Cheap things to do: Cemeteries

Green-Wood Cemetery
There’s no better place in the five boroughs for morbid history buffs: This 478-acre cemetery is the permanent residence of more than 560,000 deadbeats, including mobsters, newspaper moguls, actors and generals. 500 25th St at Fifth Ave, Sunset Park, Brooklyn (718-768-7300, green-wood.com)

Woodlawn Cemetery
Clocking in at 400 acres, this pastoral Bronx cemetery dates back to 1863 and is home to some of jazz’s greatest players (Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, etc.)—not to mention a few bone-chilling memorial sculptures. 501 E 233rd St at Webster Ave, Bronx (718-920-0500, thewoodlawncemetery.org)

New York Marble Cemetery
Sometimes called the Second Avenue Cemetery and not to be confused with the New York City Marble Cemetery around the corner, this swatch of land is the oldest public nonsectarian graveyard in NYC. But wait, where are the graves? Most folks interred here met their fate between 1830 and 1870, when city officials believed corpses caused yellow-fever outbreaks. Accordingly, the dead were loaded into underground vaults made of Tuckahoe marble, and their names were denoted on plaques that line the cemetery walls. 41 Second Ave between 2nd and 3rd Sts (marblecemetery.org)

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