I love to do walks on cemeteries and i heard Greenwood cemetery really is worth a visit, so i麓m planning to go there in september. What is the easiest way to get there from manhattan and is it in a safe neighberhood so you can stay there in until night? Also i was wondering if anyone could recommend any other cemetery in the New York area that is worth a visit.
Greenwood cemetery
Big Onion does a walking tour of GreenWood. Here is a link: www.bigonion.com/description/index.html#11 It says to take the R train to 25th St. station in Brooklyn. I haven%26#39;t taken this tour, but I%26#39;ve taken another of theirs and it was very good.
btw, the unusual gates to the cemetery were designed by the same architect as Trinity Church on Wall St - Richard Upjohn, the Englishman who brought Gothic Revival to America.
Greenwood cemetery
Thankyou Ledy Dee for this tip about Big Onion. They had alot of other intresting tours aswell.
I usually take the R train to 25th St in Brooklyn to Greenwood. Check out their webpage - they have some self-guided tours as well as guided tours.
http://www.green-wood.com/
Too bad you won%26#39;t be here in August - there%26#39;s a big ceremony/parade/tour commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn on Sunday, August 24.
Greenwood Cemetary is magnificent and well worth the trip to Brooklyn. It is located between the neighborhoods of Park Slope and Sunset Park. Sometimes the neighborhood is called Greenwood Heights. It has the resting places of the famous [Leonard Bernstein, Currier and Ives] and the infamous [Boss Tweed]
Both of these neighborhoods are safe. Park Slope is very affluent with a wide variety of shops and restaurants on 5th and 7th Avenue. 7th is more established and 5th is trendier. Park Slope runs from 16th Street to Flatbush Avenue, and between 3rd Avenue and Prospect Park West. You may also want to visit Prospect Park which is a short walk away from Greenwood.
The easiest way to get to the cemetary is by Subway. Check out hopstop.com for the best directions. I know the R stops nearby, but other trains such as the F may even be closer.
You take the R train to 25th Street in Brooklyn and when you come out of the subway station you turn right and walk up the hill one block to the cemetery entrance.
At the entrance, they should give you a a large free map of the cemetery that has photos of many of the famous people buried there. If you turn right just past the entrance, you can go into the office and look at the books and pamphlets they have for sale.
The cemetery closes to the public at some point in the evening, I can%26#39;t remember the exact hour, but you would certainly be safe until then. It is an active cemetery, so cemetery employees will be working and driving throughout the property during the day.
Another well-known cemtery in the New York area is Woodlawn, in the northern Bronx, at the Westchester County border. It is not as distinctive as Green-Wood, and was not designed in the same ';rural'; style (it%26#39;s about 20 years younger), but there are also famous people there. You can get to Woodlawn on the subway, but the quickest and easiest way would probably be on the Metro-North suburban rail line, from Grand Central Terminal. Woodlawn also has a website.
Another cemetery often mentioned in the same breath as Green-Wood is Mt. Auburn cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., near Boston, something to keep in mind if you are going to be in the Boston area.
They also have wild parrots that nest there, escaped from a shipment at JFK in the 60s, at least that%26#39;s what people think (also nest at Brooklyn College and there is a smaller flock in Bay Ridge). My friend used to live right near the cemetary and they would sit in the tree outside her window.
The guy who runs the this web site has a free tour one Saturday a month.
brooklynparrots.com/2007/05/photo-essay-wild鈥?/a>
Thank you so much for all your information. Now i can麓t wait to go there and i now got some more ideas of what to when i麓m there. I麓m very happy and excited.
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