"Cemeteries are not just for the dead, they're for the living." Charlotte Canda was coming home from her 17th birthday party in the winter of 1845 in New York when she was thrown from her horse-drawn ...

Green-Wood Cemetery, founded in the late 1830s atop the once glacial terminal moraine and named after its natural beauty, was New York’s first landscaped open green space. Inspired by European ...

So, it is not surprising that many of the key players in the building of the Brooklyn Bridge are buried at Green-Wood. William Kingsley, the primary proponent of a “great bridge” across the East River ...

The catacombs of the Green-Wood Cemetery are opened only a few times a year to the public, for guided tours of the mysterious underground and for concerts. Access is gained by using an old-fashioned ...

Brooklyn’s chief cultural leaders came together at Green-Wood Cemetery on Monday to celebrate the cemetery’s coming Welcome and Education Center — and a handful of other city investments into ...

A multi-million dollar restoration project is under way to bring a glow back to the Gothic-inspired chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. A recent stroll past the towered limestone chapel showed that it is ...

Visit Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and Leonard Bernstein & Jean-Michel Basquiat. Brooklyn’s 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery is a National Historic Landmark. Host Roberto Mighty and experts explore ...

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries. Almost two centuries later, Green-Wood remains a cultural institution and an outdoor museum that documents the ...