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The Proudest Yankee

In honor of opening day at Yankee Stadium.
Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin had a distinguished career in baseball. The second baseman for the Yankees was a contemporary of Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra, and later became the team's manager. In that role, he led the team to a number of victories. The outspoken Martin's public feuds, most notably with team owner, George Steinbrenner, were legendary. Martin was killed in a car accident on Christmas day in 1989. After a funeral Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral, attended by many former teammates, he was buried in New York's Gate of Heaven Cemetery, nearby the grave of Babe Ruth. These words are etched upon his monument:"I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest."
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Archibald Gracie IV: A Titanic Hero

Archibald Gracie IV was instrumental in saving the lives of a number of fellow RMS Titanic passengers. Gracie, too, survived and began work on a book about that tragic night. Sadly, Gracie died eight months later from the effects of his ordeal in the sea. His book, titled "Titanic: A Survivor's Story" was published posthumously. Gracie is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, surrounded by many family graves.The Gracie ancestral home serves as the New York City mayoral residence.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

The closing words to The Great Gatsby are etched into the slab in front of the monument. Despite the disappointing initial sales of the book, Max Perkins (Fitzgerald's editor at Scribner), wrote him: "The amount of meaning you get into a sentence, the dimensions and intensity of the impressions you make a paragraph carry, are most extraordinary."
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Rose

One of my favorite monuments in Calvary Cemetery is that of 25-year-old Rose, who died in 1927.
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Anthony Salerno

In the 1980's Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno was the boss of the Genovese crime family. In 1992, he died in prison, six years into a life sentence. Salerno is entombed in a private mausoleum in St. Raymond's Cemetery.
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The Scorsese Mausoleum on Staten Island

The parents of famed film director Martin Scorsese, who has such hit films as Goodfellas and Gangs of New York to his credit, are entombed in a private mausoleum on a hill in Staten Island's Moravian Cemetery. Both Catherine and Charles Scorsese had bit roles in Goodfellas.
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The Wang Family

Designer Vera Wang's family rests in style in Westchester County's Kensico Cemetery.  The Wang family memorial overlooks the Cohasset Plot, a seven acre hillside expanse which contains an abundance of decorative laser-etched monuments bearing Asian surnames. At dusk the ivory granite structure takes on a greyish hue.
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