Beloved Son

Progress continues apace in cleaning up the monument to neglect that is Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park.

Thanks to CAJAC (Community Association for Jewish At-Risk Cemeteries), new landscapers have been hired, and every weekend volunteers are out there. Usually it’s one or two “regulars”, but sometimes CAJAC is able to rustle up Boy Scout troops, familes of people interred there, or other small groups.

When I first went out there this past summer, the task seemed Sisyphean, it now seems merely Herculean. The key is persistence.

Here is a pic of stuff we’ve chopped down, and that is awaiting the chipper. The mulch will be spread along the cemetery paths.

From Bayside Cemetery

Here are some graves that we’ve cleared of heavy foliage (which you can still see in the background).

From Bayside Cemetery