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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The NYC Landmark Preservation Commission has officially designated Frederick Douglass Memorial Park on Staten Island as a historic landmark.

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

Researchers found 118 infants, babies and children were buried in unmarked graves at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fairview ...

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