The Green-Wood Cemetery
Cemetery on a Revolutionary War hillside, with Gothic brownstone gates and sweeping city views.
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This guide to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn opens with the sweeping Gothic grounds that drew half a million visitors a year in the 1860s, more than Niagara Falls, and helped inspire the creation of Central Park. It then turns to Boss Tweed, the Tammany Hall power broker who skimmed tens of millions from the city before his conviction, and who died in a Ludlow Street jail cell in 1878. Walk the carriage paths that once drew Victorian picnickers on their afternoon strolls among the headstones.
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