Memorial Day Commemoration
2015-05-25 11:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
11:00 AM
Honor March
Join re-enactors and musicians in a parade to Green-Wood’s Civil War Soldiers’ Lot for a ceremony including remarks, a names recitation by decendants of Civil War veterans, an artillery salute, and more.
Free.

2:30 PM
Annual Memorial Day Concert
Bring a blanket and enjoy this free early summer performance – a NYC favorite. The concert features the ISO Symphonic Band, founded in 1995 to sponsor talented students throughout New York City and led by ISO’s inimitable founder and conductor Brian P. Worsdale.

Each year we feature the works of Green-Wood’s permanent residents Fred Ebb, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Leonard Bernstein, and many others. Local vendors will be on site to sell food and drink all day.

The concert is a free event, but please register here so that we can gauge response. We encourage you to consider making an optional donation with your reservation, to ensure our ability to continue to offer these events free of charge.
Mobile users: Please tap here for concert registration.

5:00PM
Special Memorial Day Trolley Tour (SOLD OUT)
A special trolley tour with Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman begins right after the Memorial Day concert, featuring Green-Wood highlights and veteran connections. Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant.

All events will take place rain or shine. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

(Sold Out) Historic Trolley Tour
2015-05-27 13:00 - 15:00
Credit: Robert Denbo
This trolley tour date is sold out. Please scroll down to purchase tickets for another date, or click here for our full event listings.
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, April 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, April 29: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 6: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 13: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 20: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 27: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 31: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday June 3: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday June 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 14: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 17: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 24: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 28: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 1: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 8: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, July 12: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 15: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 22: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, July 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 29: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 5: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 9: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 12: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 19: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 30: Discover Green-Wood
Click here for more information on Green-Wood’s rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.
$10 for members of Green-Wood. / $15 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. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Get a free ticket with a membership at left and purchase additional Member Discount Tickets if desired. 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) Historic Trolley Tour
2015-05-31 13:00 - 15:00
Credit: Robert Denbo
The trolley tour on this date is sold out. Please scroll down to purchase tickets for a different date, or click here to return to our event listings.
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, April 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, April 29: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 6: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 13: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 20: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 27: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 31: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday June 3: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday June 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 14: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 17: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 24: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 28: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 1: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 8: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, July 12: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 15: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 22: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, July 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 29: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 5: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 9: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 12: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 19: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 30: Discover Green-Wood
Click here for more information on Green-Wood’s rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.
$10 for members of Green-Wood. / $15 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. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Get a free ticket with a membership at left and purchase additional Member Discount Tickets if desired. 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) Dark Wonderland
2015-06-04 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-12 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-13 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-26 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-27 19:30 - 22:00
Tickets for all dates of Dark Wonderland are sold out. No tickets will be available at the door.

& present
DARK WONDERLAND
A Nighttime Festival of Visionary Performance
June 2015 * Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays * 7:30 – 10:00 p.m.

Take a journey down the rabbit hole, using Green-Wood’s 478 acres as a spectacular theatrical backdrop. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, we present a modern take on the idea of wonderland – a Fabled City, a place of dizzying possibilities and consequences, a world where saints and sinners rest together amidst otherworldly beauty.

Begin your night with twilight refreshments before embarking on a twisting walk down the candlelit pathways of Green-Wood’s nighttime landscape. At the path’s end, visionary artists, all carefully selected by MAPP International Productions, will hold a modern-day looking glass to New York City through stunning presentations in music, dance, and theater. Click here to read the curatorial statement.

Each week will feature a new lineup of dynamic artists. Come multiple nights to see completely different experiences! Upon purchase, you will receive a code to use on discounted tickets for additional weeks of Dark Wonderland. Click here for more information about each weekend’s roster.

Green-Wood is proud to partner with MAPP International Productions, a nonprofit producer of major performing arts projects that raise critical consciousness and spark social change. Dark Wonderland is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Con Edison, and Full Spectrum Experience, Inc.

