A late elderly Brooklyn couple who voluntarily cared for an abandoned city-owned World War I memorial in a once-overgrown patch of park were honored Tuesday in a touching Veteran’s Day ceremony.
Williamsburg resident Theresa “Tish” Cianciotta and her World War II veteran husband Guido were celebrated as the loving longtime keepers of Memorial Gore, a set-up on a tiny patch of grass where 83 locals who died in the Great War are remembered.
The couple began caring for the small landmark in the 1980s, local community-board member Philip Caponegro told The Post.
“We want to keep their memory alive,” Caponegro, 71, told a crowd of roughly two dozen locals at the event.
After the couple died in their 90s in 2021 and 2023, respectively, the park — located at the busy intersection of Bushwic

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