/druce%20-%20caladrius%20and%20its%20legend.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/evans1896/evans1896.htm
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/james1931/james%20-%20bestiary%20-%20eton.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/james1932/james1932.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadrius
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/druce1912/druce%20-%20caladrius%20and%20its%20legend.pdf
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery143.htm#
• http://bestiary.ca/etexts/allen1887/allen%20-%20medieval%20bestiaries.pdf

Don’t miss past episodes:

• Weird Medieval Creatures

A look at some weird medieval creatures from legend and lore. Plus some stories about some recent cemetery visits in Queens, New York, including Houdini’s grave.

Highlights include:
• An ancient, impenetrable European forest
• A magical glowing bird
• A dragon with a rooster’s head

Sources consulted RE: Weird Medieval Creatures

Websites

• https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/fantastic-beasts-of-the-middle-ages/xQKCn9wmjCVVJg
• https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms24/f57r
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caladrius
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast270.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_books_of_hours
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hours,_Morgan_MS_493
  http://bestiary.ca/prisources/psdetail964.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seps_(legendary_creature)
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast271.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scitalis
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast552.htm
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast417.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotoplanes
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast532.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerasteshttp://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast422.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeneis
• https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D41
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remora#Mythologyhttp://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast539.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercinia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercynian_Forest
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
• http://bestiary.ca/articles/anne_walshe/index.html
• https://internetpoem.com/thomas-moore/a-dream-of-antiquity-poem/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moore
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast541.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumon_(medieval_zoology)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolkless_egg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatrice
• http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast265.htm

Don’t miss past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
• The New York Crystal Palace (Part 1)

The Moore-Jackson Cemetery, a colonial-era cemetery sits in a quiet residential part of Woodside, Queens, in New York City.

Forgotten for years, and even used as a dump for construction materials and other detritus, the Moore-Jackson Cemetery recently been transformed into a beautiful community garden. Here’s the story behind the cemetery and the people buried there.

Highlights include:
• Loyalists living in Revolutionary War-era Queens, NY
• The city trying to illegally seize the cemetery at the behest of a developer
• A hot-potato cemetery

Check out the Moore-Jackson Cemetery/Garden’s website for more info and historical articles: https://www.moorejacksonnyc.org/

Pictures of the Moore-Jackson Cemetery

Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Spring 2020

Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Spring 2020

Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Spring 2020

Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Spring 2020

Moore-Jackson Cemetery in Spring 2020

From the March 18, 1997, Landmark Preservation Commission report on Moore-Jackson Cemetery

From the March 18, 1997, Landmark Preservation Commission report on Moore-Jackson Cemetery

From the March 18, 1997, Landmark Preservation Commission report on Moore-Jackson Cemetery

From the March 18, 1997, Landmark Preservation Commission report on Moore-Jackson Cemetery

Sources consulted RE: the Moore-Jackson Cemetery

Books

• “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries by Carolee Inskeep
• Munsell’s History of Queens County, New York, 1882
• The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York
  by James Riker, 1852
• History of Long Island City, New York. by J. SKelsey; Long Island Star Publishing Company, 1896
• Queens Borough, New York City, 1910-1920 by Chamber of Commerce, 1920

Websites

• https://www.moorejacksonnyc.org/
• Landmark report:
  http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1997Moore-JacksonCemetry.pdf
• Archaeological report about Maspeth from 1991: http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/584.pdf
• https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/moore-homestead-playground
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2017/08/maspeth-1852/
• https://archive.org/details/queensboroughnew00chamrich/page/n3/mode/2up
• https://www.shinnecocknation.com/shinnecock/
• The archeological history of New York by Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955: https://archive.org/details/archeologicalhis02parkrich/page/476/mode/2up
• General archaeological report page: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/about/archaeology.page
• “A Seventeenth-Century Fireplace at Maspeth, Long Island” Solecki: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24531641?seq=1
• https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/17/nyregion/neighborhood-report-astoria-an-aging-custodian-worries-about-a-historic-cemetery.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Clarke_Moore
• https://boulevardgardens.nyc/history
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Moore_(bishop)
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2008/12/moore-jackson-cemetery/
• https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/moore-homestead-playground/history
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/03/state-historical-markers-in-new-york-city-part-2/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2020/09/hellgate-ferry-road-part-2/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2018/05/astoria-sweep/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2018/02/woodside-1852/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2018/07/maspeth-elmhurst-1852/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/06/the-old-shell-road-elmhurst/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/03/state-historical-markers-in-new-york-city-part-2/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2010/08/woodside-tour/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2009/01/broadway-in-queens-part-2/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/1999/01/hidden-cemeteries-dead-reckoning/
• https://sites.google.com/view/moorejacksoncemetery/home?authuser=0
• https://queenshistoricalsociety.org/moore-jackson-cemetery/
• https://sites.google.com/view/moorejacksoncemetery/home?authuser=0
• https://sites.google.com/view/moorejacksoncemetery/cemetery/historical-timeline?authuser=0
• https://sites.google.com/view/moorejacksoncemetery/cemetery/documentspublications?authuser=0#h.p_zkfUAuCmWSYE
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore-Jackson_Cemetery
• https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20171011/woodside/moore-jackson-cemetery-cleanup-queens-historical-society/
• https://www.scoutingny.com/the-cemetery-on-the-old-farm-in-queens/
• https://history.pmlib.org/longislandhistory/longislandindianhistory
• https://www.newsday.com/long-island/long-island-our-story-1.27833558

Don’t miss past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
• The New York Crystal Palace (Part 1)

A look at the remarkable Riker Home and Cemetery, or the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery, which one woman’s dream and grit turned into a beautiful site with a secret garden.

