Historic Trolley Tours
2017-09-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-09-17 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-09-24 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-10-08 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-10-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2017-10-18 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Credit: Robert Denbo
Experience the most magnificent and historic 478 acres in New York City. Join our expert tour guides to hear fascinating stories of Green-Wood’s permanent residents, see breathtaking views of Manhattan, tread where George Washington and his troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn, and much more.
Trolley Tour Schedule:
Sunday, Sept. 3 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, Sept. 10 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, Sept. 17 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, Sept. 24 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, Oct. 8 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, Oct. 15 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, Oct. 22 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, Oct. 29 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Nov. 1 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, Nov. 5 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, Nov. 12 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1 PM: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, Nov. 19 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 1 PM: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, Nov. 26 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 1 PM: Discover Green-Wood
$15 for members of Green-Wood. / $20 for non-members. Seating is limited. Trolley tours routinely sell out. We strongly suggest that you reserve tickets in advance to ensure a spot for your preferred day!
Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant. In order to accommodate a wheelchair or other mobility aids on the trolley, arrangements must be made in advance. Please call (718) 210-3080, ext. 1. Please note that portions of the tour take place outside the trolley, however attendees may stay seated in the trolley if they wish. Please contact the Historic Fund for more information.
For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Trolley tours are run rain or shine, with the exception of dangerous conditions as determined by Green-Wood. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
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Not a Member?
New or renewing members are entitled to one free tour ticket a year! This could be a free ride: Click here for all of our membership levels and information. Free tickets must be arranged by phone. Please call (718)210-3080 to redeem.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

(Sold Out) Death Need Not Be Fatal: Book Talk
2017-09-12 18:30 - 20:30
This event is sold out. Make sure you never miss out on tickets again! Green-Wood members get access to tickets weeks before the general public. Join today.

New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt joins us for a very special literary evening to discuss his new work Death Need Not be Fatal, a personal memoir that shows readers how to live life to its fullest, how to grow old without acting old, and how to die without regret. McCourt recounts the tragedies that have shaped his life: the deaths of his sister and twin brothers; the real story behind Angela’s famous ashes; and a poignant account of the death of the man who left his mother, brothers, and him to nearly die in squalor. Yet, he finds humor in all that life has thrown him so as to look at the prospect of his own demise with emotional clarity and insight. McCourt will be introduced by the book’s co-author Brian McDonald.

McCourt was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931, but grew up in Limerick, Ireland. He returned to the United States at the age of 20 where he says he “did a bit of dishwashing, long-shoring, military service, bartending, stage acting, and saloon owning.” His illustrative career also included stints as a political activist and a 2006 candidate for governor of the state of New York. In 2016, McCourt was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Irish-American Writers.

This book talk is a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event.

Free to attend, reservations required.

2017 GREEN-WOOD BENEFIT
2017-09-13 18:00 - 22:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Join the Green-Wood Historic Fund as it presents the tenth annual De Witt Clinton Award for Excellence.
The award honors the legacy of 19th-century New York Governor De Witt Clinton (who also served as mayor of New York City, state senator, assemblyman and United States senator), now a venerated permanent resident at Green-Wood. Enjoy cocktails and dinner as we honor Dozier Hasty and Nancy Havens-Hasty and feature the restoration of the Weir Greenhouse and our vision for Green-Wood’s future.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
At 6:00 PM
Green-Wood
25th Street at Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
Tickets start at $300. For information, contact Lisa Alpert at 718-210-3011 or lisa_alpert@green-wood.com.

(Sold Out) Birding Basics
2017-09-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2017-09-17 10:00 - 12:00
This event is sold out. Make sure you never miss out on tickets again! Green-Wood members get access to tickets weeks before the general public. Join today.

Birding is one of this country’s fastest growing hobbies, and there is no place better to enjoy it in Brooklyn than at Green-Wood! This two-part course will teach the beginner birder the why, where, how, and what of birding. With over 250 species of birds residing in, or passing through, the Big Apple every year, learn where to look for, and how to identify, many of the species in this diverse group of animals. Our second session will end with a walk through the Cemetery, applying some of the lessons learned in the classroom.

$35 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $40 for non-members. One ticket secures a spot for both sessions, Saturday September 16th and Sunday September 17th from 10am to 12pm.

For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Cubans at Green-Wood
2017-09-16 13:00 - 15:00
Since it opened in 1838, Green-Wood has been the resting place of myriad immigrant communities who made a new homes for themselves and their families in New York City. To honor this rich legacy, join Professor Lisandro Perez and Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman for a special trolley tour exploring famed Cuban immigrants of the 19th century who count among the cemetery’s permanent residents. You will explore the mausoleum of sugar planter and refiner Miguel de Aldama, who sought to overthrow Spanish control of Cuba, and that of the Acea family, one of the wealthiest coffee-planting families on the island.

