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 Running Weld
By Stephen Rodrick
The quixotic candidacy of the partying patrician who wants to be governor, again. |
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 Vera Wang’s Second Honeymoon
By Amy Larocca
Brides love Vera Wang. But does she love them? (Not so much.) What this former Vogue editor and self-described fashion nun really has a passion for is clothes. But let her tell you about it. |
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THE IMPERIAL CITY
 The Good Old Boy of Time Inc.
By Kurt Andersen
John Huey sits atop Time and Fortune and 149 other magazines, ready to have some fun. Only now the good old days of big media are history. |
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THE POWER GRID
 Chuck’s Chance
By John Heilemann
Whatever happens with Judge Alito, Schumer is likely the Democratic winner. It’s all part of his secret plan for senatorial domination. |
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Tim
Burton's vision of Sleepy Hollow
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For Horsemen
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Established 1849
540 North Broadway
Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
914-631-0081
Washington Irving not only made this
town famous with his tale of the Headless Horseman, he also named
its graveyard and is buried here. With its Old World architecture
and musty but dignified atmosphere, Sleepy Hollow is a serene respite
from the nearby 21st-century traffic. It runs into the Old Dutch
Burying Ground, where people were first interred in 1650 and which
predates American-made brick.
The Lowdown: A glamour buy for the robber baron in your
family.
Notable Residents: Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller,
Walter Chrysler, IBM founder Thomas Watson
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By Jitney...
Green River Cemetery
Established 1903
Accabonac Highway
Springs, N.Y.
It figures that the hardest cemetery to get
into in New York City is in East Hampton. With an A-list celebrity
roster and only so much land to go around, Green River is the "in"
place to be buried. As its chic mounted over the years, plot prices
have climbed into the six figures. Sure, the grounds can get a little
messy and could use a dab of paint here and there, but if your influential,
would-be neighbors don't mind, who are you to complain? More to
the point, is there anything you can do to land a spot? In 1992,
the widow of Steven J. Ross, funeral-parlor owner-turned-creator
of Time Warner, bought up the 110 remaining grave plots in the cemetery's
scanty three acres, setting off a firestorm of protest. While the
cemetery added a fourth acre in response, there currently isn't
any space left — unless, that is, you know Mrs. Ross well enough
to score one. She did reportedly donate a grave from her stash for
director Alan J. Pakula.
The Lowdown: To make East Hampton more than just your summer
place, you'll have to cozy up to Courtney Sale Ross.
Notable Residents: Writer A.J. Liebling; director Alan J.
Pakula; artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning
(Willem's wife), and Stuart Davis; Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jean Stafford; Time Warner CEO Steven J. Ross; composer Stefan Wolpe
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Diva's Delight
Ferncliff Cemetery
Established 1902
Secor Road
Hartsdale, NY
914-562-9321
Located less than 25 miles north of the city,
Ferncliff's 63 acres of park-like grounds (plus some undeveloped wooded
land) include three mausoleums, though grave stones are no longer
permitted. You can get no greater endorsement than the residency of
Joan Crawford, Unit 8, Alcove E, Crypt 42. If it was good enough for
Mommie Dearest, surely it's good enough for the likes of you.
The Lowdown: For the classically artistic, theater-loving
New Yorker who won't take any guff. If you want to splurge for the
whole family, a private, marble room with stained glass windows
can be yours for as little as $287,500. There's also room in Judy
Garland's mausoleum.
Notable Residents: Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Ed Sullivan,
composers Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, playwright Hart
Moss, novelist James Baldwin, writer-director Preston Sturges, Malcolm
X and Betty Shabazz. For you cremation snobs, the facility here
was used for John Lennon and Nelson Rockefeller, among other powerhouses.
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New York's
Most Exclusive Cemetery
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Established 1858
460 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
212-753-2261
To be perfectly frank, you haven't got a chance
in hell of being buried at this ultra-elite spot for the archbishops
of New York. But just for the sake of argument, let's say you were
born a Haitian slave and were brought to the States by your masters,
then used the money you earned as a hairdresser to buy not your own
freedom, but the freedom of other slaves, and to help the poor. You
then wound up supporting your own master and ultimately helped found
an orphanage and a cathedral. Or something like that. Then, just maybe,
you might score as well as Pierre Toussaint, the only layperson to
be buried alongside the crypt's 12 other residents. Toussaint died
in 1853 and was moved to St. Patrick's at the behest of Cardinal John
O'Connor. The crypt has only eight spots left.
The Lowdown: Dream on.
Notable Residents: Pierre Toussaint, Cardinal John O'Connor,
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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