Alexandra Kathryn Mosca is the author of Grave Undertakings (New Horizon Press, 2003), Green-Wood Cemetery (Arcadia Publishing, 2008) and Gardens of Stone (2016). She is also a frequent contributor to American Funeral Director and American Cemetery Magazines. Her body of work has included profiles of some of America's most well known cemeteries: Green-Wood, Salem Fields, Woodlawn, Calvary and Kensico in NewYork, as well as Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Mosca has also penned feature articles about the funerals of famous Americans: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Gov. Mario Cuomo, Joan Rivers and Mayor Edward I. Koch, NewYork City's beloved mayor, to name just a few.Her work has also appeared in Newsday and The New York Daily News. In addition to being a writer, Mosca works as a funeral director. Because of her national reputation as a chronicler of the funeral industry and cemeteries, Mosca is often sought after for comments about trends and her unique perspective about death and dying.
They are found in tiny parcels of land squeezed among Manhattan buildings and in large rolling tracts of land in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. New York City's cemeteries carry...