In 1999, the not-for-profit Green-Wood Historic Fund was founded to help expand the cemetery's efforts in historic ...

There were no trees near my father’s grave in the Little Valley (N.Y.) Memorial Cemetery. My mother was hoping for some shade ...

Graves aren’t the only things underground at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Also buried: a new system for storing water to ...

It’s like SantaCon, but you dress up like Fran Lebowitz, according to the event's cofounder, Jane August. Now in its fourth ...

A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion ...

A Black burial ground in Staten Island, named in honor of Frederick Douglas, has officially received landmark status.

Gothamist reported that in the last year, only 6% of visitors to the 9/11 Museum were from New York City. Green-Wood wanted to offer those people a peaceful place to grieve together. The cemetery now ...

Image from Butcher Park was real. Casket of 97-year-old Warren woman who died in New York temporarily situated in the park ...

In response to concerns over climate change and plummeting biodiversity, a shift is afoot in the city’s parks. Manicured is ...

College students in upstate New York are digging through ... archaeologist Joseph Diamond discovered the cemetery’s location from an 1870 map while conducting a city survey.

Nancy Brockman was known around Silverton as a bigger-than-life character. So, it should have been no surprise that she ...