Your guide to the cemeteries of NYC
Greetings, fellow gravewalkers. This is your guide to visiting the cemeteries of New York City: how to reach them, when to go, and what not to miss. Use the drop-down menu or check out a few of my favorites below.
Woodlawn Cemetery is stunning, impressive, and absolutely unmissable. If you're willing to head uptown far beyond the usual NYC tourist sites, the final resting place of Herman Melville, Louis Armstrong, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and so many more is beckoning.
Trinity Church Wall Street is small but beautiful--and the final resting place of everyone's favorite bastard orphan son of a whore. Highly historic and home to the oldest known gravestone in NYC, it's steps from Wall Street, Federal Hall, and Battery Park, making it the perfect cemetery to visit if you're only in the city for a hot minute.
My personal favorite cemetery, though it's not the most famous or the most impressive, is Trinity Church and Mausoleum in Harlem (not to be confused with the downtown Trinity mentioned above). It's just the right blend of lovely and spooky, and has a lot of interesting details, plus a few famous residents.
