Spring blooms at The Green-Wood Cemetery
As more smoke than usual poured out of smokestacks in the cemetery’s crematorium, photographer Tom Hilton chose to focus his camera lens on the spring blooms at Green-Wood. In wordless tribute, we offer those here, as the dogwoods, redbuds and other beautiful flora thrive in this rare National Landmark treasure.
Incorporated in 1838, The Green-Wood Cemetery stretches across 478 pastoral acres in Brooklyn and boasts extraordinary works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture, statuary and architecture, and is home to thousands of historic figures. Green-Wood has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.