Green-Wood Cemetery named NHL

Green-Wood Cemetery has finally been givien National Historic Landmark status. Great for the cemetry, great for the communiy, great for the Boro.

The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY – The 478-acre cemetery is the largest and among the most influential of the early American rural cemeteries, carefully sited with dramatic views of the city and harbor below. Established in 1838, Green-Wood has the most extensive and intact landscape created following the principles of Andrew Jackson Downing, the most prominent landscape architect of the antebellum period. It is outstanding for its cohesive, picturesque character, integrated Gothic Revival architecture, and high integrity.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne today announced the designation of National Historic Landmarks in California, Florida, New York, Georgia and Nevada in recognition of their importance in interpreting the heritage and history of the United States. The sites range from the Florida home of a Pulitzer Prize author, to a school dormitory in Georgia important in the civil rights movement, to one of the most significant experiments in post-war American domestic architecture in California.

http://www.doi.gov/news/06_News_Releases/060927.html

I love that place. Some of the little hidden areas with crypts on the hillside are about as close to middle earth as I've ever seen.

Great poll... the official home of this post is the new Greenwood Heights message board at http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=26

Also, did you see the thread about bikes being banned in Green-Wood Cemetery?

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2654

The New York Times picked up on the thread, and ended up running a piece about it.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30C1EFA3D5A0C708DDDA10894DE404482

Here is a letter to the editor from the president of the cemetery:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E5DA103EF934A1575BC0A9609C8B63

Subject: NHL

NHL?
Any hockey players buried there?
Charles Ebbets, as far as we know, was baseball only!

i was there to visit the famous tropical birds of brooklyn!

Subject: keep on postin'

Glad to see folks likin' the thread. Since I live across the street form the wonderful site...most proud. Nite.

I love the cemetary- but I thought this thread was announcing that they were finally getting an NHL franchise after all these years of waiting

I don't know if he counts as a "loved one," but I visited one of my ancestors, General Henry Wager Halleck. He was a general in the Civil War, and briefly in command of the Union Army prior to Grant's arrival on the scene. He was never much of a warmonger, and was known as "Gutless Halleck."

He's also buried just down a few plots from J.M. Basquiat.

a co-worker of mine, jeff richman, is the green-wood historian and gives these really amazing tours of the place. highly recommended. [youtube]

Boygabriel wrote: I love the cemetary- but I thought this thread was announcing that they were finally getting an NHL franchise after all these years of waiting

Be careful. You'll have Ratner looking into eminant domain.

"Domain of the Dead". Sounds like a Romero movie.

By the way, does anyone here know a Jeff Richman?

Subject: Re: keep on postin'

lostingreenwoodhts wrote: Glad to see folks likin' the thread. Since I live across the street form the wonderful site...most proud. Nite.

Yes, but do you have a zombie contingency plan?

Subject: no Z worries

As a much smarter poster pointed out on Brownstoner:

from Rocknrope:

Just FYI, one of the safest places to be in the event of a zombie outbreak is a cemetery. Contrary to popular opinion, it is only the recently deceased and unburied that can become the undead. Given that these undead may visit places that they recall during their life, a cemetery would be on the bottom of the list. So....

Ha!

Quiet neighbors, we like 'em that way.

I've gone on my own, and to events. So I chose the latter in the poll, since I figured that one would have less responses.

Yeee haw. The NHL pol is back.

Cast your vote about Green-Wood Cemetery!

45 so far. Common'...we need a couple hundred here!