Green-Wood Cemetery tour digs up fun facts
One of the liveliest places in Brooklyn is a spot where the dead are buried.
Green-Wood Cemetery, a historic 478-acre spot where 600,000 people are interred and where you’ll find the final resting places of everyone from Boss Tweed to Leonard Bernstein, is also a place where you’ll see tour buses.
The Green-Wood Fund, a group dedicated to preserving the cemetery’s monuments, offers tours of the place. Visitors are picked up near the main gate on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in buses that look like trolleys and are driven around the cemetery to see headstones and mausoleums of prominent people, get a view of architecture and take in the bucolic setting.
June Johnson, a Bay Ridge civic leader who is a member of Community Board 10, organized a tour on Oct. 25 for a group of her friends. “I thought it would be a nice thing to do. The weather is beautiful and the cemetery has so many interesting things in it,” Johnson told the Brooklyn Eagle.