Mark the anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn with a day at Green-Wood Cemetery experiencing everything from a full-scale replica of George Washington’s field office to music of the era. Part of the ...

Wood's annual Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on Nov. 1, featuring live performances, art, crafts, food and a ...

"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 ...

Green-Wood Cemetery, the Brooklyn burial site for the rich and famous of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the site of a Revolutionary War battle, remains one of the most historic and unique ...

Travel to Green-Wood Cemetery, a national landmark just outside New York City, and find out which famous people chose this as their final resting place and why this space is so important to Brooklyn.

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 ...

Want more reporting from THE CITY? Sign up for Scoop, our free weekday newsletter, to have our latest news delivered right to your inbox. Graves aren’t the only things underground at Green-Wood ...

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 ...

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 ...