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Six years ago, when state officials were confronting a morass of problems at Cypress Hills Cemetery, where about 1,000 corpses were buried in a 40-foot-high mound of construction debris, one of their first steps was to recommend a seasoned cemetery administrator to oversee the graveyard along the Brooklyn-Queens border.
Graves, Rubble and a Bankruptcy Claim
By JOSEPH P. FRIED
Published: October 8, 2000
Facing potentially costly suits over a crumbling burial hill built on demolition debris, Cypress Hills Cemetery, the huge graveyard on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, has filed a bankruptcy petition.
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