Leona Helmsley’s $1.4 Million Mausoleum

Earlier on this blog, I reported on the death of Leona Helmsley.  According to Daniel Trotta, New York’s Helmsley to rest in $1.4 mln mausoleum, Reuters, Aug. 21, 2007:

New York real estate queen Leona Helmsley will be lavishly laid to rest in a mausoleum worth $1.4 million — more than the average Manhattan apartment. * * *

She will be entombed at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery north of New York City where more than 40,000 people including captains of industry and common immigrants are buried, said Phil Zegarelli, the mayor of Sleepy Hollow, population 10,000.

The wooded hillside with river views is the final resting home of industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie and Walter Chrysler as well as labor leader Samuel Gompers and writer Washington Irving, author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”