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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.
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
Greenwood Heights is a part of Brooklyn Community District 7 along with Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and South Slope. The much-debated borders are roughly the Prospect Expressway to the north, Gowanus Canal and Upper New York Bay to the west, Eighth Avenue to the east, and 39th Street to the south (along the southern boundary of the Green-Wood ...
Brooklyn, New York Green-Wood Cemetery is the final resting place of distinguished figures such as composer Leonard Bernstein and politician Boss Tweed, but most visitors come to pay homage to ...
Battle Hill is the highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, United States, at 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. [1] The hill is part of the Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine formed during the last glacial period.
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebration is happening at a New York City cemetery on Friday. The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is hosting a Day of the Dead family ...
North of 39th Street and east of Fifth Avenue is Green-Wood Cemetery. [237] [235] Opened in 1840, [22] [23] [24] it has been described as "Brooklyn's first public park by default" prior to Prospect Park's construction. [237] Green-Wood Cemetery contains 600,000 graves and 7,000 trees spread out over 478 acres (193 ha). [238] [239]
Category: Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery. 12 languages. ... Deceased people whose remains are interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, United States.