The North Bronx is the topmost fringe
of New York City, and if anyone actually makes it up here it's to see
the luminary-filled Woodlawn Cemetery.
Accessible from Jerome Avenue
at Bainbridge (last stop, Woodlawn, on the #4), this is a prime example
of how New Yorkers in the 1850s took in the air. For many years,
Woodlawn has been a celebrity cemetery, and boasts a number of tombs and
mausoleum that are memorable mainly for their garishness.
It's a huge place, but there are some
monuments that stand out: F.W. Woolworth has himself an Egyptian palace
guarded by sphinxes, while Jay Gould, not most people's favorite
businessman when he was alive, takes it easy in a Greek-style temple.
Pick up a guide from the office at the entrance to locate the many
larger-than-life individuals buried here: they include Herman Melville,
Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses, Miles
Davis, and Duke Ellington, among others.
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