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Description: Title: Permanent New Yorkers A Biographical Guide To The Cemeteries of New York Author: Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall Publisher: Chelsea Green (1987) Description:Excellent descriptions and guide to the cemeteries of New York City. Many pages devoted to Woodlawn Cemetery and Green-Wood Cemetery. Lots of photographs and great stories about people - both famous and unknown. From the flap- Permanent New Yorkers brings a multitude of prominent New Yorkers back to life. In Manhattan you can visit New Amsterdam’s first no-nonsense governor, Peter Stuyvesant, in St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery; the brilliant and querulous Alexander Hamilton in Trinity Churchyard off Wall Street; John James Audubon in Trinity Cemetery in Harlem; and John Lennon’s garden memorial, Strawberry Fields at Central Park West and 72nd Street. On the curving hilly contours of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery—where once all New Yorkers of substance hoped to be buried and which inspired the creation of Central Park— you can rediscover the likes of Boss Tweed, Lola Montez, Horace Greeley, Louis Tiffany, and Joey Gallo. In the Bronx’s equally impressive Woodlawn, you can encounter robber barons and millionaires as well as politicians, actors, artists, writers, and musicians, including Herman Melville, Fiorello La Guardia, George M. Cohan, and Duke Ellington. Or visit the gravesites of Typhoid Mary and Billie Holiday in St. Raymond's. In Queens you may find Harry Houdini, or pay tribute to Scott Joplin, Louie Armstrong, Edward G. Robinson, Mae West—and many others. Wherever great New Yorkers rest, the authors stop and pause, paying them homage in lively and entertaining prose, remembering their lives with humor, irony, and poignancy. The authors travel to Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, and to Westchester and Rockland counties, where movie stars (such as Judy Garland, Joan Crawford), athletes (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig), choreographers (George Balanchine), Broadway song-writers (Jerome Kern, Billy Rose), painters (Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack), composers (Sergei Rachmaninoff, Béla Bartok), and jazz musicians (Tommy Dorsey, Thelonius Monk) abound. The monuments and stories of obscure New Yorkers are often just as fascinating as those of the famous, and the authors make note of many such “unknowns.” New York’s best cemeteries are vastly underrated art galleries—containing works by such masters as Augustus Saint Gaudens and Samuel Chester French-—that are usually located in beautiful and protected settings. 12 maps, 12 black & white photos, over 350 biographies, index. Contents MANHATTAN 1 Trinity Churchyard 2 Trinity Cemetery 3 St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery 4 Grant’s Tomb 5 Quick Trips Sephardic Cemeteries, St. Paul’s Chapel, Marble Cemeteries, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Strawberry Fields BROOKLYN 6 Green-Wood Early Inhabitants 7 Green-Wood Fascinating People 8 Green-Wood Beautiful Monuments 9 Holy Cross 10) Quick Trips Quaker Cemetery, Salem Fields BRONX 11 Woodlawn Robber Barons and Millionaires 12 Woodlawn North Tour 13 Woodlawn South Tour 14 St. Raymond's 15 Quick Trips Potter’s Field, St. Ann’s QUEENS 16 Flushing 17 Cypress Hills Area Cypress Hills, Machpelah, Mt. Neboh, Beth El, Shearith Israel, Union Field, Mt. Lebanon 18 Quick Trips St. John’s, St. Michael’s, Mt. Olivet, Mt. Zion, Calvary, Belmont Park Race Track LONG ISLAND I9 Youngs Memorial, Fort Hill, and Roslyn 20 East Marion and St. James 21 Oakland 22 South End Burying Ground and Green River 23 Quick Trips Memorial Cemetery of St. John’s, Pinelawn, Sacred Heart WESTCHESTER 24 Sleepy Hollow 25 Ferncliff Mausoleum 26 Ferncliff Cemetery 27 Kensico 28 Gate of Heaven and Westchester Hills 29 Quick Trips Hartsdale Canine Cemetery, Temple Israel ROCKLAND 30 Oak Hill Sources Index Condition: Book is very good plus. Tiny chip to back cover near bottom. See all photos. Details: firm wraps - 405 pages, approx. 5" x 9 1/2" 1987 First Printing Chelsea Green Publishing Terms (payment, shipping, tax, returns, feedback, etc.) Please read before buying U.S. bidders only Payment Please pay within 48 hours of winning. eBay managed payments Shipping Shipping will be $7.25 and will be shipped USPS media mail with tracking. We may upgrade your package at our discretion to USPS Ground Advantage. 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