Reviews for Where to go and what to do on Long Island

The average rating for Where to go and what to do on Long Island based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-17 00:00:00 Mark Morin This was the second of Culbertson and Randall's "Permanent" series, exploring the permanent residents of Paris, California, Italy, and London. This one feels like it covers a vast amount of territory, from offering multiple tours of Green-Wood and Woodlawn to capsule suggestions of quick trips to the Hartsdale Canine Cemetery, Belmont Racetrack, and the Quaker Cemetery of Brooklyn. Some of the choices are strange. There's a scant paragraph about the New York Marble Cemetery, which holds the remnants of 40 cemeteries that were destroyed to make room for the City's growth. It makes me wonder if the authors found the cemetery closed when they visited, as I did in June. Strawberry Fields in Central Park rates more description, even though the authors admit that John Lennon's ashes aren't buried there. The Hart's Island Potter's Field is included for the sake of completeness, I suppose, even though I'd be surprised if most tourists could or would want to try to visit it. Which may be the split between the authors' intention for this book and the way I want to use it. It's not a guidebook, in that it doesn't include cemetery addresses, opening hours, or suggestions for how to visit the cemeteries listed inside. It doesn't include enough photographs of the graves or graveyards and spends page after page on biographies of people like Judy Garland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Malcolm X. Maybe it's meant to be an armchair travel book. My quest for the perfect New York City cemetery guide continues -- but this was an excellent reference to read in the hotel room between cemetery explorations.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-01 00:00:00 Angela Williams This gem of a book was a forerunner to the spate of cemetery books available today. For easy reference, Permanent New Yorkers is handily divided into chapters headed by the names of New York's most famous graveyards. Each chapter is further broken by either name or location of some of its most interesting permanent residents. A number of black & white photos augment certain monument descriptions. If you buy only one cemetery compendium, I suggest this one.