For Hal: if you like this ‘Second’ there is a ‘Third’ on 21st street

I am a NYC licensed sightseeing guide. I am ashamed to tell you I was unaware of the existence of the Second Cemetery, having concentrated for years in my Chinatown tours on the First one, near Kimlau Square in Chinatown. I was on a fam ( familiarization ) tour yesterday. My guide stopped there and my jaw dropped. I got great photos thru the bars ( the cemetery is locked ) so my rating of facilities and service is mythical and based on how good the visual appeal is; the place is reminiscent, at least to me, of the family graves in the South in your backyard on say, Okrakoke Is.It is a nice shady spot in the afternoon, with one large tree, a miniature obelisk that is the baby brother of Audubons up at the Trinity Graveyard site in Harlem at the Church of the Intercession. It has less than a dozen headstones in it, as far as I could see. I will do further research on who is buried there for my walking tours.

Ladino Family Tree