8. Many famous people are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery

Until 1848, Green-Wood Cemetery was the fourth most popular place to be buried in the United States. Among the many immigrants and ordinary citizens interred there are members of prominent New York families like the Roosevelts, Pierreponts, Jeromes, and Schermerhorns.

There are also many famous residents buried there including William Meager “Boss” Tweed, the infamous corrupt politician; Henry Chadwick, the “Father of Baseball”; Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New York Tribune; Leonard Bernstein, notable American composer and conductor; artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; Frank Morgan Wupperman, the actor who played the wizard in The Wizard Of Oz: and Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. Among these famous individuals also lie 5,000 Civil War soldiers, a large percentage of who were laid to rest in unmarked graves.