Picture this: A cemetery with underground marble vaults, plaques containing the names of families and vault owners but not the names of burials, and no headstones. Although not what most of us picture ...
The catacombs of the Green-Wood Cemetery are opened only a few times a year to the public, for guided tours of the mysterious underground and for concerts. Access is gained by using an old-fashioned ...
Finger Lakes as wreaths quietly reached nearly every grave during this year’s Wreaths Across America Day commemoration.
QUEENS, N.Y. - It was a quiet afternoon this week at the All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens. The maintenance staff was hard at work, caring for its 225 acres, the final resting place for ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A historic cemetery that has seen controversy is now the property of the New York City Parks Department. The Trustees of Sailors’ Snug Harbor announced that they had transferred ...
Green-Wood Cemetery, a national landmark located in Brooklyn, is seeking applications for its first artist-in-residence program. Green-Wood’s new Artist-in-Residence program was created as a means of ...
NEW YORK (AP) – Michael Cumella, dressed in 1920s garb, laid his old Victrola record player down among the tombstones and turned to the small tour group assembled under the towering trees at Woodlawn ...
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn — resting place of Basquiat and Boss Tweed — extends its hours for cooped-up New Yorkers. By Andrew Cotto Green-Wood Cemetery, a national historic landmark in Brooklyn, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cumella, dressed in 1920s garb, laid his old Victrola record player down among the tombstones and turned to the small tour group assembled under the towering trees at Woodlawn ...
Cherry Blossom season is for the birds in Brooklyn. At Greenwood Cemetery the yearly blossoming of the vibrant pink trees is also a time for an unusual, local sight — a throng of florescent green monk ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “To America,” a musical walking tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, is one of the few opportunities to experience live performance in New York this fall. By ...