WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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Cemetery with a free map at the entrance, featuring a wide variety of trees in the Bronx.
It's New York's Père Lachaise. Bat Masterson, the sheriff who cleaned up Dodge City before becoming a New York pressman, is buried here. And many others with him: gamblers, sportsmen, inveterate fans of theater premieres, artists' agents. There's Herman Melville, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Bert Williams, who was the first to win a million dollars in vaudeville, is there, but his pals Bat Masterson and Damon Runyon had to pass the hat to get him buried. Other residents for eternity include Admiral Farragut, merchant F.-W. Woolworth, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Joseph Pulitzer, Alexander Archipenko (who sculpted his own cubist head), Communist Congressman Vito Marcantonio, bacteriologist Hideyo Nohuchi, other mayors and, among four Confederate generals, Archibald Gracie, whose family home Gracie Mansion is now the residence of the city's mayors. A free map awaits you at the entrance. The easiest way to get there is to go to the last stop on line 4. The subway leaves the tunnel at Yankee Stadium, allowing you to fly over the Bronx. The route is dangerous for tourists at night, but fine during the day. The cemetery has a greater variety of trees than the city's two botanical gardens. During the Civil War, Woodlawn served as a fortification to support Washington's retreat from the northern Bronx River Valley to White Plains.
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