The Green-Wood Cemetery, to celebrate its 160th birthday, is very proud to announce the publication of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery: New York’s Buried Treasure. "I have been haunting the cemetery for the last eleven years; this book is the product of many, many days spent wandering, researching and writing." To order a copy of this book please click here.

Green-Wood Cemetery is one of the world’s great cemeteries. Founded in 1838 as the third rural cemetery in America, it was a leading tourist attraction by the 1850’s, attracting 500,000 visitors per year. By the 1860’s, the New York Times was reporting that “It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park, and to sleep with his fathers in GreenWood.” From 1850 to 1900, no American cemetery interrered more political leaders than Green-Wood. They came by the thousands and the hundreds of thousands, first as tourists, then as permanent residents: Civil War generals, murder victims, victims of mass tragedies, inventors, artists, the famous, and the infamous. And they have continued to come to Green-Wood Cemetery, bringing their lively stories and dark secrets with them. In all, almost 600,000 people have chosen GreenWood as their final resting place.

This 256 page book, printed by Stinehour Press, one of the finest printers in America, is for everyone who enjoys a good story about New York, its people, and their legacy. Lavishly illustrated, with 90 color and 379 black and white images, it features the great visual delights of 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 Cemetery created. But this is also a book about New York’s animated and lively past. It is about the absorbing individuals for whom Green-Wood Cemetery is a final resting place, and their funny, outrageous, tragic, triumphal, creative, scandalous, murderous, and heroic lives. Green-Wood Cemetery has its share of the famous (Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ebbets, Samuel F.B. Morse, Peter Cooper, Horace Greeley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Henry Ward Beecher, General Henry Halleck, Lola Montez, Laura Keene, Elias Howe, and “Wizard of Oz” Frank Morgan, to name a few) and the infamous (“Boss” Tweed, Albert Anastasia, Joey Gallo, and Johnny Torrio). This is your chance to enjoy their stories.