Editing Valhalla, New York (section)

=== Kensico Cemetery ===
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[[File:The Lake at Kensico Cemetery.JPG|thumb|right|Kensico Cemetery]]

The [[Kensico Cemetery]] was founded in 1889 in Valhalla at a time when many of the cemeteries in the city of [[New York City|New York]] were filling up, and several rural cemeteries were founded near the railroads that served the metropolis. Initially {{convert|250|acre|ha}} in size, the cemetery was expanded to {{convert|600|acre|km2}} in 1905, but reduced to {{convert|460|acre|km2}} in 1912, when a portion of its land was sold to the neighboring [[Gate of Heaven Cemetery]].

The Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous famous people, including legendary [[New York Yankees]] star [[Lou Gehrig]]; virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]; the author [[Ayn Rand]]; and [[NBC]] founder [[David Sarnoff]]. It was also, after [[Suicide of Danny Chen|his suicide]], the final resting place of Pvt. Danny Chen.

Valhalla and neighboring Hawthorne are fairly densely packed with cemeteries, albeit not as densely as [[Colma, California|Colma]], [[California]].