Not many people realize that the Legend of Sleepy Hollow's main character is based on a real man, Icabod Crane. Nor do many people realize that while all the other characters of this story are buried at Sleepy Hollow church, Icabod is buried in Staten Island, NY. Icabod Crane lived during the colonial period in a house on Victory Boulevard, it was later demolished.

Washington Irving remembered the soldier he had met at Sacketts Harbor, NY while in the army, and based a pompous school teacher on him.

Washington Irving may have set his story in Sleepy Hollow, But perhaps he got his inspiration in Staten Island.  There's legend of a 'sinister black  cloaked figure with a large dog'  lurking around Bull's Head.

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Icabod's grave is in the Asbury Methodist Cemetery on Richmond Ave. If you go in, its the square one in the back left.

His grave looks fairly new, which makes me believe its been redone in recent years.

A note on the cemetery... It doesn't seem that its well taken care of. Alot of the stones are broken or cracked. It looks as if they've recently tried to clean up the cemetery. Allot of trees have been cut down, and the brush removed. 

~Tory