Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery: New York’s Buried Treasure (including a free color map)
By Green-Wood Cemetery historian Jeff Richman
The
preeminent resource to Green-Wood’s over-170-year history and its
famous and infamous residents. Written by Green-Wood’s historian,
Jeffrey I. Richman, this second-edition, lavishly illustrated hardcover
volume, with 90 color and 379 black and white images, features the
visual delights of The Green-Wood Cemetery: its park-like beauty, trees
and ponds, sculptures and buildings by the leading artists and
architects of their time, as well as some of the outstanding art that
the people who reside at Green-Wood created.
This absorbing book
is equally about the larger-than-life individuals for whom The
Green-Wood Cemetery is a final resting place, and their funny,
outrageous, tragic, triumphal, creative, scandalous, murderous and
heroic lives. With its share of the famous (Leonard Bernstein, Charles
Ebbets, Samuel F.B. Morse, Peter Cooper, Horace Greeley, Louis Comfort
Tiffany, Henry Ward Beecher, Elias Howe, Jean-Michel Basquiat and
“Wizard of Oz” Frank Morgan, to name a few) and the infamous (“Boss”
Tweed, Willam "Bill the Butcher" Poole, Albert Anastasia, Joey Gallo and
Johnny Torrio), Green-Wood is a historical adventure. Begin your
adventure with this book. (Hardcover, The Green-Wood Historic Fund,
Second Edition 2008)





