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Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace and Kensington, has proven to be a Forgotten favorite — this was the 3rd such Green-Wood tour in the series which here attains its 49th entry. The cemetery, instituted in 1838, is so vast that it’s impossible to do the same [...]
Categorized in: Cemeteries Tours Tagged with: DeWitt Clinton Greenwood Heights
CONTINUED FROM GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS PART 1 5th Avenue The stretch of Fifth Avenue along Green-Wood cemetery is by far its quietest, sandwiched between its incredibly bustling areas on either end: Park Slope to the north, and Sunset Park and Bay Ridge to the south. It’s hard for any Brooklynite under 70 to envision it now but this [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Green-Wood Cemetery Greenwood Heights
I confess. ”Green-Wood Heights” is a name concocted by real-estaters stumped about what to call the area on the NW side of Green-Wood Cemetery between Park Slope and Sunset Park. Some even say that the terms refer only to Prospect Avenue south to 20th Street and from 3rd Avenue southeast to about McDonald Avenue. GOOGLE MAP: [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Green-Wood Cemetery Greenwood Heights