Highlights include:
• A unique second date
• A collection of vintage ventriloquist dummies
• Fun historic home renovation details

Note: There’s discussion of chattel slavery and being held captive against one’s will near the end of this episode.

Pictures of the Riker Home and Cemetery

Sources consulted RE: the Riker Home and Cemetery

Books

• The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries by Carolee Inskeep
• Munsell’s History of Queens County, New York, 1882
• The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York
  by James Riker, 1852
• History of Long Island City, New York. by J. SKelsey; Long Island Star Publishing Company, 1896
• Queens Borough, New York City, 1910-1920 by Chamber of Commerce, 1920

Websites

• Untapped Cities article: https://untappedcities.com/2011/12/22/the-last-riker-house/
• https://www.yelp.com/biz/lent-riker-smith-homestead-east-elmhurst
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent_Homestead_and_Cemetery
• https://www.rikerhome.com/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2006/09/lent-riker-smith-mansion/
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/rispan2.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/buono.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/qnsboro2.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island_Bridgehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_court_system_delayshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island
• https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1884?amount=180000
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook001.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook002.htmlhttp://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook004.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.htmlhttp://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook006.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook007.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook009.htmlhttp://genealogytrails.com/ny/queens/cem_rikers.html
• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ryker2/ryker_coatofarms.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11farmhouse.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/li-press-1968_large.htm
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/lisj-1941_large.htm
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/1930s.htm
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/sunday-news-1942_large.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/16/realestate/postings-little-paradise.html
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/queens_courier_mds_05-25-06.pdf
• https://www.thirteen.org/queens/map.html
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/queens_courier_mds_06-15-06.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11farmhouse.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/ny-daily-news-11-7-06.htm

Don’t miss past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
• The New York Crystal Palace (Part 1)

A look at the Lent-Riker-Smith Cemetery, a hidden family graveyard tucked away behind one of the oldest homes in New York City, which is still a private residence.

This is part 1 of the history of the little-known Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead and Cemetery. This episode focuses on the history of nearby Riker’s Island, as well as the Riker family, and sets the scene for next week’s deep dive into the home and cemetery’s more recent history, and what they’re like now.

Highlights include:
• Spontaneously combusting garbage
• Gatsby’s Valley of Ashes
• A grim modern-day penal colony
• Exploring an off-the-beaten-path neighborhood

Links mentioned in the episode:

Donate to the Emergency Release Fund to get high-risk people out of Rikers

Tiffany Cabán for council district 22 (Astoria): https://www.cabanforqueens.com/

The Feminine Macabre Volume 1: https://spookeats.com/femininemacabre/ 

Pictures of Lent-Riker-Smith Cemetery

Sources consulted RE: Lent-Riker-Smith Cemetery

Books

• The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian’s Guide to New York City Cemeteries by Carolee Inskeep
• Munsell’s History of Queens County, New York, 1882
• The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York
  by James Riker, 1852
• History of Long Island City, New York. by J. SKelsey; Long Island Star Publishing Company, 1896
• Queens Borough, New York City, 1910-1920 by Chamber of Commerce, 1920

Websites

• https://www.yelp.com/biz/lent-riker-smith-homestead-east-elmhurst
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent_Homestead_and_Cemetery
• https://www.rikerhome.com/
• https://forgotten-ny.com/2006/09/lent-riker-smith-mansion/
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/rispan2.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/buono.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/qnsboro2.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island_Bridgehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_court_system_delayshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island
• https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1884?amount=180000
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook001.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook002.htmlhttp://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook004.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook005.htmlhttp://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook006.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook007.html
• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/cw_units/html/rikersbook009.htmlhttp://genealogytrails.com/ny/queens/cem_rikers.html
• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ryker2/ryker_coatofarms.htmhttps://untappedcities.com/2011/12/22/the-last-riker-house/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11farmhouse.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/li-press-1968_large.htm
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/lisj-1941_large.htm
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/1930s.htm
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/sunday-news-1942_large.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/16/realestate/postings-little-paradise.html
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/queens_courier_mds_05-25-06.pdfhttps://www.thirteen.org/queens/map.html
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/queens_courier_mds_06-15-06.htm
• https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11farmhouse.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• https://www.rikerhome.com/press/ny-daily-news-11-7-06.htm

Don’t miss past episodes:

• The Renwick Ruin:
  • The Smallpox Hospital, aka Renwick Ruin, on Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 1
  • The Renwick Ruin and Charity Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC – Part 2
• Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel: 
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 1
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 2
  • Investigating the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Part 3, and the Salem Marine Society
• The Haunted Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
• Haunted Asheville, North Carolina
• New York City Potter’s Fields
• Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 1)
• Archbishop John Hughes, aka Dagger John: Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York (Part 2)
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 1
• The Haunted Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas: Part 2
• A Victorian Lunatic’s Fort: Fort Maxey, Blackwell’s Island, NYC
• The Roosevelt Island Lighthouse, or The Blackwell Island Light, NYC
• The General Slocum Disaster, Hell Gate, New York City
• The Haunted Hell Gate, New York City
• Haunted St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
• The New York Crystal Palace (Part 1)