Special Event

Scattered throughout New York, there are thousands of memorials and monuments honoring people, deeds and events that have left indelible marks on our City. However, for the 134 souls who died on the morning of December 16, 1960 when United Airlines Flight 826 and TWA Flight 266 collided over the skies of Staten Island, there ... Read more

Sunday, January 30, 2011 We are especially proud to present our Greenwood Heights neighbor and artist, Saul Chernick. With his unique ink-on-paper style, Chernick creates “zany, consummately skillful drawings” (The New York Times) with “the episodic and atmospheric feel of a gothic graphic novel.” Chernick, a big fan of Green-Wood who often strolls the grounds ... Read more

Saturday, February 12, 2011 On February 14, 1884, two days after a young Theodore Roosevelt became a new father, he suffered an unimaginable tragedy. His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, succumbed to typhoid fever and was followed in death just eleven hours later by his wife Alice, who died of Bright’s disease. How T.R. coped with ... Read more

Sunday, March 13, 2011 “Exquisite reproductions of the maps display 18th-century America as Washington saw it.“ —The New York Times Friend of Green-Wood and best-selling author Barnet Schecter talks about his most recent and widely praised compendium of the maps George Washington both drew and purchased. The book crafts a unique portrait of the Father ... Read more

Saturday, April 9, 2011 How often do you get the chance to hear one of Bob Dylan’s earliest inspirations? Danny Kalb has been described as “up there with the best of all blues legends” by the owner of Village’s iconic Café Au Go Go. “I’ve worked with the greatest of all time and he is ... Read more

Saturday, April 16, 2011 Free Mulch! Free Tree! You bring us a bag, we’ll give you the mulch. (Or come early enough and you’ll get a free Green-Wood tote bag, too!) Green-Wood salutes—and supports—gardeners from near and far! Come to Green-Wood to pick up free mulch for your garden (and ours is top-grade!), free advice ... Read more

This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly. Plus wine, cheese, and Q&A with the film's producer and a special guest TBA. Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over 20 years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the ... Read more

Saturday, May 14, 2011 We need you! As we prepare for the celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, we need as many hands as we can get. Help us place candles on the graves of our Civil War veterans. Spend a spring day at Green-Wood and know that you’re helping to honor the ... Read more

Saturday, May 28, 2011 Gathered from private collections, as well as from our own Green-Wood Historic Fund collections, this exhibition features fascinating memorabilia from the Civil War, much of it never before displayed in public. See, up close, two authentic Civil War cannons, life-sized zinc sculptures of Union soldiers, and genuine Civil War uniforms; hear ... Read more

Sunday, May 29, 2011 We need you! As we prepare for the celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, we need as many hands as we can get. Help us place candles on the graves of our Civil War veterans. Spend a spring day at Green-Wood and know that you’re helping to honor the ... Read more