Green-Wood After Hours
2021-04-24 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-04-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-05-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-05-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-05-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Long after Green-Wood’s gates close to the public, explore its historic grounds under the cover of night. You’ll weave through the Cemetery’s stunning landscape and visit the graves of fascinating figures in New York and American history. This not-to-be-missed walking tour ends with a visit to the Catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.

$30/ $25 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name.

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The walk is over hilly and uneven terrain, a flashlight and comfortable shoes are recommended for this tour.

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Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Green-Wood After Hours
2021-04-24 19:30 - 21:30, 2021-04-30 19:30 - 21:30, 2021-05-01 19:30 - 21:30, 2021-05-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2021-05-08 19:30 - 21:30
Long after Green-Wood’s gates close to the public, explore its historic grounds under the cover of night. You’ll weave through the Cemetery’s stunning landscape and visit the graves of fascinating figures in New York and American history. This not-to-be-missed walking tour ends with a visit to the Catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.

$30/ $25 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name.

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The walk is over hilly and uneven terrain, a flashlight and comfortable shoes are recommended for this tour.

Click here for our inclement weather policy.

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Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Birding in Peace (Sold Out)
2021-04-25 06:00 - 07:30, 2021-05-01 06:00 - 07:30, 2021-05-02 06:00 - 07:30, 2021-05-09 06:00 - 07:30
Courtesy of Jennifer Kepler.

This tour date is currently sold out. Click the button below to get tickets to another Birding in Peace date, or purchase tickets to other walking tours by going back to our calendar here.

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. Green-Wood’s official birding checklist is available to pick up from the security guard at the Main Entrance on 25th Street or to print here.

Please note: All walking tours traverse hilly and at times uneven terrain. Comfortable footwear is suggested.

Tickets are $20/$15 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name.

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Early-Spring Migration

Our April tours will be a feast for the ears and eyes with the trilling song of pine warblers and drumming pronouncements of woodpeckers on newly blossoming trees (including magnolias, maples, quinces, and dogwoods). We’ll discover thousands of songbirds resting before their trip farther north as well as arriving herons and egrets at Green-Wood’s glacial ponds.

Peak Spring Migration

From ruby-throated hummingbirds to over twenty species of colorful wood warblers, our peak migration tours will feature many of the 163 bird species that have been recorded at Green-Wood during the month of May. Beginning just after sunrise, we will experience spring’s dawn chorus at the most active time of day for birds.

Summer Birding

In July we should see the offspring of our resident red-tailed hawk bravely preparing to leave the nest. Warbler songs will be replaced by chirring cicadas and the tweets of fledgling birds. Butterflies and dragonflies are abundant. By late-July, expect the arrival of the first southbound migrants.

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Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Green-Wood’s Greatest Hits
2021-04-25 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-05-01 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-05-02 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-05-08 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-05-09 13:00 - 14:30
Credit: Amy Nieporent

Join our expert tour guides to explore Green-Wood’s historic landscape and most fascinating permanent residents. If you have never been to the Cemetery, this is your opportunity to discover the highlights of some of its 478 acres of art, history, and nature!

On this walking tour, you will tread where George Washington and his troops fought in the Battle of Brooklyn; learn the tragedy that struck the Brooklyn Theatre; pay your respects to the maestro, Leonard Bernstein; and discover much more.

$25 / $20 for members.

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There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name. The walk is over hilly and uneven terrain, comfortable footwear is encouraged. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

Location: Check-in takes place in the meadow at the Main Entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. Look for signage.

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Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– The walk is over hilly and uneven terrain, comfortable footwear is encouraged.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Great Trees of Green-Wood
2021-04-25 14:00 - 15:30, 2021-05-02 14:00 - 15:30
Credit: Amy Nieporent

It happens every spring! The flowering trees of Green-Wood explode with color, and it is a visual extravaganza! Lace up your walking shoes and get ready to start Instagram posting like crazy as you discover these blossoms in all their glory! Along the way you’ll encounter some of the over 7,000 trees in the Cemetery that represent nearly 700 species and cultivars. In fact, Green-Wood is an accredited Level III Arboretum—one of only 27 in the world.

