Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY

Green-Wood Cemetery is a 193-hectare cemetery located in the Western city. Greenwood Heights, South Slope, Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, and Park Slope are all within cemetery blocks, which are located in Brooklyn, southwest of Prospect Park. McDonald Avenue east, Fort Hamilton Parkway southwest, 36th and 37th Roadways south, Fifth Avenue North, and 20th Street to the northeast are some of the streets that form its limits.

Green-Wood Cemetery was established in 1838 as a rural cemetery during a time of rapid urbanization when New York City’s churchyards were becoming crowded. Described as Brooklyn’s first public park by default long before Prospect Park was created. As a result of the popularity of Green-Wood Cemetery, a design competition for Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in the adjacent neighborhood was held.

In 1997 on the National Register of Historic Places, the cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission also listed the Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel, Fort Hamilton Parkway Gate, the Weir Greenhouse, and 25th Street gates as city landmarks at various periods.

Among the persons buried at Green-Wood Cemetery are those who had a wide range of professions. James Ives, Nathaniel Currier, Asher B. Durand, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Catlin, and architects Richard Upjohn and James Renwick Jr. are some of the artists buried at the cemetery.

The cemetery also has the graves of public figures like DeWitt Clinton, Henry Ward Beecher, and William M. Tweed as well as industrialists like Charles Pfizer, William Colgate, and Edward R. Squibb. Among the interment at the cemetery are six British Commonwealth service personnel whose graves are registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, three from World War I and three from World War II. Henry George, Charles Ebbets, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Bernstein, and Brooklyn rapper Bashar Barakah “Pop Smoke” Jackson are among the noteworthy figures buried in the cemetery.

As a result, both the cemetery’s entrance gates and the Weir Greenhouse, which serves as a tourist center, were named New York City landmarks in 1966. The U.S. Department of the Interior designated the cemetery a National Historic Landmark in 2006 and added it to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Official New York City landmarks were established in 2016 for Fort Hamilton Parkway Gate and the burial chapel.

The Green-Wood Cemetery is located at 500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

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