Advance/Online tickets: $25*
At the door: $30* (will not be available for Sold Out shows)
*$5 discount for members of Green-Wood or the Brooklyn Historical Society

Doors open at 7:00pm. Event begins at 7:30pm.

Important
– A portion of this event is conducted on foot. Mobility is required. Please be cautioned that walk may be hilly – wear comfortable shoes.
– This show is appropriate for ages 18 and up.
– No outside alcohol or food is permitted in the cemetery.
– Please arrive at Green-Wood’s main entrance (25th Street and 5th Avenue) at the specified time
– Chairs and benches are provided and all tickets are General Admission tickets.
– This event is approximately 120 minutes.
– Flash photography is not permitted during the performance.

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

(Sold Out) Dark Wonderland
2015-06-05 19:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-06 19:30 - 22:00
Tickets for all dates of Dark Wonderland are sold out. No tickets will be available at the door.

& present
DARK WONDERLAND
A Nighttime Festival of Visionary Performance
June 2015 * Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays * 7:30 – 10:00 p.m.

Take a journey down the rabbit hole, using Green-Wood’s 478 acres as a spectacular theatrical backdrop. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, we present a modern take on the idea of wonderland – a Fabled City, a place of dizzying possibilities and consequences, a world where saints and sinners rest together amidst otherworldly beauty.

Begin your night with twilight refreshments before embarking on a twisting walk down the candlelit pathways of Green-Wood’s nighttime landscape. At the path’s end, visionary artists, all carefully selected by MAPP International Productions, will hold a modern-day looking glass to New York City through stunning presentations in music, dance, and theater.

Each week will feature a new lineup of dynamic artists. Come multiple nights to see completely different experiences! Upon purchase, you will receive a code to use on discounted tickets for additional weeks of Dark Wonderland. Click here for more information about each weekend’s roster.

Green-Wood is proud to partner with MAPP International Productions, a nonprofit producer of major performing arts projects that raise critical consciousness and spark social change. Dark Wonderland is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Con Edison, and Full Spectrum Experience, Inc.

Advance/Online tickets: $25*
At the door: $30*
*$5 discount for members of Green-Wood or the Brooklyn Historical Society

Doors open at 7:00pm. Event begins at 7:30pm.

Important
– A portion of this event is conducted on foot. Mobility is required. Please be cautioned that walk may be hilly – wear comfortable shoes.
– This show is appropriate for ages 18 and up.
– No outside alcohol or food is permitted in the cemetery.
– Please arrive at Green-Wood’s main entrance (25th Street and 5th Avenue) at the specified time
– Chairs and benches are provided and all tickets are General Admission tickets.
– This event is approximately 120 minutes.
– Flash photography is not permitted during the performance.

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Gay Green-Wood Trolley Tour
2015-06-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Kick off Brooklyn Pride Week (June 8 – 13) in a most unique way, with an LGBT-themed trolley tour of Green-Wood! Tour guide Phil Desiere – who leads tours of Greenwich Village, Central Park, and other NYC sights – will illuminate stories of Green-Wood ‘permanent residents’ who were openly gay, including “It’s Raining Men” co-author Paul Jabara, and others who were probably gay or bisexual, like Violet Oakley, a member of a “Boston marriage.”

Plus you’ll visit the final resting places of those who contributed to LGBT culture in fun, surprising ways, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, the artist and businessman whose fancy New York City atelier is the namesake of gay novelist Truman Capote’s smash hit, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

$15 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$20 for nonmembers.

Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant.

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.

Curator’s Exhibition Tour
2015-06-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Join Green-Wood historian and exhibition curator Jeff Richman for a behind-the-scenes tour of To Bid You All Good Bye: Civil War Stories. Visitors will explore the inspiration behind the exhibition, learn about the process of selecting these compelling stories, and get insights on the exhibition from the curator himself.

