"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 is the permanent resting spot for nearly 600,000 New Yorkers, but it wasn’t always the famous national landmark it is today. Explore how the cemetery grounds are maintained, which ...

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 ...

NAMING THE LOST Memorials (NTLM), along with City Lore, Great Small Works, Mano A Mano, and The Green-Wood Cemetery, held their fifth COVID-19 public art memorial activation and dedication ceremony on ...

Coming up on the Brooklyn Patch calendar: Virtual Open House at Berkeley College ...

Artist groups Naming the Lost Memorials (NTLM), City Lore, Great Small Works, and Mano A Mano, along with the Green-Wood Cemetery, held their fifth Covid-19 public art memorial activation and ...

GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY — Richard J. Moylan served as the president of Green-Wood Cemetery since 1986 and announced his decision to retire in 2025. As the head of one of the nation’s most storied ...

Another year, another successful week of commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn, on the 238th anniversary of the historic event. The week-long list of festivities concluded on August 24, at Green-Wood ...

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A local cemetery worker describes the struggle to keep up with the mounting death toll caused by COVID-19. Ali Meawad is a gravedigger at Green-Wood Cemetery in ...