Guy Lombardo

What a way to end the year. A toast to Lilliebell and Guy Lombardo. Happy New Year everyone.

Count Basie

Count  Basie and Catherine Basie from Pinelawn. In the Mausoleum which is across the street. If you have the coordinates you can find this. Otherwise, good luck.

Bob Sheppard

Long time Yankee Stadium announcer. From Long Island National Cemetery. Now THAT is an organized spot. Military.

Coltrane

John and Alice Coltrane. From Pinelawn Memorial Park (their map is a joke). Beautiful stone in the winter rain.

Robert Moses

Robert Moses and Mary Moses. From Woodlawn. One of my first mausoleum gets, but from the map I orginally thought  he was in a plot.

Ulysses Grant

18th President. With Julia Grant. The largest mausoleum in North America. Uptown NYC in Riverside Park. Well worth a visit if you are touristing or if you are not.

Jam Master Jay

Jason William Mizell. Run-D.M.C. Murdered at age 37 in a recording studio in Queens. Buried in Ferncliff. A little hard to find because they have overlayed their identification numbers.

Clement Moore

Clement Moore and Company

Hey Santa Claus. Well identified on the Trinity map but you have to go down a steep hill and look backwards to see it.

Bat Masterson

     From Woodlawn. Pretty well marked on their map. A little bit more in the interior of the section

Basil Rathbone

From Ferncliff. Middle top above the flash. This is in the Shrine of Memories mausolem which has no location indicators of any sort. Spot would have been nearly impossible to find if I hadn't stumbled into someone who works there on my third attempt.

This crypt is well over twelve feet in the air and this is the best shot I could get. Maybe someday I'll visit with a digital camera instead of my cell phone.

Soupy Sales

From Kensico. In the Friars Club section.

Robert Fulton

From Trinity Church (Broadway and Wall)

Sergei Rachmaninoff

From Kensico. Lovely spot. Very easy to locate. Sergei, his wife and one of his daughters.

Sal Mineo

From Gate of Heaven. Took me three times to find Sal and Michael's grave. I was looking for a headstone and obviously this is a ground marker. Unfortunately, it needs some washing. Maybe a good rain will take care of that. Sal was stabbed to death in 1976. Too soon gone.

Toots Shor

From Ferncliff. Their numbering is a little hard to read. Nicely situated near Paul Robeson. Quite pretty actually.

Augustus Julliard

From Woodlawn. Hard to miss.

Not the school, the tomb. But it is big enough to hold classes in. You can get some perspective on its size by checking the height of the door. Enormous.

Billy Martin

Alfred Mauel Martin

From Gate of Heaven. Right where they spotted it on the map. Very horizontal tombstone.

"I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform but I was the proudest."

Duke Ellington

From Woodlawn. Coudln't have been easier to find. At a confluence of roads that also has Lionel Hampton and Miles Davis' final resting places. Don't take the "A" train or you'll be way west of here. Take the 4 train instead.

Jerry Orbach

Jerry and Elaine Orbach

From Trinity Uptown. Good help from their map to get to the building, after that it's scanning the mausoleum walls as usual.These are on the top of a multi floor structure which, for some reason, alternates air conditioning with no ac by floor. I had an associate scanner who will remain unnamed helping me this time so we were more efficient.

Can't believe it's been eight years already for Jerry. May you both rest in peace.

Irving Berlin

God Bless America            Blue Skies            Puttin' on the Ritz     White Christmas

From Woodlawn. Right where the map said it was. Thanks Mr. Berlin for your great songwriting.

Ed Sullivan

Sylvia and Ed Sullivan

From the mausoleums at Ferncliff. I was looking for several sites in the mausoleums and this is the first one I was able to locate. And that was thanks to a worker who pointed me the right way. Not the terrble map Ferncliff distributes.

John James Audubon

From Trinity Cemetery (Uptown). From the map you would think this is somewhere towards the eastern edge of the eastern section. But it is right at the entrance on 155th street. We (my fellow gravehunter Shela was with me) actuall stood next to it to misread the map . Veri impressive work.

Harry Chapin

From Huntington Rural Cemetery. Hard to find (calling there was useless) but at the same time right in front of you. Still getting a rockpile of love.

Tom Carvel

Tom and Agnes Carvel

From Ferncliff. Pretty tricky find. The grave is in the St. Paul section but the section has several different burial patterns. I had to find the right pattern and follow it almost all the way around the section. If you go there it is in a hedgerow on the opposite side from the mausoleum. God bless you both.

Paddy Chayefsky

From Kensico. Took me three tries to find this. Kensico's map is very stylized and it gets you in the vicinity. But without their phone-in tour I never would have found this. If you go there, utilize the phone-in resurces.

This guy won the Academy Award for best screenplay THREE times.My favorite is The Hospital (George C Scott and Diana Rigg, c'mon). RIP Mr. Chayefsky.

Felix Pappalardi

Felix Pappalardi and his mom Elia. Shot by his wife who served two years for criminally negligent homicide (accident). Also known for his record producing capabilities even though the rock musician grind had robbed him of much of his hearing (bass player for Mountain).

From Woodlawn Cemetery. Doesn't appear on their map. His grave is in a section called The Cliffs. It's all the way up at the next to last row from the top of the hill.RIP Felix abd Elia.

Alexander Hamilton

From Trinity Church of New York City (Wall Street). Their graveyard is divided into two lots which flank the church. Hamilton is one of the few monliths. Most of the cemetery has very thin weathered tombstones which are illegible to the human eye. Dollar dollar bill y'all. 

The Dorseys

The Sentimental Gentleman

Jane New Dorsey

From Kensico. Very classy design. The side by side effect is very moving.
Although it is in plain site by the side of the road (with mini staircase) I'll still needed the phone tour to find this. Bravo Dorseys.

Washington Irving

The sole reason for my visit to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Easy to find and well maintained, once you navigate a blind tight turn. Looks out over the Old Church Yard section.

Thelonius Monk & Company

Joan Crawford.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Robert and Marion Merrill. 7th inning stretch.

                                         Robert and Marion Merrill