Vito Locascio Field

This enclosed parcel within Vito Locascio Field is part of the historic Southside Burial Ground located across the street. The cemetery, which dates to 1681, was bisected by the extension of 149th Avenue in the 1950s. Among those buried here are Civil War veterans Charles Rooney, Infantry, 97th Regiment, New York State Volunteers and Charles Munroe, U.S. Navy. Munroe shares his tombstone with his brother Leander, who died while serving in the U.S. Army and was buried at Fort Omaha in Nebraska. In 1982, the brothers’ tombstone was found a short distance from the cemetery in a private residence’s yard. It was ultimately returned to Southside Burial Ground and erected in the main section of the cemetery.