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Hace 2 días · Almost 200 years old, the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is an impressive site with some interesting secrets. Here are our top 10.
Hace 3 días · Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west.
Hace 1 día · Green-Wood Cemetery established. James Weeks, an African-American freedman from Virginia, buys the land which marks the beginning of Weeksville, which grows to be the largest independent Negro town in the nation before the Civil War; 1839 – Cyrus P. Smith is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1839 to 1841. 1840s
Hace 2 días · On a visit to Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, you might notice this magnificent little abandoned greenhouse across the street from the entrance on 5th Avenue and 25th Street.
Hace 3 días · The most unlikely attraction at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is the group of loud, colorful, possibly illegal immigrants: the monk parrots of Argentina.
Hace 3 días · Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is a sprawling 478-acre “rural” resting place with over half a million permanent residents. When it was opened in 1838, it was one of the first landscaped, park-like sites in the city, and New Yorkers would come from miles around to picnic and walk its shaded green paths.
Hace 5 días · Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Sprawling over 478 acres, Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in a time of rapid urbanization. Churchyards in New York were quickly becoming overcrowded. The idea for the cemetery began with Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, a Brooklyn resident and social leader.