Mitch Waxman

BEHIND 325-335 Gresham Lang

Heirs of the vaults’ 19th century owners are eligible NEW YORK MARBLE CEMETERY to be buried here. SECRET CEMETERY SECRET GARDEN D. Mulkins D. Brenda Brand

Cemetery access is via iron gate next to 43 Second Avenue.

NY Marble Cemetery is a hidden half-acre garden bounded by 2nd and engineer Benjamin Wright; and New York Historical Society founder 3rd Sreets, Second Avenue and Bowery. Built in 1830, it is NYC’s oldest Luman Reed, who founded the city’s first art museum in his home. non-denominational cemetery. It contains 156 underground family Though burials slowed by the mid-1800s as families sought plots in vaults the size of small rooms, surrounded by 12-foot-high Greek more rural areas, a 1905 fundraising effort helped maintain the Revival-style walls of Tuckahoe marble. There are no headstones for cemetery for the 20th century, just as rental events like weddings the 2,100 burials; only plaques on walls naming family purchasers and assure survival into the 21st. corresponding vault numbers. This NYC Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Interments include NYC’s second popularly elected mayor, Aaron Clark; is open once a month during warm weather. NYU co-founder and abolitionist Congressman James Tallmadge; Mary Check marblecemetery.org for dates. Ann Delafield DuBois, NY Nursery & Child’s Hospital founder; Erie Canal

Left: Luman Reed (1787-1836) Painting by Asher Brown Durand, 1835; WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY Center: Benjamin Wright (1770-1842) The Bowery is NYC’s oldest thoroughfare. Originally a Native American Artist unknown, c. 1825; private owner footpath and Dutch farm road (bouwerij means farm), it is a cradle of Right: Congressman James Tallmadge American culture, with seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish (1778-1853) Image: F. D’Avignon & G. & W. Endicott, theater, Lincoln, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, tattoo art, Abstract lithographers Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Domain) (Public Expressionism, Beat literature, jazz and punk rock. Though listed on the National Register of Historic Places, out-of-scale developments are displacing its residents, small businesses, and historic character. More info/link to Bowery’s National Register listing: boweryalliance.org

Funding for the BOWERY SIGNAGE PROJECT: La Vida Feliz Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Patricia Field, Andre Balazs, Adam Woodward, John Derian, Michael A. Geyer Architect, and contributions from Bowery friends and neighbors. Poster Design: Professional Practice Class, The Cooper Union