La Fe Restaurant was at 4th Avenue and 36th Street in Sunset Park for many years. It had one of those great hand-painted signs you just don't see many of anymore, though a newer awning had been added below it (reference photo taken in 2007). I'm not sure when it closed. It's in a 2019 street view with the hand-painted sign unfortunately covered up; by 2021 it was replaced by a deli. In 2022 it's a different deli. 

The cemetery Sara walks by is Green-Wood, which has really undergone a transformation from feeling nearly off-limits to welcoming. The signs about the canine patrol were still there (faded and covered in graffiti) in 2021 though it looks like they've now been removed. I've seen other cemeteries with signage announcing guard dogs--I've yet to see one at a cemetery though. Were they ever there, or was the signage just a hopeful deterrent? There's a pretty interesting article about the cemetery and its long-time president from July, 2025, which notes:

When Mr. Moylan took over Green-Wood in 1986, the cemetery was closed to tourists or people drawn to the open space. Visitors had to tell guards at the gate which grave they intended to visit.

I lived in this neighborhood several years before the story in the comic takes place, and the gates were open to visitors (often for less hours than posted) but hardly anyone was actually visiting. I'd go for walks and only see the occasional person doing maintenance; there were large signs saying not to take photos (of course I took photos). Now, twenty-odd years later, the cemetery hosts programs (including concerts in catacombs), is known for its habitat restoration, has become a birding destination, and a place to find rare fungi.

This all sounds great, but maybe choose your clothing carefully if you decide to visit:

Still, the guards occasionally refuse to let some visitors enter. “Goths,” Mr. Moylan said. “We have to say, ‘No, you can’t come in looking like that.’”

I'd love to know if this is true--how goth is too goth? I've visited in recent years and with the volume and variety of people there it just doesn't seem like they could be singling out anyone by how they're dressed. There's a note in the rules and regulations requiring "appropriate attire" which does not include "costumes" or "theatrical makeup" (this feels pretty open to interpretation). Who's telling goths to stay out of a cemetery anyway? I had a copy of Propaganda magazine in the 1990s with an article about Green-wood titled (in reference to the Thomas Wolfe short story) Only the Dead Know Brooklyn that if I remember correctly featured photos of gothy models and of a bunch of the mausoleums. I'm guessing Mr. Moylan would not have approved.

There are scans of some issues of Propaganda on Flickr posted by someone who was a regular model in it. It's also on the Internet Archive. Unfortunately I couldn't find the Green-wood article in either.

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