The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Green-Wood Cemetery
Before Central Park, this was where New Yorkers came for green space — a 478-acre Victorian 'rural cemetery' so popular it helped inspire the public-park movement. The Revolutionary War's Battle of Brooklyn was fought across its highest hill. Buried here: Boss Tweed, Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Civil War generals. It's a history of the city told in monuments.
An 1838 rural-cemetery masterpiece — Tiffany, Basquiat, Boss Tweed, and the Battle of Brooklyn's high ground.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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