Along the tour, your guides will share stories of politics, commercial enterprise, and tragedy relating to Cubans interred here.

$20 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $25 for non-members

For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

(Sold Out) Dead Distillers Trolley Tour
2017-09-16 16:00 - 19:00
This event is sold out. Make sure you never miss out on tickets again! Green-Wood members get access to tickets weeks before the general public. Join today.

Green-Wood is teaming up with our friends at Kings County Distillery to delve into the storied past of distilling in Brooklyn. The afternoon kicks off with a trolley tour of the cemetery’s “permanent residents” with whiskey connections, including the one and only casualty of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the late 1860s and early 1870s. Afterward, the trolley will head to Kings County Distillery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where visitors will see first-hand how whiskey is made and enjoy a tasting of four delectable varieties.

This tour is based upon the newly published book “Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws who Made American Spirits” by Colin Spoelman, co-founder and Master Distiller at Kings County Distillery. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the distillery.

You must be 21 or older to participate in this tour; I.D. required.

$35 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $40 for non-members

Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant. In order to accommodate a wheelchair or other mobility device on the trolley, advance arrangements must be made. Please call (718) 210-3080, ext. 1. Please note that portions of the tour take place outside the trolley and may require exiting the vehicle on multiple occasions. Please contact the Historic Fund for more information.

For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Trolley tours are run rain or shine, with the exception of dangerous conditions as determined by Green-Wood. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

The Secret Mausoleum Club
2017-09-16 21:00 - 23:45 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
A peaceful hush falls over Green-Wood each night. In the darkness, centuries-old monuments stand guard over those laid to permanently rest within. This year, Atlas Obscura and Green-Wood Cemetery are collaborating to present The Secret Mausoleum Club, as we open the cemetery’s historic gates and selected mausoleums for an extraordinary series of after-hours explorations through history.
Each Secret Mausoleum Club evening is specially curated to celebrate legends, legacies, and lore, featuring a different mausoleum each time. Clues shared before the event each month will help guests decipher the evening’s theme. Enjoy an inspiring performance, a historic persona or two, and surprising discoveries!
To purchase tickets, visit Atlas Obscura’s website.
For member discount to Secret Mausoleum Club, contact Green-Wood’s events department: events@green-wood.com

Cremation: History and Modern Process
2017-09-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
What is cremation? How long have we been doing it, and how does it work? Amy Cunningham, death educator, leads this presentation of cremation’s history and its impact on present-day and future funerals. This engaging and sometimes even light-hearted exploration will also touch on how to choose an end-of-life mode of disposition that expresses your own beliefs and values.

Afterward, you will have the opportunity to visit the crematory with Gema LaBoccetta, Green-Wood’s Crematory Manager, then chat with Amy and other attendees at a short reception.

Free to attend, RSVP recommended. Please register using the Eventbrite box below.

This program takes place in our Modern Chapel just to the right after passing through the Gothic Arches at the main entrance. All events will take place rain or shine. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here for free registration.

Members-Only Opening Reception
2017-09-22 18:00 - 20:00
Explore Among Trees and Stones before it opens to the public at a special reception in honor of artist Matthew Jensen.

The evening will include a brief curator’s talk, refreshments, great company, and twilight tours of the cemetery.

The reception will take place at Green-Wood’s Fort Hamilton entrance, located at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place, easily accessible on the F and G trains at Fort Hamilton Station.

Free to attend, reservations required.

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Artist Walk: Discovering Trees and Stones
2017-09-23 12:00 - 15:00
There is no better way to enjoy the impressive array of fall foliage than by exploring New York City’s best kept greenspace.

Beginning at the Fort Hamilton Gate House, artist Matthew Jensen will guide visitors on three-hour walks to discover Green-Wood’s rich collection of majestic trees and historic monuments. Jensen will be accompanied on each walk by a member of Green-Wood’s staff who will share their own behind-the-scenes experience and knowledge of the cemetery. No walk will be the same; come once, twice or three times for unexpected encounters!

Each walk meets at Green-Wood’s Fort Hamilton entrance, located at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place, easily accessible on the F and G trains at Fort Hamilton Station.