Location: Check-in takes place in the meadow at the Main Entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. Look for signage.

$25 / $20 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name.

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Please note: All walking tours traverse hilly and at times uneven terrain. Comfortable footwear is suggested. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

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Click the gray tickets button to activate the Eventbrite pop-up, then click Enter promo code. Type in your ID number and apply your discount.

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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.

Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

History Happy Hour: Happily Never After Pt. 1
2021-04-27 18:00 - 19:00
Love and death have inspired artists, writers, and philosophers for millennia. But where do they perfectly intertwine? At a cemetery! You’ll hear tales of the lovesick and the heartbroken, as well as tawdry details of dramatic—and doomed—affairs. You’ll learn about Henry Ward Beecher’s scandalous affair with Elizabeth Tilton; the tragic death of Theodore Roosevelt’s wife on Valentine’s Day; and more.

While we can’t actually bring the bar or the drinks to you, we can offer some history on tap! Bring your own beverage–why not try our recommended cocktail of the evening–and raise a glass to the past as we stay connected through our latest series, History Happy Hour.

$9 / $4 for members. A Zoom link and recipe will be in your confirmation email upon registration.

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Varian Fry: Saving Europe’s Greatest Treasures
2021-04-28 18:00 - 19:00
In August 1940, journalist Varian Fry set out on a dangerous mission—one of the least known, but most heroic acts of the twentieth century. With the backing of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry flew to Marseilles to rescue some of the world’s most famous artists. He carried $3,000 hidden on his body and a list containing the names of 200 luminaries in the fields of art, science, literature, and medicine who were trapped in Nazi-occupied France and in danger of being slaughtered. By the time he safely returned to New York a year later, he had saved 2,000 souls—including cultural giants Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Anna Mahler, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp. After the war, Fry became the first American to be honored as a “Righteous Among Nations” by Israel’s Yad Vashem for risking his life to save Jews during the Holocaust. Join Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman and Director of Programming Harry Weil, who has a PhD in modern and contemporary art history, for a conversation about this permanent resident of Green-Wood and the art that would not exist without his heroism.

This conversation is part of our series of virtual programs about the history of Green-Wood and its permanent residents, Zooming in on History.

$9 / $4 for members. A Zoom link will be in your confirmation email upon registration.

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Mortality & Me: Green-Wood’s Book Club
2021-04-29 18:00 - 19:00
It can be difficult to engage in conversations about death: Will I say the wrong thing? Am I going to offend someone? Who wants to discuss that morbid stuff anyway? Green-Wood’s book club, Mortality & Me, will help make death, dying, and end-of-life matters an easier subject to talk about through compelling books that tackle these topics head on.

For this book club session, we will be discussing The Good Death by Ann Neumann. Following the death of her father, Neumann, a journalist and hospice volunteer set out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. And don’t worry—You don’t need to read the book in its entirety. Three designated sections, which will be the basis of our conversation, will be emailed in advance. Mortality & Me’s moderator, Josie Wells, is the creator and facilitator of Footnotes & Indexes Book Club whose mission is to connect people to literature that feeds their curiosity and articulates their lived experiences as a form of community activism. She holds degrees in African American Studies and English from Rutgers University and is an award-winning journalist.

Free, suggested donation $10. Please consider a donation to Green-Wood when reserving your ticket.

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Your donation will help ensure that we can continue to provide engaging and thought provoking programs in death education at little or no cost to you. A Zoom link will be in your confirmation email upon registration.

Arbor Day Tree Planting
2021-04-30 14:00 - 16:00
Come plant trees in celebration of Arbor Day! Green-Wood is an accredited Level III Arboretum—one of only 27 in the world—home to over 7,000 trees. And the collection continues to grow! Each new planting is selected for its climate adaptiveness, wildlife value, enhancement of the beauty of the landscape, and resilience. Here’s your opportunity to aid in that initiative.

Free to attend, registration required.

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Green-Wood’s horticulture staff will be there to share their knowledge and love of trees, and to help guide you through the do’s and don’ts of tree planting. We will be planting trees in an area where one of our mature tulip trees was felled during Tropical Storm Isaias. We will supply all of the tools and equipment, just wear closed toed shoes and clothing that is allowed to get grimy. A bottle of drinking water and sun protection is recommended!

