Our annual Battle of Brooklyn commemoration was bigger and better than ever this year. On Sunday, August 26, we commemorated the 236th anniversary of the battle (fought on August 27, 1776).
Brooklyn Crescents Lacrosse is hosting FREE fall lacrosse clinics at Poly Prep and downtown Brooklyn.
It has been less than a week since about 50 gravestones at Green-Wood were vandalized, but it is just a matter of time, and skill, and money, until these monuments are repaired.
Tuesday morning started out like any other summer day at Green-Wood, but we soon learned that 43 memorials and monuments of the dead had been vandalized.
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On August 27, 1920, the 144th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, a sculpture of Minerva was unveiled on Green-Wood’s Battle Hill. But Minerva was not always set to salute the Statue of Liberty.
I spent much of this past Sunday exploring the South Street Seaport area. An ocean-centered economy prospered there in the 19th century, and it offers a real who’s who of Green-Wood.
Our Civil War Project began in 2002, and has been going strong for almost 10 years now. Recently, we confronted a bit of a mystery.
An enthusiastic crowd witnessed the unveiling of “The Greeter,” sculptor John Coleman’s gift to Green-Wood in honor of George Catlin, the father of art of the American West.
Our Green-Wood Historic Fund Collections continue to grow. Green-Wood’s president, Rich Moylan, is always on the look-out for paintings or sculpture by Green-Wood’s permanent residents.
Kurt Andersen has quite the resume as a writer, reporter, and entertainer. We are flattered that Kurt included Green-Wood Cemetery in his current “Kings County” series on WNYC.
This past Saturday, about 30 people joined us for our Appening–the debut of The Green-Wood Historic Fund’s app. This app, I believe, is the best cemetery app in America.
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This past Friday, July 13, a ceremony 164 years in the making occurred. We honored men who served the United States of America and sacrificed their lives all those years ago.
I have long been fascinated with Thomas William Sweeny (1820-1892), who is interred at Green-Wood in section 163, lot 14257. He was quite a character.
It was not business-as-usual in New York City on July 12, 1848. The remains of the officers of New York’s First Regiment who had died in the far-off Mexican-American War had finally come home.
Dr. Richard Isay, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and gay-rights advocate, died of cancer on June 28 and was interred at Green-Wood yesterday.
Green-Wood has many great stories. But few, if any, can match the drama of that of the Civil War Prentiss brothers: "Two Brothers, One South, One North."
I have a Google alert for “Green-Wood Cemetery.” And, it is a rare day that a blog entry about Green-Wood does not come up. I just came across one that I found to be fascinating.
Green-Wood is many things: sculpture garden, historic park, bird-watcher’s paradise, suburb for the dead. But it is also a great arboretum, with one of New York City’s great tree collections.
The Green-Wood Historic Fund continues to collect items that help us tell the stories of the cemetery's history and its permanent residents.
Good bye to KeyFood but before they close, just one more outrage that was perpetrated on the neighborhood before closing their doors....
By the 1850s, Green-Wood was the pre-eminent place for burials of New York City residents. The great heroes of that era were firemen...
There is a lot going on across Green-Wood’s magnificent 478 acres. New trees are being planted, and new discoveries are being made.
Yesterday, Green-Wood hosted its 14th Annual Free Memorial Day Concert. A big crowd turned out to enjoy the music.
Since soon after Green-Wood Cemetery’s founding, it has been a great sculpture garden. If you lived in mid-19th-century New York and you wanted to see sculpture, you came to Green-Wood.
Donna Summer, “The Queen of Disco,” died at the age of 63 this past Thursday. She sometimes collaborated with Paul Jabara (1948-1992) from Brooklyn, who wrote her huge hit “Last Dance."
New Yorkers should not be denied a job because they have poor credit.
New Jersey Berries are here! Enjoy some simple recipes and selection tips to optimize the next 3 weeks of your local life.
This past Saturday the General Meade Society of Philadelphia (“Preserving the Memory of the Victor of Gettysburg”) ventured up to Green-Wood for a Civil War tour.
I knew that Abigail Hopper Gibbons and James Gibbons had been abolitionists who are interred at Green-Wood. I now know that their home was also part of the Underground Railroad.
There he was, for almost a decade, the security guard at Green-Wood’s main gates. He was Edward Watters, a native of Belize.
As the baseball season moves into full stride, it is a good time to remember Green-Wood’s permanent residents who played such a prominent role in the creation of the National Pastime.
Walgreen's aggressive promotion of candy sales conflicts with their message of concern for our health. It is damaging especially to children who are easily wooed by these promotions.
April 15, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Here are some highlights from a recent tour of Green-Wood's Titanic-related sites.
A guest post about William Niblo, who owned Niblo’s Garden, the entertainment hot spot of New York in the mid-19th century.
It seems to me that we are about 10 days earlier with blooms this year than last. I took these photographs on March 28, 2012 – amazing color for so early