$20 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $25 for non-members

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Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Birding in Peace
2017-09-24 06:30 - 08:00, 2017-10-08 07:00 - 08:30
Sundays
September 10 & 24, 6:30 – 8:00 AM
October 8 & 22, 7:00 – 8:30 AM
November 5 & 19, 6:30 – 8:00 AM
Before our gates open to the general public, birding expert Rob Jett leads these peaceful Sunday morning walking tours to discover the many birds that call Green-Wood home. By September, all our nesting birds’ offspring will be on their own. Returning warblers will be in their less flamboyant fall plumage. Large numbers of blackbirds, flycatchers, sparrows, vireos, and swallows will also be passing through. By October, waterfowl are returning, and we’ll look for raptors heading south. November will bring back our overwintering denizen from the north.
$10 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $15 for non-members
For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Fall Family Scavenger Hunt
2017-09-24 12:00 - 15:00
Green-Wood and Park Slope Parents (www.parkslopeparents.com) are partnering together to present a fun-filled exploration of one of Brooklyn’s most famous landmarks. Enjoy a crisp autumn afternoon with activities, crafts, and refreshments in a picturesque greenspace. Decipher mysterious symbols on historic monuments, take in the view from the highest point in Brooklyn (where a famous battle of the American Revolution was fought), peek inside elaborately decorated mausoleums with exquisite stained-glass windows, and go on a scavenger hunt discovering Green-Wood’s famous permanent residents.

Open to families with children of all ages. Cost of admission is for the entire family!

$10 for members of Green-Wood, BHS, and Park Slope Parents / $15 for non-members

For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
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Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Obit
2017-09-26 18:30 - 20:30
It’s a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly funny bunch. Ten hours before newspapers hit neighborhood doorsteps—and these days, ten minutes before news hits the web—an obit writer is racing against deadline to sum up a long and newsworthy life in under 1000 words. The details of these lives are then deposited into the cultural memory amid the daily beat of war, politics, and football scores.

Join Green-Wood for a special screening of Obit in the Historic Chapel and a Q&A with director Vanessa Gould and former The New York Times obituary writer Doug Martin.

$10 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $15 for non-members

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Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Open Doors
2017-10-01 12:00 - 16:00
It’s back! One of Green-Wood’s most popular events returns with an afternoon of exploring some of the cemetery’s most impressive and elaborate 19th-century mausoleums. Venture inside the elaborate bronze gates of these ancient stone structures to explore stunning examples of Green-Wood’s distinct architecture. At each location, docents will offer a glimpse into the lives of the personalities who now rest in these opulent edifices.

Comfortable footwear is recommended. Special maps with a recommended route are provided at check-in at Green-Wood’s main entrance.

$20 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $25 for non-members

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Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Twilight Tour
2017-10-06 17:30 - 19:30
This event is sold out. Make sure you never miss out on tickets again! Green-Wood members get access to tickets weeks before the general public. Join today.

Our most popular tour just got better! Inspired by Matthew Jensen’s artist-map for Among Trees and Stone, visitors will enjoy the rare opportunity to explore the quiet beauty of the cemetery bathed in the golden light of the setting sun. Your tour guide will go deeper into the cemetery to reveal 19th-century monuments that often go unnoticed even in broad daylight! The tours ends with a visit to the catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.

Please bring a flashlight to light your way, Green-Wood is very dark at night. Comfortable footwear is recommended.

$20 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $25 for non-members

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Gay Green-Wood
2017-10-07 12:00 - 14:00
Green-Wood celebrates LGBT History month with a special trolley tour illuminating permanent residents who have made a lasting impact on American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. You will visit the graves of important LGBT figures including “It’s Raining Men” co-writer, Paul Jabara; sculptor of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain, Emma Stebbins; activists, Drs. Emery Hetrick and Damien Martin; and Broadway lyricist, Fred Ebb, among others. Tour goers will mark each grave with a rainbow flag.

The tour will be led by the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, a cultural heritage initiative that is documenting LGBT historic sites of significance throughout New York City.The project team, historic preservationists Andrew Dolkart, Ken Lustbader, Jay Shockley, and Amanda Davis, will be joined by Green-Wood’s Manager of Preservation and Restoration, Neela Wickremesinghe, who will share the ways these sites are preserved through restoration and preservation efforts.

$25 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $30 for non-members

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

(Sold Out) Dead Distillers Trolley Tour
2017-10-07 15:00 - 18:00
This event is sold out. Make sure you never miss out on tickets again! Green-Wood members get access to tickets weeks before the general public. Join today.

Green-Wood is teaming up with our friends at Kings County Distillery to delve into the storied past of distilling in Brooklyn. The afternoon kicks off with a trolley tour of the cemetery’s “permanent residents” with whiskey connections, including the one and only casualty of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the late 1860s and early 1870s. Afterward, the trolley will head to Kings County Distillery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where visitors will see first-hand how whiskey is made and enjoy a tasting of four delectable varieties.

This tour is based upon the newly published book “Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws who Made American Spirits” by Colin Spoelman, co-founder and Master Distiller at Kings County Distillery. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the distillery.

You must be 21 or older to participate in this tour; I.D. required.

