Article: Cemeteries running out of room: On the East End, centuries-old burial grounds face a crisis, with real estate costs hindering expansion.

Byline: Susana Enriquez

Jun. 2--Artist Elisha Johns had one wish before he died: to be buried next to his father at Green River Cemetery in East Hampton.

But the cemetery was full and almost three years after his death, his daughter, Tamara Salerno, still has his cremated remains in her house, hoping to find a way to make the cemetery his final resting place.

"The cemetery was taken over by artists who don't have the same roots that we do," said Salerno, whose family has lived in East Hampton for three generations. "You go there almost as a novelty and say, 'Wow. My grandfather is buried where [the artist] Jackson Pollock is buried.' But you ...

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