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Woodlawn Cemetery

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Lonely Planet review for Woodlawn Cemetery

As elegant as Brooklyn’s Green-Wood is this 400-acre cemetery, the top resting place in the Bronx. It dates from the Civil War (1863) and actually has more big names than Green-Wood – and it is a contest – among its 300,000 headstones, including Herman Melville and jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Duke Ellington. Ask at the front for a photo pass if you want to snap pictures.