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A collection of 7 issues

Real Estate Roundup: Spooky Abodes

‘Tis the season for the spooky and scary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6V2oCX3Hn4]However, deals that will knock you dead are a year-round special that BKLYNER specializes in. Scroll down to descend into damned good deals. Greenwood Cemetery [/?s=greenwood+cemetery]is home to many of Brooklyn’s

The Hidden Cemetery In Prospect Park

Photo by Shannon Geis / Park Slope StoopDid you know that roughly 2,000 people are buried in Prospect Park [https://www.prospectpark.org/get-involved/survey/]? If you head down West Drive, just past the 15th Street entrance to Center Drive, you will see the entrance to a private cemetery that

A Sweet Deal: Green-Wood Cemetery Gets Into The Honey Business

A first-time visitor to Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/], the National Historic Landmark located just south of Prospect Park that was founded in 1938, will immediately notice how serene the space is. These days, you can stand in a lush, secluded spot near the 39th Street border and hear

This Valentine’s Day, Mix Love And History At Green-Wood Cemetery

Photo by Colin Winterbottom, via Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/event/love-set-in-stone-a-valentines-trolley-tour/]. What is everyone doing for Valentine’s Day? If you’d like love mixed with history this Saturday, February 14, the Green-Wood Cemetery may be a good place to go. The cemetery is offering “Love Set in

Photographer Tod Seelie Captures Green-Wood’s Hidden City

Fascinated by Green-Wood’s catacombs, but can’t shake enough of the heebeegeebees to tour them in person? Gothamist published a series of photographs [http://gothamist.com/2013/06/10/photos_take_a_tour_of_green-woods_c.php#photo-7] by Tod Seelie [http://blog.suckapants.com] on Monday that offers

Controversial Civic Virtue Statue Moving to Green-Wood

The most traveled statue in NYC will soon be settling down in Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/]. Designed in 1920 by Frederick MacMonnies as an allegory of virtue over vice, the statue, which made its debut at City Hall during the height of the women’s suffrage movement, faced

Nelson Demands City Pay For Cemetery Damage

Photo of the damage by Yana Zhuravel, whose grandmother's tombstone is on the bottom right.The bill to taxpayers from the city’s botched blizzard response continues to go up, with the government being prodded to cover the cost of Washington Cemetery gravestones toppled during snow removal [/washington-cemetery-gravestones-broken-sanitation-department/