GREENWOOD HEIGHTS — Make no mistake about it: Brooklyn’s Memorial Day Parade, slated to take place on May 27, is a herculean undertaking. Acknowledged to be the oldest extant Memorial Day Parade in the U.S., Brooklyn’s first Memorial Day Parade took place in 1867, according to the parade committee. That said, it may be hard […]
GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to the film “I Saw the TV Glow.” Cemeteries aren’t often the chosen location for interviews, but the place holds particular meaning to Schoenbrun. Built in […]
Two historic Brooklyn institutions have topped the list of New York City’s most “underrated” landmarks by Viator, a TripAdvisor company. Green-Wood Cemetery (Greenwood Heights/South Slope) and Plymouth Church (Brooklyn Heights) came in at numbers one and two after Viator’s experts analyzed reviews on TripAdvisor and compared them to the number of hashtags they received on […]