The secret city
Subtitle: Woodlawn Cemetery and the buried history of New York
By: Fred Goodman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.); Celebrities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.; New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Woodlawn Cemetery is a massive necropolis, four hundred immaculately and privately maintained acres in the north Bronx that serve as the final resting place for three hundred thousand New Yorkers. Its long-term inhabitants include Herman Melville, Duke Ellington, Robert Moses, Fiorello La Guardia, Miles Davis, and dozens of Gilded Age grandees - including Goulds and Astors - who were determined to spend eternity with opulence to match their residences while alive." "Writer Fred Goodman stumbled upon Woodlawn one day when he wandered off his bicycling path. The Secret City is the product of his obsessive researches into the lives of many of the once famed, now forgotten men and women buried there. Featuring nine episodes chronologically arranged, each story presents an exceptional individual caught up in a defining or historical moment of New York's social, political, commercial, or artistic life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-385).