Location: We will meet at the Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance located at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place.

Mandatory Safety Protocols

Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.The walk is over hilly and uneven terrain, comfortable footwear is encouraged.Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Birding in Peace
2021-05-01 06:00 - 07:30
Courtesy of Jennifer Kepler.

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. Green-Wood’s official birding checklist is available to pick up from the security guard at the Main Entrance on 25th Street or to print here.

Please note: All walking tours traverse hilly and at times uneven terrain. Comfortable footwear is suggested.

Tickets are $20/$15 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name.

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Early-Spring Migration

Our April tours will be a feast for the ears and eyes with the trilling song of pine warblers and drumming pronouncements of woodpeckers on newly blossoming trees (including magnolias, maples, quinces, and dogwoods). We’ll discover thousands of songbirds resting before their trip farther north as well as arriving herons and egrets at Green-Wood’s glacial ponds.

Peak Spring Migration

From ruby-throated hummingbirds to over twenty species of colorful wood warblers, our peak migration tours will feature many of the 163 bird species that have been recorded at Green-Wood during the month of May. Beginning just after sunrise, we will experience spring’s dawn chorus at the most active time of day for birds.

Summer Birding

In July we should see the offspring of our resident red-tailed hawk bravely preparing to leave the nest. Warbler songs will be replaced by chirring cicadas and the tweets of fledgling birds. Butterflies and dragonflies are abundant. By late-July, expect the arrival of the first southbound migrants.

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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.

Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Mycoblitz: City Nature Challenge Group Fungi Survey
2021-05-01 10:00 - 12:00
Participate in the Citywide Nature Challenge at Green-Wood! Join Sigrid Jakob and Potter Palmer of the New York Mycological Society for a guided Mycoblitz (the first official 2021 group survey of Green-Wood fungi for the Fungi Phenology Project). Orientation, training on data collection (with a focus on using the iNaturalist app), and materials to help with the search will be provided.

Free to attend, registration required.

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Details

We will meet at 10:00am at the Main Entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. The initial foray will last until 11:30am, when we will gather back at the gate, review our finds, and finish the foray around 12pm. For those who are familiar with Green-Wood, we will assign sections of the Cemetery to make sure we cover the entire 478 acres. And we encourage participants to continue the Mycoblitz through the weekend and into Monday! We will have folks with plenty of myco-expertise reviewing finds that are posted. We will post details on the Green-Wood Fungi Phenology Project home page as we get closer to the event.

To prepare for the mycoblitz

Sign-up with iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/signupJoin The Green-Wood Fungi Phenology Project and Green-Wood City Nature Challenge 2021 Projects. Spend some time reviewing the material that will be posted online.Download the iNaturalist app onto your mobile phone from the AppStore or Google Play. Bring a water bottle and sun protection!Creating photos of your finds is a critical part of the survey. If you don’t plan to use your mobile phone camera, bring a camera, but most savvy participants will use their phone for photos.Post your observations on Instagram or Twitter with #citynaturechallenge and #parkbypark!

Mandatory Safety Protocols

Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.The walk is over hilly and uneven terrain, comfortable footwear is encouraged.Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Members-Only Program: Beekeeping 101
2021-05-03 18:00 - 19:00
Two-part virtual class with single registration.– Part 1: Monday, May 3rd, 6pm– Part 2: Monday, May 10th, 6pm

Have you ever wondered what it takes to keep bees? Or maybe you just want to learn more about how these tiny insects create such delicious honey? Join Nick Hoefly, Green-Wood’s head beekeeper, for this two-part virtual class that will teach you all about the basics of beekeeping! Nick will cover the fundamentals of honey bee biology and behavior, as well as the logistics and initial knowledge necessary to start your own hives.

Nick Hoefly is a Master Beekeeper and owner of Astor Apiaries. He has been working with Green-Wood since 2017.

This program is open only to current Green-Wood members and beehive sponsors. Members and beehive sponsors were sent instructions for registration. If you have any questions or need assistance, please email contactus@green-wood.com.

