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Green-Wood is a historic cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, offering burial services and a searchable database for interred individuals.
- About
Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to...
- Programs
Exit Strategy is a site specific installation in...
- History
A Brooklyn treasure since 1838. cultural legacy. The...
- Education
The Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre cemetery, arboretum,...
- Research
Historic cemeteries are one of the country’s most important,...
- Giving
Established in 1838, The Green-Wood Cemetery, a National...
- Nature
There are many ways to visit Green-Wood’s 478 acres… SHARON...
- Services
With Green-Wood’s many available options for services, we...
- Visiting
To visit by subway, take the R train to the 25th Street...
- Hours & Rules
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- About
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. [7] The cemetery is located between South Slope / Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park. Its boundaries include, among other streets, 20th ...
Green-Wood is a rural cemetery located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, established in 1838 by one of the borough’s most prominent social leaders, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont. There are approximately 600,000 graves dispersed among the cemetery’s 478 acres. Many of these belong to some of the most important New Yorkers who lived in the late 1800 ...
Sixteen Union generals, including Henry Halleck, Henry Slocum, Abram Duryee, and Fitz-John Porter, and two Confederate generals are buried at The Green-Wood Cemetery.. Several Civil War monuments, including the cast zinc Drummer Boy and New York City's Soldiers' Monument, as well as a Civil War Soldiers' Lot (where approximately 130 Union veterans are interred, including men who died at Shiloh ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Guided Tours. Green-wood Cemetery offers a Historic Trolley for $30 per person. Tours are running as of Summer 2024 on Saturdays from 1 pm - 3 pm. You are accompanied by an expert tour guide who will share the intriguing stories of the more notable permanent "residents".
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Jan 3, 2020 · The Green-Wood Cemetery. Address. 500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, USA. Phone +1 718-768-7300. Web Visit website. While it might be hard to imagine spending a pleasant afternoon at a cemetery, New York City ’s famous Green-Wood Cemetery is actually one of the first landscaped, park-like cemeteries that’s not attached to a church. Founded in ...
Walk east one block to Green-Wood at 5th Avenue and 25th Street. BY CAR. If you are using GPS: Please enter “25th Street and Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.”. Do NOT use “500 25th Street”. From Lower Manhattan. Take Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and exit at Hamilton Avenue (immediately after toll plaza).
