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Encyclopedia > Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery is located in Woodside, Queens County, New York, and is a very popular eternal dwelling place for mobsters and politicians.


Among those buried there are:

  • Vito Bonventre (1875 - 1930), mobster
  • Anthony Carfano (1898 - 1959), mobster ("Little Augie Pisano")
  • Lorenzo da Ponte (1749 - 1838), opera librettist
  • Tess Gardella (1897 - 1950), actress who played "Aunt Jemima"
  • Tex Guinan (1884- 1933), actress and saloon-keeper
  • Patsy Kelly (1910 - 1981), actress
  • Thomas Luchese (1899 - 1967), mobster
  • Alfred E. Smith (1873 - 1944), Governor of New York State and Presidential candidate
  • Robert Ferdinand Wagner (1877 - 1953), US Senator from New York State
  • Robert Wagner, Jr. (1910 - 1991), Mayor of New York City
  • Robert Wagner III (1944 - 1993), president of the New York City Board of Education, son of Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr., and grandson of Governor Robert Wagner.



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