At 113 acres, the beautiful Moravian Cemetery is more than 250 years old. Home to the Vanderbilt tomb, visitors can join a guided tour of this burial ground. To make reservations, please visit www.MoravianCemetery.com or contact the historian, Richard Simpson, by calling 718.351.0136 x7 or by email, cemetaryguy@earthlink.net.
On Staten Island you can also find the final resting place of a famous literary character, Ichabod Crane. The namesake for Washington Irving's character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow", the real Ichabod Crane was an army major who lived in the 19th Century. He is buried in the New Springville Cemetery in Bulls Head.
One of Staten Island's oldest burial grounds, the Blazing Star Cemetery in Rossville has headstones dating from 1750. Adjacent to this cemetery is a graveyard of a different sort: One for ships. Off Staten Island's coast there are dozens of old ferries, tug boats, and other vessels, slowly decaying. A surreal site to be seen, this boat cemetery is not to be missed.