Yesterday, my group and I went to the Bowery Poetry Cafe to read a book called “Kiki Strike”,  by Kirsten Miller. This book mentioned “underground cities”. We knew there was such things as underground cities but now it was just a matter of fact of finding them. The book inspired us to find underground cities in NYC. The book,”Kiki Strike”, mentioned a underground cemetery called “The Marble Cemetery”. Your probably wondering ” Yea..People are buried underground. What’s  the big deal about being buried underground?” Well in The Marble Cemetery on 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue, you can actually walk through the underground. It’s like a whole little world inside. The cemetery had “underground” tunnels to lead to different tombs. When we saw that the location of the cemetery was close by, we decided we wanted to go check it out because it’s right around the corner !!! Why not go and check it out? We got permission from the Bowery Hotel to go to the back patio that overlooked the back of the cemetery. We all became eager to go check out the actual place so we went around the block to see the entrance of the cemetery. When we showed up at first we couldn’t have access  because only descendants from the buried people could enter the garden. Fortunately, the gardeners let us in because we explained how we were reading a book and became inspired to visit the site. The cemetery gardener was super nice and gave us a tour and explained how the tombs were laid underground. He also explained why the people were buried underground into tunnels because there had been a disease going around that they believed was spread through vapors but the real cause was contaminated water. It was amazing just being in the garden/cemetery because the place was nicely cleaned up and lots of beautiful plants growing everywhere. While we were there, the gardener showed us different types of insects he came into contact on a daily basis. There was beetles, worms, dragon flies, slugs and much more. He also said that at one point there was garden snakes. I’m glad we started reading the book “Kiki Strike” because it inspired us to go explore the city more, there so much we do not know about the city we live in. It was an AMAZiNG experience. We got permission to enter a hotel in which we weren’t even going to stay in AND had access to a restricted to family only underground cemetery. How much better can that get?