Greenwood Cemetery is such a nice place to walk around during quarantine/the pandemic. This is my second time here and this time we had a map so we wouldn't get lost. It was a very warm day for November and after 5 days of watching the election results, we needed a break. We found out Biden won yesterday and was so happy and relieved. So continuing on and trying to go out every weekend, we decided to go to the cemetery. We got there early and drove around until we saw these mausoleums built in a hill. It was such a beautiful scene with the changing colors and peaceful surroundings. Close by is Crescent Water Lake, where people were picnicking and drinking coffee. The famous Niblo Mausoleum who was a theater owner, would have parties there before he died! Carrying on with tradition, the Greenwood Cemetery would throw parties there pre-covid in the evening with the Bindlestiff Family Circus as the entertainment. I would have loved to attend that event! Check out this photo I found below. Photo credits: Maike Schulz, courtesy The Green-Wood Historic Fund Here's the husband's photo: And here's my photo. Such prime real estate location to house your mausoleum-in front of a lake! After walking around the lake we went to visit the Samuel Morse Memorial and the Steinway Mausoleum. Yes, it's the man who invented Morse code (which I wish I knew) and the other man who built pianos. The husband has a Steinway, but it is hibernating in NJ. Next up I wanted to find Basquiat's grave, but the husband found it instead of me! It was hard to find on the map. I have always loved his art and visited so many galleries and museums here in NYC that displayed his works. It is pretty small headstone, but well visited. Azrael, the angel of death is a memorial to Brooklyn mayor Charles Schieren sculpted by Solon H. Borglum. Solon's brother, Gutzon, sculpted the portraits of four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Charles Schieren was buried along with his wife and the headstone reads: “In their lives they were lovely and in their death they were not divided". The husband and I moved on to the Catacombs which Greenwood sometimes hosts concerts! See my photo below and then the one with people enjoying music! In August of 2018 Christina and Michelle Naughton played there; it must have been hot down in the catacombs! The last thing we did was lie down on the grass and closed our eyes due to the hot sun. It was a nice day despite the pandemic and all the other crappy things going on in life. We wanted to visit more monuments but it was getting crowded and we didn't want to be around too many people. Back in the year 2003, when I first moved to NYC, my then boyfriend and I visited Greenwood and got lost! I remember we did see the soda fountain inventor's grave and thought is was amazing. When the husband and I got home I found some Youtube videos on Greenwood and other cemeteries in NYC from Hollywood Graves. They explore graves from all over the world. I found out that Rachmanioff is buried at Kensico Cemetery in NY! I also found out that the composer, Bernard Hermann is buried at Calvary Cemetery in NY. He wrote the themes to Citizen Cane, Vertigo, Psycho (those violins!), Cape Fear, Twilight Zone, and Taxi Driver. Hermann also wrote that whistling song from Kill Bill and that was originally from the movie Twisted Nerve! But my favorite music score is from The Day the Earth Stood Still which features the theremin!
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