State University of New York Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, the Bronx, NY

One of the four propellers from the SS United States, 'the fastest ocean liner ever built' are here on exhibit on the grounds of the State University of New York Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, NY. Another propeller! I once assisted in 1999 the monitoring of a new fence for "The Old Soldiers Cemetery" in the Bronx, next to the Bronx River and near the Delaware/Catskill Aqueduct running under the street a block from the Bronx Zoo, and in it separated from the public, were dead crows which I reported to the Health Dept. when a request for info on West Nile virus "dead birds" sightings was put on public television news. In the words of the renowned former resident poet of the Bronx, New York, Edgar Allan Poe, "Quoth the raven, nevermore!" Some of the stones apparently had been moved and through Parsons, Inc., the few bones in the trench were sent to the Smithsonian for analyses. The cemetery has New York City Landmarks designation, though an "abandoned" congregation with another church built later across the street from it. There are veterans of four wars in the churchyard (War of 1812 through World War I) though I suspect the name "Old Soldiers Cemetery" may be because of the one Union soldier Civil War statue in it next to the brick "winter" vault and not because of the statistical count of burials, though a good reason to landmark it. Al Pacino grew up about six blocks away maybe he knows. When I visited Fort Schuyler, there was a faded marker there that stated here is (now was) the cannon that was in the "Old Soldiers Cemetery" in West Farms. Very strange. I wonder where it is? They put up a new park nearby, Vidalia Park. Google Earth Download SS United States propeller.kmz