In the late 1870s, a seaside resort and amusement park was making a name for itself in Queens, on the site of what is now LaGuardia Airport.
Watch an exclusive clip of new episode of the PBS documentary series Secrets of the Dead, with a NYC based mystery, The Woman in the Iron Coffin premiering tonight.
We've only seen this in one place in NYC in all our explorations – in-ground garbage cans to hide household waste found on the Astoria/East Elmhurst waterfront.