Following the exhibition tour, Richman will lead a trolley tour through Green-Wood to visit the gravesites of several individuals highlighted in the exhibition.

$15 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$20 for non-members.

Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant.

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) Historic Trolley Tour
2015-06-14 13:00 - 15:00
Credit: Robert Denbo
The trolley tour on this date is sold out. Please scroll down to purchase tickets for a different date, and click here to return to our event listings.
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, April 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, April 29: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 6: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 13: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 20: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 27: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 31: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday June 3: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday June 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 14: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 17: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 24: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 28: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 1: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 8: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, July 12: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 15: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 22: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, July 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 29: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 5: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 9: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 12: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 19: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 30: Discover Green-Wood
Click here for more information on Green-Wood’s rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.
$10 for members of Green-Wood. / $15 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. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Get a free ticket with a membership at left and purchase additional Member Discount Tickets if desired. 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.

Civilian Stories
2015-06-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Most New Yorkers and Americans never saw combat in the Civil War, but many civilians still contributed to the War effort in meaningful ways. Celebrate those individuals at this program with historian and curator Jeff Richman. For one night only, Green-Wood’s exhibition To Bid You All Good Bye: Civil War Stories will be enhanced – featuring additional stories and objects that particularly pertain to civilian efforts at wartime. Learn of patriotic deeds by New Yorkers including Reverend Gordon Winslow and Rebecca Winslow, who founded the Sanitary Commission to support sick and wounded soldiers; Simeon Chittenden, who paid bounties to 14th Brooklyn recruits from his own funds; Ann Vanderpoel—founder of the Ladies Home Hospital; and many others. New items, including original promotional posters from the Sanitary Fair, will be on display in the exhibition for this day only! Following the exhibition tour, Richman will lead a trolley tour through Green-Wood to visit the resting places of these important Civil War contributors.

$15 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$20 for non-members.

Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant.

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) Moonlight Walking Tour
2015-06-28 20:30 - 22:30 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
by Tony Fischer Photography

This event is sold out. Please click here for our full event listings.

Armed with a flashlight and the full moon’s brilliance, fearless trekkers will explore intriguing tombstones and the haunting catacombs with Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman. Look out for the spirits of illustrious cemetery residents like Boss Tweed, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The skeptical can simply enjoy the frisson of nighttime skulking, accompanied by live accordion music. Please bring a flashlight to light your way.

$15 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$20 for non-members.

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

(Sold Out) Historic Trolley Tour
2015-07-08 13:00 - 15:00
Credit: Robert Denbo
This tour date is sold out. Please scroll down to purchase tickets for another tour date.
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, April 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, April 29: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 6: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 13: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 20: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 27: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 31: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday June 3: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday June 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 14: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 17: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 24: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 28: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 1: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 8: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, July 12: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 15: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 22: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, July 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 29: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 5: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 9: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 12: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 19: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 30: Discover Green-Wood
Click here for more information on Green-Wood’s rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.
$10 for members of Green-Wood. / $15 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. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Get a free ticket with a membership at left and purchase additional Member Discount Tickets if desired. 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.

City Stories, City Spirit: Write with NY Writers Coalition!
2015-07-08 17:00 - 18:45
Wednesdays for eight weeks, May 27 – July 15
Are you working on a memoir, a poem, or a story and looking for some friendly feedback? Or maybe you just want to put pen to paper and see what happens. This summer let the exquisite monuments, stunning grounds, and timeless history of Green-Wood inspire you to do just that. Join NY Writers Coalition for eight weeks of writing within the tranquil gates of Green-Wood. Utilizing the historic landscape of the cemetery, these workshops are designed to help you generate new writing and connect with your craft on a deeper level, with every nook offering inspiration and enlightenment. Writers of all genres, backgrounds, and levels of experience are welcome.
The workshops will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. on the following Wednesdays: May 27, June 3, June 10, June 17, June 24, July 1, July 8, and July 15.
Free/Registration is required. Please note this registration is for all eight sessions of this workshop. If you are unable to attend a substantial number of the workshop sessions, please notify the event organizers.
Click here for our inclement weather policy.

