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Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure
Everybody loves a great story, and Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has many of New York's great stories to tell. Everyone who was anybody in nineteenth century New York wanted to be buried there, and they were. As The New York Times succinctly put in it 1866, "It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the (Central) Park, and to s...more
Hardcover, 241 pages
Published
May 31st 1998
by Green-Wood Cemetery
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This book has a short introduction describing the history of Greenwood cemetery in the context of the development of Brookyln and Manhattan as well as in the context of the history of cemetery design in general. The majority of the book is a series of well-chosen anecdotes about the various interesting residents of the cemetery; the guy who invented the hot dog, the actress at Ford theatre who held Lincoln in her arms right after he was shot; the guy who originally penned "Peter Piper picked a p...more
In the 19th century, the two greatest tourist attractions in North America were Niagara Falls and Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. This well-researched and fully illustrated coffee table book will make you feel that you are there.
And what a place it is! Green-Wood is the final home of Samuel Morse, Leonard Bernstein, Jean Michel Basquiat, Boss Tweed, Currier and Ives, F.A.O. Schwartz, Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as spiritualists, artists, soldiers, silent film stars, Native Americans, sports h...more
And what a place it is! Green-Wood is the final home of Samuel Morse, Leonard Bernstein, Jean Michel Basquiat, Boss Tweed, Currier and Ives, F.A.O. Schwartz, Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as spiritualists, artists, soldiers, silent film stars, Native Americans, sports h...more
So detailed, so many wonderful stories about the people that are buried there...it was like a two hundred year history of the people of Brooklyn.
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