$35 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $40 for non-members

Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant. In order to accommodate a wheelchair or other mobility device on the trolley, advance arrangements must be made. Please call (718) 210-3080, ext. 1. Please note that portions of the tour take place outside the trolley and may require exiting the vehicle on multiple occasions. Please contact the Historic Fund for more information.

For this program you will check in at the Gothic Arches, right at the main entrance. Trolley tours are run rain or shine, with the exception of dangerous conditions as determined by Green-Wood. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

(Sold Out) Twilight Tour
2017-10-07 17:30 - 19:30

(Sold Out) From Here to Eternity: A Book Talk with Caitlin Doughty
2017-10-10 19:00 - 21:00
This event is sold out. Make sure you never miss out on tickets again! Green-Wood members get access to tickets weeks before the general public. Join today.
Join us on a special October evening to welcome New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Doughty to celebrate the release of her new book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death. In an illustrated talk, she will recount some of the traditions detailed in the book, which include the Indonesian practice of dressing and living with the dead, the Bolivian practice of natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls); and the Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones’ bones from cremation ashes.
Following the talk, get your book signed while enjoying refreshments. Caitlin Doughty is known for advocating for death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices. She is the creator of the web series “Ask a Mortician”, founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the bestselling book Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her funeral home Undertaking LA.
This book talk is organized and presented in partnership with Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier of Morbid Anatomy Library.
Book (a $24.95 value) plus talk ticket: $30
Talk ticket only: $5 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $10 for nonmembers
Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Into the Veil
2017-10-13 20:00 - 23:30, 2017-10-14 20:00 - 23:30
Back by popular demand! Join GreenWood and Atlas Obscura for a night of exploration and discovery. Navigating below the silhouettes of thousands of starlit trees, let your curiosity lead you through winding pathways, revealing hidden spaces of music, history, and storytelling. Performances, readings, and other activities will unfold throughout the cemetery. Where will your night lead?
Go even deeper into the veil with a VIP Experience! Promptly at 6:30 PM, your hosts will greet you at Green-Wood’s gothic arches and whisk you off the beaten path to experience a bit more magic and mystery. The VIP Experience is limited to 150 participants each night and is inclusive of refreshments.

“Cemetery as exploratory theater” -New York Times
“If you’ve never been…my God, make a date, go there now. It is just the most astonishing public space I’ve ever seen.” -David Plotz, President, Atlas Obscura

Advance Ticket Required. This event is strictly 21+; I.D. required.

To purchase tickets, visit Atlas Obscura’s website.

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Twilight Tour
2017-10-15 17:00 - 19:00
Our most popular tour just got better! Inspired by Matthew Jensen’s artist-map for Among Trees and Stone, visitors will enjoy the rare opportunity to explore the quiet beauty of the cemetery bathed in the golden light of the setting sun. Your tour guide will go deeper into the cemetery to reveal 19th-century monuments that often go unnoticed even in broad daylight! The tours ends with a visit to the catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.

Please bring a flashlight to light your way, Green-Wood is very dark at night. Comfortable footwear is recommended.

$20 for members of Green-Wood and BHS / $25 for non-members

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Click here for all of our membership levels and information.
Already a Member?
Click the “Enter promotional code here (members, use your ID#)” link in the bottom right corner of the ticket box and enter your ID number to apply your ticket discount. Please note that the Senior, Individual and Student membership levels are limited to only one Member Ticket per event (for additional tickets, please purchase at the regular price).
Questions?
Don’t know your Member ID number? Not sure which ticket or membership type to order? Call 718-210-3080 or email contactus@green-wood.com with any questions.

Death Café
2017-10-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
The Death Café is inspired by the centuries-old European salon (or café), an informal gathering to discuss philosophical, political or scientific ideas. In 2011, British entrepreneur Jon Underwood brought this concept to discussions of the most universal topic of all: death. Underwood’s intention was to provide an opportunity to “increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their lives.” Today, there are over 4,400 Death Cafes in 26 countries around the world.
Green-Wood is proud to host monthly gatherings of the Death Café here in our beautiful, modern chapel. Amy Cunningham, death educator and creator of the Brooklyn-based blog TheInspiredFuneral.com, invites participants to share their thoughts and feelings on death. It’s an opportunity for safe and open exchanges, without an agenda. Tea and light snacks are provided.
“A place for people to discuss our inevitable fate.” – Gothamist
“It’s a reversal for American culture, which for a long time has shied away from these conversations.” – Village Voice
“[E]ncouraging people to talk about death more freely and naturally.” – Haaretz
Free to attend, RSVP recommended. Please register using the Eventbrite box below.
This program takes place in our Modern Chapel just to the right after passing through the Gothic Arches at the main entrance. All events will take place rain or shine. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Mobile users: Please tap here for free registration.
