The Brooklyn Eagle: Green-Wood Cemetery Seeks To Bring Angel Back to Monument

June 4, 2009 ‘Angel of Music’ Is Gone From Composer’s Grave GREEN-WOOD — Brooklyn’s Historic Green-Wood Cemetery recently announced a new fundraising campaign to re-create “The Angel of Music” — a delicate and intricate sculpture that once marked the grave of legendary 19th century American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). The angel disappeared from the … Read more

The New York Times: Hidden History (Video)

December 22, 2008 Since 1838, thousands of famous, infamous or forgotten New Yorkers have been buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, a historic and architectural landmark in the heart of Brooklyn. To view the NY Times Escapes video, click here>

NY Times: Green-Wood Cemetery Builds a Collection

December 7, 2008 Green-Wood Cemetery Builds a Collection By GLENN COLLINS It is the city’s most monumental art collection. Literally. For the last four years, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, the 170-year-old resting place of entombed luminaries from Boss Tweed to Leonard Bernstein and the original Brooks brothers, has been acquiring paintings created by the artists … Read more