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(Sold Out) A Night at Niblo’s Garden
2015-07-11 19:00 - 22:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
This event is sold out. Please click here for our full event listings.

This popular event is back for 2015 and better than ever! Imagine an outdoor pleasure dome, strung with lights, adorned with fountains and featuring the top musicians, dancers and entertainers of the time. That was the scene at Niblo’s Garden – the premier entertainment house of the 19th century. Niblo himself had a habit of turning his Green-Wood mausoleum – built years before his death – into a pleasure garden of its own, with friends, picnics and entertainment. Rumor has it he even stocked the nearby Crescent Water with goldfish!

This year we’ve teamed up with Bindlestiff Family Circus, a vaudeville and performing arts powerhouse since 1995. Bindlestiff will transform Niblo’s final resting place into a Victorian extravaganza of performing arts. Your night will begin with a picnic (bring your own) around the beautiful pond Crescent Water, and will unfold into an evening of showmanship in front of Niblo’s grand mausoleum. As always, author and Niblo expert Ben Feldman will hold court as Niblo himself. Bring a blanket, snacks, and drinks, and prepare to be dazzled by 19th-century games, fire eaters, contortionists, and much more – all lit by candles and a starry sky.

$32 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$37 for non-members.

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

(Sold Out) Historic Trolley Tour
2015-07-12 13:00 - 15:00
Credit: Robert Denbo
This date’s tour is sold out. Please scroll down to buy tickets for another date.
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, April 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, April 29: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 6: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 13: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 20: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 27: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 31: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday June 3: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday June 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 14: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 17: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 24: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 28: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 1: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 8: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, July 12: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 15: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 22: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, July 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 29: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 5: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 9: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 12: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 19: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 30: Discover Green-Wood
Click here for more information on Green-Wood’s rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.
$10 for members of Green-Wood. / $15 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. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
Mobile users: Please tap here to buy tickets.

Not a Member?
Get a free ticket with a membership at left and purchase additional Member Discount Tickets if desired. 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) Historic Trolley Tour
2015-07-15 13:00 - 15:00
Credit: Robert Denbo
This tour on this date is sold out. Please scroll down to buy tickets for other dates.
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, April 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, April 29: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 6: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 13: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 20: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, May 27: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, May 31: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday June 3: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday June 10: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 14: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 17: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, June 24: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, June 28: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 1: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 8: Discover Green-Wood
Sunday, July 12: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 15: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 22: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Sunday, July 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Wednesday, July 29: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 5: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 9: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 12: Hidden Gems of Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 19: Discover Green-Wood
Wednesday, August 26: The Far Side of Green-Wood
Sunday, August 30: Discover Green-Wood
Click here for more information on Green-Wood’s rotation of three different tours. Each boasts great views, beautiful monuments throughout, rolling hills, century-old trees and stories of the fascinating persons interred at Green-Wood. Please note: all tours include a visit to Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and to Battle Hill.
$10 for members of Green-Wood. / $15 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. Click here for our inclement weather policy.
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Inventors Club: Charles Lewis and Louis Comfort Tiffany
2015-07-19 12:00 - 15:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
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The Tiffany family was artistic, innovative, and had an immense influence on 19th-century jewelry and design. The Inventors Club will examine the patents the family held, and explore how they forever influenced jewelry in America. Then, you’ll explore how the jewelry world is changing today through the use of 3D printing technology. See how the technology works, and then mimic the Tiffany’s by printing your own jewelry designs!
Green-Wood Inventors Club
This summer, unite the past and the future at Green-Wood! The Green-Wood Inventors Club combines the great outdoors, history, and modern technology to create fun workshops for families. Learn about famous scientists, designers, and inventors by exploring their life and work. Hands on projects will connect these fascinating personalities to our modern times. The Inventors Club will be stationed in Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel, and at the Green-Wood monument of the personality we’re exploring. Visit both locations to learn about history and create something cool, too. Workshops are free and run from noon to 3:00 p.m.
Green-Wood Inventors Club is presented with Sunset Spark, an organization offering free, high-quality classes for the immigrant community of Sunset Park. Sunset Spark involves kids, adults and families in a wide variety of science and engineering subjects like neuroscience, software engineering, and physical computing.