Not a member or beehive sponsor? Click here to explore membership options, or click here to support our beehives!

Free for members and 2021 beehive sponsors. A Zoom link will be in your confirmation email upon registration. Your registration will cover both Part 1 and Part 2 of the class.

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Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.

Decolonizing Death Studies
2021-05-06 18:00 - 19:00
Gerard Fortune, Gede (Ghede, Guede)

For those not readily familiar, Death Studies (or Death Education) can be defined as the interdisciplinary study of death, dying, burial, and last-rites rituals. In all its variations, it reflects the life of societies—their political systems, social customs, norms, values, and religious beliefs. This evening’s presentation, led by Dr. Kami Fletcher, focuses on how systems of power and privilege were passed through deathways (ways of dying which can also include burial practices, funerals, mourning, and body care), either by force, coercion, or assimilation. She will highlight why it is imperative to recognize how European colonialism has marginalized, trivialized, and outright negated the deathways and death practices of nations, cultures, and persons deemed ‘other’.

Dr. Fletcher is an Associate professor of American & African American History at Albright College. She recently served as editor and contributor to Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. She is currently co-authoring First 100 Years of Black Undertaking in Baltimore and co-editing Southern Cemeteries, Imprints of Southern Culture. Dr. Fletcher serves as the president for The Collective for Radical Death Studies.

This program is presented as part of a new Death Education series at Green-Wood, Death & Us. Death is the great universal, but the ways in which the dead are grieved and memorialized vary across racial, cultural, and economic divides in the United States. This series brings together a myriad of voices—from historians and preservationists to activists and funeral practitioners—to explore how diverse communities mourn and commemorate the departed from our nation’s founding to today.

Free, suggested donation $10. Please consider a donation to Green-Wood when reserving your ticket. Your donation will help ensure that we can continue to provide engaging and thought provoking programs in death education at little or no cost to you. A Zoom link will be in your confirmation email upon registration.

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(Postponed) Green-Wood’s Hidden Treasures: A Historian’s View
2021-05-08 10:00 - 12:00
This event has been postponed to May 15th at 10am, we are sorry for the inconvenience.

Green-Wood is an immense place, and a visit to our grounds can be overwhelming. What should you see? What direction should you go in? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! This new series of tours, led by the Cemetery’s expert staff, provides a behind-the-scenes exploration of art, history, and nature.

For this morning’s walking tour, Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman will let you in on some of his nearly thirty years of research. With an eye focused on the fascinating lives of the Cemetery’s permanent residents, he will also share recent discoveries in our ongoing Civil War and Unmarked Graves Projects. Whether you are new to Green-Wood, or an old friend, there will be lots to discover together!

Jeff Richman led his first tour of Green-Wood in 1991, became the Cemetery’s part-time historian in 2001, and has been its full time historian since 2007. He has written three books, two self-guided walking tours, and the history narrative of the Green-Wood mobile app. He also maintains a blog of all things Green-Wood.

Location: Check-in takes place in the meadow at the Main Entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. Look for signage.

$30 / $25 for members. There are no paper or e-tickets. Attendees will be checked in by name. Click here for our inclement weather policy.

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Mandatory Safety Protocols

– Attendees must wear a face covering at all times and maintain at least a 6-foot distance from those not in their group.

– The tour guide will be using a voice amplifier to ensure all social-distancing protocols are adhered to.

– Follow ALL instructions and guidance from Cemetery staff and ambassadors.

– Travel Safely: Green-Wood recommends following all safety precautions while traveling to and from the Cemetery, whether by foot, mass transit, or driving. If taking mass transit, please check the MTA’s guidelines.

– Feeling Sick? Stay home if you are feeling sick or running a temperature. Please use good judgement if you have recently been exposed to someone with COVID-19. For more information about COVID-19, please check the CDC website.

– Green-Wood reserves the right to deny entry to any visitor who refuses to comply with the safety guidelines.

If you observe a situation or behavior that does not reflect these protocols, please advise an ambassador or other staff member immediately. With everyone’s cooperation this will be a memorable and safe unique experience.
