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The idea of leaving Manhattan permanently irritates me.

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The late ED KOCH, former mayor of New York City, on why he bought a burial plot at Manhattan’s Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights — the only cemetery on the island still accepting burials — in 2008, five years before he died.

You might also remember Trinity from The Royal Tenenbaums.

(via the New York Times; image of the actual tombstone via Forgotten-NY.com)

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