Alive At Green-Wood Cemetery - N.Y.C. Finally Revisited October 2021

We walked over 3 miles south from Prospect/Crown Hts.to Green-Wood Cemetery, c. 1838. We walked mainly on 7th Ave. through Park Slope. After exploring parts of the cemetery we walked back through Prospect Park for a lovely 8+ miles walk.

Green-Wood Cemetery's Civil War Soldiers' Monument, on the highest point in Brooklyn.

"In 1844, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle printed the following prediction ‘THE CITY OF CHURCHES — such, in time, will be the distinctive appellation of Brooklyn.”’ In the ensuing decades, the incorporation of new houses of worship matched the pace of residential development and reflected the diverse ancestry of the immigrant communities who settled there. The buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries express the evolution of American church architecture, as dictated by the pride and prosperity of worshippers from Bushwick to Bay Ridge." This trend continues as evidenced by the number of churches we passed as we walked to Green-Wood Cemetery & in our other meanderings through Brooklyn.

The Stoop Kidz Brass Band, a New Orleans style band has played on this porch, a few blocks from our apartment. They weren't performing while we were there. Phooey.

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This a public school playground. It looks like a big animal cage that the lion tamer would go into, at the circus. This is in Carroll Gardens, a pretty upscale ‘hood.

Car washer will come to you.

The historic Weir Greenhouse , just across from the entry to Green-Wood Cemetery. It has been purchased by the Cemetery & is slowly being returned to its former glory.