Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. It was said that it was the "ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood".
Notables buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York:
Albert Anastasia[?], (1903 - 1957) mobster, "Lord High Executioner" for "Murder Inc."
James Kirke Paulding[?] - US Secretary of the Navy under Martin Van Buren; thought to be "author" of "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers", although it had already been published in children's primers in Britain as early as 1813.
Samuel Reid[?] (1783 - 1861) - said to have designed the US flag
... Grant, actor (+ 1986)
January 22 - George Balanchine, choreographer (+ 1983)
January 26 - Ancel Keys, scientist
February 1 - S. J. Perelman[?], humorist, author
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