"Cemeteries are not just for the dead, they're for the living." Charlotte Canda was coming home from her 17th birthday party in the winter of 1845 in New York when she was thrown from her horse-drawn ...

Another year, another successful week of commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn, on the 238th anniversary of the historic event. The week-long list of festivities concluded on August 24, at Green-Wood ...

No word if there will be any ghostly spirits around at tour time, but you’ll get a chance this summer to check out the stories and people behind Brooklyn’s pre-prohibition distilling industry at Green ...

Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery and its thousands of permanent residents are the focal point of Eugene Richards's latest book, Remembrance Garden. (all photographs ...

Green-Wood Cemetery’s 10th annual extravaganza, “A Night at Niblo’s Garden,” transformed one of the cemetery’s most picturesque spots, the shores of Crescent Water, into an immersive theatrical ...

Brooklyn’s beloved Green-Wood Cemetery is a safe spot for taking solitary walks during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Its 478 acres of wide-open space are an alternative to crowded parks. It is full ...

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A local cemetery worker describes the struggle to keep up with the mounting death toll caused by COVID-19. Ali Meawad is a gravedigger at Green-Wood Cemetery in ...

BROOKLYN -- Green-Wood Cemetery's death-education program doesn't sugar-coat mortality. "We know that we're all going to die and we want resources and information, and the people who can be on your ...

NEW YORK -- The NYPD has determined that gravestones damaged at a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn were not vandalized. Police investigated the reports of possible vandalism at Washington Cemetery, a ...