Skip to Content Protecting graves in New York City has never been easy. January 18, 2026 Daniel Drake St. Michael's Cemetery, East Elmhurst, Queens, New York, January 14, 2026 At St. Michael’s, small graves sit in view of Home Depot. The triangular cemetery rests in the middle of a highway interchange, bounded on all three sides by humming roads that cordon its hills off from a sunbaked world of outlet stores and cheap motels.