Club de Inventores Green-Wood
La familia Tiffany era artística, innovadora, y tenia una influencia inmensa en la fabricación y diseño de joyas en el siglo 19. El Club de Inventores examinara las patentes de la familia y explorara como influencio, para siempre, la fabricación de joyas en America. Después, exploraras como el mundo de las joyas esta cambiando hoy en día a través del uso de la tecnología de impresión 3D. Ve como la tecnología funciona, y después imita la de Tiffany imprimiendo tus propios diseños de joyas.
¡Este verano, unete al pasado y presente en Green-Wood! El Club de Inventores Green-Wood combina historia, y tecnología moderna al aire libre para crear talleres divertidos para familias. Aprende sobre científicos, diseñadores, e inventores famosos al explorar sus vidas y trabajos. Talleres prácticos conectaran estas fascinantes personalidades a nuestros tiempos modernos. El Club de Inventores se reunirá en la Capilla Histórica de Green-Wood, y en el monumento de la tumba de la persona que estamos investigando. Visita ambos lugares y aprende sobre la historia e inventa algo genial también. Los talleres son gratis y se llevan acabo de 12 del medio día hasta las 3 de la tarde.
El Club de Inventores Green-Wood es presentado en conjunto con Sunset Sparks, una organización que ofrece clases gratis y de alta calidad para la comunidad inmigrante de Sunset Park. Sunset Spark involucra a los niños, adultos y familias en una variedad amplia de materias científicas y de ingeniería tales como neurociencia, ingeniería de programación informática e computación física.

City Spirit, City Stories: Open Mic in the Chapel
2015-07-22 18:30 - 20:30
Join NY Writers Coalition in Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel, for City Spirit, City Stories, a community reading and open mic in celebration of the talented storytellers hiding in plain sight of this big city!
In workshops facilitated by Rachel Plutzer and Julia Hillman Craig, playwrights, poets, essayists, and artists of other forms gather together within the cemetery’s beautiful grounds and historic interiors. For the past eight weeks, they’ve found inspiration and enlightenment from stories of the past to fuel their own art, and we’re excited to have them share these new discoveries — and new writing! – with us this summer.
We’ll see you in the Chapel for a special evening of art, poetry, and prose — and bring a story or poem to share if you’d like. Light refreshments provided by NYWC & Green-Wood.
Suggested Donation: $7. All proceeds support the Green-Wood Historic Fund and New York Writers Coalition’s free creative writing workshops in New York City.
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(Sold Out) Twilight Tour and Catacomb Soiree
2015-07-23 19:30 - 22:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Credit: Steven Acres

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There are few places more atmospheric than a cemetery at dusk – and Green-Wood is top notch when it comes to beauty and atmosphere. So take a walk on the wild side during this special event that will lead you on a twilight tour of the expansive grounds. As the sun sets on 478 spectacular acres, you’ll weave through stunning landscapes and visit the graves of fascinating figures in New York and American culture.

After the walking tour, enjoy a drink amidst the art and greenery. The catacombs will be open for the reception, so you can wander by torchlight, sip your drink, and visit the opulent indoor resting places of Green-Wood.

$20 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$25 for non-members. Ticket price includes beverages.

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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.

