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Directions to Green-Wood. HOURS. Green-Wood welcomes visitors at four entrances. Hours vary by season and by entrance. See details below. Main Entrance (Fifth Avenue and 25th Street) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 1 to Mar 31, every day. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 1 to September 30, every day. Sunset Park Entrance (Fourth Avenue and 35th Street)
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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 ...
- 478 acres (193 ha)
- September 20, 2006
- 1838
Sep 8, 2021 · By 1860, Green-Wood Cemetery was the second most visited tourist attraction in the nation, right after Niagara Falls. It should come as no surprise then that the iconic Central Park and Prospect Park were later built to compete with the beauty of Green-Wood Cemetery. “It is the ambition of New Yorker to live upon Fifth Avenue, to take his ...
The Green-wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 by Henry Evelyn Pierrepoint. The original layout for the cemetery was designed by landscape architect David Bates Douglass. The 478 acres have a varied terrain and feature both the highest point in Brooklyn (Battle Hill) and four glacial kettle ponds.
Oct 3, 2013 · The 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, founded in 1838, was one of “America’s first rural cemeteries.” The official website of the cemetery boasts 560,000 “permanent residents ...