Here in Sunset Park we find another 34th Street Partnership planter living far from its native land.

Designed by the Upjohns

Green-Wood's chapel is a scaled-down version of Christopher Wren's Tom Tower. Here's a shot I took last fall from the hill in the background.

He of the stained glass

Located right behind the sewing machine pioneer's imposing monument is a headstone for Fannie — the family dog! It reads:

ONLY A DOG DO YOU SAY, SIR CRITIC?
ONLY A DOG, BUT AS TRUTH I PRIZE,
THE TRUEST LOVE I HAVE WON IN LIVING
LAY IN THE DEEPS OF HER LIMPID EYES.
FROSTS OF WINTER NOR HEAT OF SUMMER
COULD MAKE HER FAIL IF MY FOOTSTEPS LED:
AND MEMORY HOLDS IN ITS TREASURE CASKET
THE NAME OF MY DARLING WHO LIETH DEAD.

The plaque on the monument at center reads:

THIS STONE
WHICH FORMERLY, WAS A PART OF THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE [a.k.a. the Brooklyn Bridge],
HAS BEEN HERE PLACED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES,
OVER THE REMAINS OF ITS LATE PRESIDENT
WILLIAM C. KINGSLEY,
AS A MEMORIAL OF THE GREAT SERVICES RENDERED BY HIM
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THAT WORK.

Inscribed on the monument is the final stanza of this hymn by Isaac Watts:

There are no acts of pardon past
In the cold grave to which we haste
But darkness, death and long despair
Reign in eternal silence there

John W. Mackay, the last of the Bonanza Kings

One rich-ass dude. Take a peek inside his mausoleum!

Borrowing from a previous post:

The founder of Cooper Union, Peter Cooper was an extremely successful inventor (his creations ranged from America's first steam locomotive to an early version of Jell-O) and entrepreneur (we saw the site of one of his glue factories covered in snow back in 2012), a beloved philanthropist, and the cultivator of one of history's great beards.

You can read the text carved into the monument here.

Isaac K. Funk was the founder of Funk & Wagnalls. We passed by his old house on Staten Island last year.

Can you guess the surname this string of consonants belongs to? Here's the answer.

John Stemme was inspired during his travels in Egypt to build this towering monument at his cemetery plot. Standing some 65 feet in height, it was said at the time of its erection in 1896 to be the tallest grave marker in the country. The monolithic granite shaft alone is about 54 feet long; it was carried to New York atop three custom-built rail cars from Barre, Vermont. Weighing around 150,000 pounds before being cut, it was reportedly the largest single piece of granite ever quarried in the US. Neither of those superlative claims holds up to the facts, however: in 1880, an even taller and heavier granite obelisk (photo) was unveiled at the grave of General John E. Wool at a cemetery in Troy, New York.

Some hieroglyphs can be found carved into the pedestal at the base of the monument. They are apparently a representation of Mr. Stemme's name: "it is said that the millionaire spent many weary weeks hunting for a brainy man who was bold enough to undertake the task of translating the name John Stemme into Egyptian."