Common Shade: Catherine Gallant on Isadora Duncan's Dances of Mourning
2015-07-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Credit: Steven Acres

In the early 20th century, Isadora Duncan’s innovative dances changed the art world forever. But it was the sudden death of her children that most influenced her life and work. After losing her two young children to drowning, Duncan poured her grief into dance. She created her Grande Marche and other dances expressing grief, mortality, and mourning, as well as remembrance and rebirth. Catherine Gallant is a student of Duncan, and regularly performs these dances. She’ll perform these emotional dances to live music, before discussing Duncan’s process, her relationship to her children’s death, and how Gallant connects to Duncan and her artistic outpouring of grief.

Morbid Anatomy Museum and Green-Wood present Common Shade – a dialogue existing on the borderlands between the living and the dead. Hosted in Green-Wood’s intimate Historic Chapel, Common Shade will cultivate a social space for death – a place to examine death’s prevalence in our lives, and its shifting place in history, art, culture, and society. Drawing from Green-Wood’s bucolic setting and using history as our anchor, each night’s presentations will include dialogue and interviews with guests. Together with artists, practitioners, scholars, and peers, Common Shade discussions will explore our humble acknowledgments of and engagements with death.

$25 for non-members / $20 for members of Green-Wood, BHS and the Morbid Anatomy Museum. Cash bar (free for Green-Wood Key Holders) available at each event.

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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.

Common Shade: Dr. Seth A. Gopin on the Rural Cemetery in Paris and Beyond
2015-08-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Credit: Steven Acres

Beginning in the Middle Ages, the dead lay among the living in Paris city centers. Over time, Parisian graveyards, like all inner city burial places, ran out of room. The creation of Père Lachaise Cemetery was the culmination of a struggle to reform burial practices, and this radical idea of a “cemetery” became the basis for all the burial traditions in the west, including Brooklyn’s own Green-Wood. Dr. Gopin’s lecture will trace the tradition of mass burial in Parisian church graveyards to the modern idea of the world’s first cemetery, Père Lachaise, in 1804. Dr. Gopin will discuss how this shift influenced our attitudes toward death, and how his background affects his own feelings and relationship with the topic.

Morbid Anatomy Museum and Green-Wood present Common Shade – a dialogue existing on the borderlands between the living and the dead. Hosted in Green-Wood’s intimate Historic Chapel, Common Shade will cultivate a social space for death – a place to examine death’s prevalence in our lives, and its shifting place in history, art, culture, and society. Drawing from Green-Wood’s bucolic setting and using history as our anchor, each night’s presentations will include dialogue and interviews with guests. Together with artists, practitioners, scholars, and peers, Common Shade discussions will explore our humble acknowledgments of and engagements with death.

$25 for non-members / $20 for members of Green-Wood, BHS and the Morbid Anatomy Museum. Cash bar (free for Green-Wood Key Holders) available at each event.

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) Brooklyn By Name Trolley Tour
2015-08-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
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Bergen, Schermerhorn, Martense, Havemeyer, Berry, Tompkins…to New Yorkers, these are household names. They grace our roads, our subway stations, and our parks. So how did these names come to be NYC fixtures? In most cases, these ubiquitous names are all attached to influential and powerful city dwellers of the 19th-century. They also all happen to be buried at Green-Wood.

Join expert tour guide Ruth Edebohls on this tour to the final resting places of the people who bear the names we know so well. You’ll learn about their lives, their businesses, and how they become powerful enough to have a street named after them.

$15 for members of Green-Wood and BHS/$20 for non-members.

Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant.

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Inventors Club: Elias Howe
2015-08-16 12:00 - 15:00 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
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Learn about Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine! You’ll learn about Howe and his rival, Isaac Singer, by exploring historic newspaper clippings and ads. Then a hands-on workshop will teach you how to bring sewing into the 21st century, with soft circuitry technology that creates light-up clothing. You’ll even get a chance to reprogram the circuitry to light up in different ways!
Green-Wood Inventors Club
This summer, unite the past and the future at Green-Wood! The Green-Wood Inventors Club combines the great outdoors, history, and modern technology to create fun workshops for families. Learn about famous scientists, designers, and inventors by exploring their life and work. Hands on projects will connect these fascinating personalities to our modern times. The Inventors Club will be stationed in Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel, and at the Green-Wood monument of the personality we’re exploring. Visit both locations to learn about history and create something cool, too. Workshops are free and run from noon to 3:00 p.m.
Green-Wood Inventors Club is presented with Sunset Spark, an organization offering free, high-quality classes for the immigrant community of Sunset Park. Sunset Spark involves kids, adults and families in a wide variety of science and engineering subjects like neuroscience, software engineering, and physical computing.

