"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 ...

The Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) recently hosted a historical tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, immersing participants in the rich military history of Brooklyn, on Wednesday, May 22. The “Battle of ...

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 ...

Green-Wood Cemetery hosted its annual Battle of Brooklyn Commemoration and Family Day over the weekend, inviting visitors of all ages to explore the rich history of the Revolutionary War. Visitors ...

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A box full of NYPD uniforms was found abandoned on the sidewalk near a Brooklyn cemetery on Tuesday night, police said.

Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery and its thousands of permanent residents are the focal point of Eugene Richards's latest book, Remembrance Garden. (all photographs ...

The Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the first rural burial grounds in the country, will present a new concert series “Phantom Waves,” inspired by the acoustics in the cemetery’s catacombs and historic ...

Officers discovered a box containing NYPD pants, shirts, jackets and hats was found on a roadside near Brooklyn's Green-Wood ...