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Upper West Side: Grant’s Tomb Night Crawl and Feel Free Central Park ConcertWho’s buried in Grant’s tomb? Well, we all know the answer to that one.  Photo: Grant's Tomb via www.grantstomb.org/. Last night, the National Park Service opened up Grant’s Tomb, at 122th Street and Riverside, for a spooky but enlightening tour of the great Civil War general’s tomb. It’s all part of the Park Service’s week of activities in the run-up to the airing Sept. 27 on PBS of Ken Burn’s new documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Inside the marble and granite mausoleum, it was pitch dark,with only a few lanterns to light the way down to the crypt where Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, are buried in six thousand-pound burial crypts. A guide dressed in Civil War dress spouted stories and facts about the general and later U.S. president, who died in 1885. The tomb was finished in 1897 and 90,000 people from around the world donated over $600,000 towards its construction. Tonight, you can pack a picnic, settled down in Central Park’s East Meadow and get a sneak peak of Burn’s new film. The Feel Free celebration, which is free, will begin at 7 p.m. and also include musical performances from Eric Benet, Peter Coyote, Jose Feliciano and more.
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