The teary-eyed angel of a Brooklyn cemetery

This angel looks to be weeping or wiping away a tear as she (he?) guards a grave at the Evergreens Cemetery on the Brooklyn-Queens border.

More angels just like this one stand by tombstones all over this necropolis of about half a million, which includes the graves of many German immigrants who settled in nearby Bushwick in the 19th century after the cemetery was founded in 1849.

It’s a lovely place to visit on a warm summer day.

Tags: Brooklyn cemetery, Brooklyn necropolis, Bushwick Brooklyn, cemetery angels, Evergreens Cemetery, New York grave, Sad Cemetery Angels, tombstones of New York City

This entry was posted on June 28, 2012 at 5:18 am and is filed under Brooklyn, Cemeteries, Urban beauty. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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