New York Daily News

Daring

- BY DALE W. EISINGER and THOMAS TRACY

CHRISTOPHE­R SERRANO died doing what he loved — taking extreme risks to capture breathtaki­ng images of the city he adored.

And now thanks to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, the work of the 25-year-old shutterbug will live on.

Serrano’s beautiful picture of the Brooklyn Bridge was unveiled Saturday in the cemetery’s columbariu­m. Other photos by Serrano will hang in Green-Wood’s new gallery when it opens later this year.

The location is not a coincidenc­e. The historic cemetery is where Serrano’s camera-shaped urn — a replica of his Cannon 6D — is entombed.

“This is something that we wanted to do to keep his name alive and his work alive,” Serrano’s father Herman Serrano

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