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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.
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 ...
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 Cemetery and northern boundary of the 36th-38th Street Yard and South Brooklyn Railway). [2] Greenwood Heights ...
North of 39th Street and east of Fifth Avenue is Green-Wood Cemetery. [238] [236] Opened in 1840, [22] [23] [24] it has been described as "Brooklyn's first public park by default" prior to Prospect Park's construction. [238] Green-Wood Cemetery contains 600,000 graves and 7,000 trees spread out over 478 acres (193 ha). [239] [240]
The Pilots' Monument is a monument within the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City built to commemorate Thomas Freeborn, pilot of the pilot boat Blossom who lost his life while on board the steamship John Minturn. The monument was built by the New York pilots in 1847 and is located at the top of Battle Hill at the Green-Wood Cemetery.
The 25th Street station is the closest station to the main entrance of Green-Wood Cemetery, located one block to the east of the station. [37] [38] The entrance dates back to 1862, [39] and is a New York City designated landmark, made of New Jersey brownstone with sculpted groups. [38] [40]
Andre Braughe and wife Ami Brabson. André Braugher, the acclaimed actor known for his roles in shows like Homicide: Life on the Street and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, died at age 61 on Dec. 11, 2023.His ...