Blissville is a tiny appendage of Sunnyside, cut off by the L.I.E., with a heavily industrial and downtrodden appearance. Some factories blend with a bunch of auto shops, tire shops and a scattering of depressing houses with cheap siding and clapboard facades. What really sets the tone are the boundaries, which are more than psychological: the freeway, the hyper-industrial Newtown Creek and, the neighborhood's one asset, Calvary Cemetery.
The population is small and mostly Hispanic, with a number of recent immigrants from Central and South America.
Calvary Cemetery is another world. A beautiful gem dating from the mid-19th century, it's a stately Catholic cemetery housing mostly Italian, Polish and Irish New Yorkers.
Maybe a little pretentious and overdone, as well.
The population is small and mostly Hispanic, with a number of recent immigrants from Central and South America. 
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