About Green-Wood Cemetery

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Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York. Like other early rural cemeteries, Green-Wood was founded in a time of rapid urbanization when churchyards in New York City were becoming overcrowded.

Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, the cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, between Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park. The architecture critic Paul Goldberger, quoting The New York Times from 1866, observed that "it is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-wood".

Source From: Wikipedia

South Slope, Vista Avenue, NYC, Kings County, New York, United States of America, 11232

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Ninth Avenue station

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Weir Greenhouse

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14th Regiment Armory, Brooklyn

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United States Post Office (Kensington, Brooklyn)

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15th Street–Prospect Park station

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Park Slope Jewish Center

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Storehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply Base

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Former 18th Police Precinct Station House and Stable

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Sunset Park, Brooklyn

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Brooklyn Army Terminal

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Prospect Park (Brooklyn)

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Grecian Shelter

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William B. Cronyn House

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Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street station

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Prospect Park South

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Litchfield Villa

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Temple Beth El of Borough Park

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Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park

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Old Stone House (Brooklyn)

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Beverley Road station

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Ocean Parkway Jewish Center

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Park Slope Historic District

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Old First Reformed Church

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Albemarle–Kenmore Terraces Historic District

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Public Bath No. 7

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Erasmus Hall High School

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Flatbush Town Hall

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Lefferts Manor Historic District

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United States Post Office (Flatbush, Brooklyn)

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