Because it's a scan of a copy of an image in a book taken from a newspaper, it's a bit hard to see, but what you're looking at is one of the Amuso brothers pointing out an unmarked grave that he discovered during the destruction of the cemetery's original wall in 1960. The grave (I believe) has at this point been cemented into place to protect it during the reconstruction of the wall.
I had never seen this image before, and was surprised when I found it in Patrick Raftery's The Cemeteries of Westchester County. It gives somewhat of a better idea of where the grave was.
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