He said that if he can't find a cemetery plot, he plans to ask the government to find a grave.

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At least one person has done so, she says: a local man who bought two angels, not knowing they came from a cemetery plot.

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"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space.

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After purchasing a burial plot in Manhattan's Trinity Cemetery in 2008.

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However, the commission said its preferred option was to "remove the screen wall and erect a new screen wall at a more suitable location down in the service plot area" of the cemetery.

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