Machpelah Cemetery (Queens)

[citation needed] During October 1969, the 43rd anniversary of Houdini's death was celebrated on Halloween by The Spellbinder, the Society of American Magicians.

[3] Among the members of the society's New York Chapter were one-hundred Long Island Magicians, who went to Houdini's grave at Machpelah Cemetery to hold memorial services for the famed escape artist.

David Copperfield, perhaps the world's best-known contemporary magician, paid his respects at Harry Houdini's grave site.

[4] George Schindler, the dean of the Society of American Magicians, said his group had stopped contributing money toward the maintenance of the site in recent years.

"[6] "The Society of American Magicians never paid the cemetery for any restoration of the Houdini family plot in my tenure since 1988," Jacobson said.

[8] On September 27, 2011, a group from the Harry Houdini Museum in Scranton secretly installed a reproduction of the bust, made from durable statuary cement.

[8] Among the group were Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz, museum directors, and retired escape artist Stephen Moore.