It was in Queens, just over the county line from Cypress Hills. When the City of Brooklyn was consolidated into New York City in 1898, parts of Queens County became parts of Brooklyn.

The woman went to visit 66-year-old Jacqueline Delyons and her 91-year-old father, Roosevelt Simmons, at their place in Cypress Hills on Sunday afternoon.

The first building lots had been sold in 1835, and the federal Cypress Hills Cemetery was built in 1848. Some say the neighborhood takes its name from the cemetery, but it is more likely that both ...