Staten Island Graveyard
Benjamin Prine was buried in an African American cemetery in 1900. Fifty years later, he was buried again when the cemetery was paved over for a shopping mall.
Heather Quinlan
Heather Quinlan is a writer and filmmaker whose films include "O Brooklyn! My Brooklyn!" and "If These Knishes Could Talk," a feature-length documentary about the New York accent. Her book "Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to COVID-19," was published in 2020 and won the American Library Association’s 2021 Outstanding Reference Source award. Heather is a native New Yorker and has lived in all five boroughs, though now calls New Jersey home with her husband, writer Adam McGovern. Learn more about Heather's work at heathercue.com.