11. Green-Wood Cemetery
Basquiat died at just 27 years old of a heroin overdose at his Great Jones Street home. Soon after, he was buried at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, followed by a number of private and public memorial services. His grave merely says his name, birth and death years, and “Artist.”
Green-Wood Cemetery was the second most popular tourist site in the state with over 500,000 visitors each year by 1860. Since then, it has developed a reputation of being a most prestigious place to be buried with 560,000 “permanent residents.” They include William Meager “Boss” Tweed, “Father of Baseball” Henry Chadwick, Horace Greeley, Leonard Bernstein, and Samuel Morse.
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