In the nineteenth century, it “counted” to be buried in Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery. As one observer wrote, “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood.” Among those buried in Greenwood were Horace Greeley, who once advised young men to go west, and Lola Montez, a noted exotic dancer and courtesan.

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