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The Green-Wood Cemetery was the second most popular tourist site in the state with over 500,000 visitors each year
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The most unlikely attraction at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is the group of loud, colorful, possibly illegal immigrants: the monk
The skyscrapers of Newspaper Row. New York Times photo archive, Image in public domain from Wikimedia Commons. On Saturday, October
Urbanites are on a mission to have local, organically grown food, which in turn has led us to a growing
Image by Thomas Johnson from Brooklyn Museum in Wikimedia Commons Walt Whitman is one of America’s literary giants. The
New York City is abuzz with the latest news that nearly 100 proposed landmarks are to be “decalendered” by the
You’re likely familiar with the gorgeous entrance to Green-Wood Cemetery across from the abandoned McGovern-Weir greenhouse, the lush rural
On a visit to Green-Wood Cemetery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, you might notice this magnificent little abandoned greenhouse across the
The 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, founded in 1838, was one of “America’s first rural cemeteries.” The official website
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The city of New York has been gradually moving the controversial statue Civic Virtue around. In 1922, American Beaux-Arts sculptor
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