Club de Inventores Green-Wood
¡Aprende sobre Elias Howe, el inventor de la maquina de cocer! Aprenderás sobre Howe y su rival, Isaac Singer, examinando recortes de periódico históricos y anuncios. Después un taller practico te enseñara como traer la costura al siglo 21, con tecnología de corto circuito que crea ropa que se alumbra. Hasta tendrás oportunidad de reprogramar el circuito para que alumbre de diferente maneras.
¡Este verano, unete al pasado y presente en Green-Wood! El Club de Inventores Green-Wood combina historia, y tecnología moderna al aire libre para crear talleres divertidos para familias. Aprende sobre científicos, diseñadores, e inventores famosos al explorar sus vidas y trabajos. Talleres prácticos conectaran estas fascinantes personalidades a nuestros tiempos modernos. El Club de Inventores se reunirá en la Capilla Histórica de Green-Wood, y en el monumento de la tumba de la persona que estamos investigando. Visita ambos lugares y aprende sobre la historia e inventa algo genial también. Los talleres son gratis y se llevan acabo de 12 del medio día hasta las 3 de la tarde.
El Club de Inventores Green-Wood es presentado en conjunto con Sunset Sparks, una organización que ofrece clases gratis y de alta calidad para la comunidad inmigrante de Sunset Park. Sunset Spark involucra a los niños, adultos y familias en una variedad amplia de materias científicas y de ingeniería tales como neurociencia, ingeniería de programación informática e computación física.

Commemoration of the Battle of Brooklyn
2015-08-30 - 2015-08-31 | Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11232, United States
Credit: Lisa Alpert

The Battle of Brooklyn, fought in 1776 on land that is now a part of Green-Wood, was the first battle of the American Revolution to be waged after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. On the 238th anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, Green-Wood hosts a day of free commemoration ceremonies, trolley tours, and 18th-century living. See parades, cannon fire, horse rides, re-enactments and historic cooking. Living history events and activities will offer kids a real feel for life during the American Revolution. This is a great event for kids and families!

10:00 AM — TROLLEY TOUR (SOLD OUT): Join author and historian Barnet Schecter and Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman for a tour of Green-Wood and Revolutionary War-related sites. This tour is sold out.

12:30 PM – LIFE IN REVOLUTIONARY NEW YORK: Meet soldiers, their horses, and famous colonial Americans. Historic re-enactors will demonstrate everything from revolutionary weapons to colonial. Just inside Green-Wood’s gothic arches, food historian Sarah Loman will be on hand serving Jefferson’s Vanilla Custard Ice Cream, Maple Syrup Ice Cream, Lemonade, Raspberry Shrub, Cherry Bounce Shrub and Orange Flower Water Meringues. At the edge of the “battlefield,” Carolina M. Capehart will be cooking up soldiers’ fare over an open fire. Chat with Carolina about what she’s preparing and the food that Patriot troops received, cooked, and ate on a daily basis during the Revolutionary War. Free.

1:30 PM – BATTLE OF BROOKLYN PARADE: Grab a flag, wave it high and march to Battle Hill with The Regimental Band of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Begins at the main gate. Free.

2:00 PM – COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY: Honor the spirit and heroes of the Battle of Brooklyn at this commemoration on Battle Hill, overlooking New York Harbor. Free.

If you plan to attend any of the free events, please register once below and consider an optional donation.
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Green-Wood trolley tours are fully accessible and ADA compliant.

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