Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; National Historic Landmark
- Also known as: “Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn” and “Greenwood Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prospect Park and Battle Hill.
Prospect Park
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Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Battle Hill
Peak
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Battle Hill is the highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, United States, at 216 feet above sea level. The hill is part of the Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine formed during the last glacial period.
Ninth Avenue station
Metro station
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The Ninth Avenue station is a bi-level express station on the BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Ninth Avenue and 39th Street in Brooklyn. Ninth Avenue station is situated 2,400 feet southwest of Green-Wood Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Windsor Terrace and South Slope.
Windsor Terrace
Neighborhood
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Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Prospect Park on the east and northeast, Park Slope at Prospect Park West, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Borough Park at McDonald Avenue on the northwest, west, and southwest, and Kensington at Caton Avenue on the south.
South Slope
Neighborhood
Park Slope is a neighborhood in South Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.
Sunset Park
Neighborhood
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Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west.
Green-Wood Cemetery
- Categories: rural cemetery and burial
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Green-Wood Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقبرة غرين-وود”
- Armenian: “Գրին-Վուդ գերզմանոց”
- Azerbaijani: “Qrin-Vud qəbiristanlığı”
- Basque: “Green-Wood hilerria”
- Belarusian: “Грын-Вуд”
- Belarusian: “Грын-Вудзкія могілкі”
- Catalan: “Cementiri Green Wood”
- Chinese: “格林伍德公墓”
- Chinese: “綠蔭公墓”
- Chinese: “绿荫公墓”
- Czech: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Danish: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Dutch: “Green-Wood-begraafplaats”
- Esperanto: “tombejo Green-Wood”
- Finnish: “Green-Woodin hautausmaa”
- French: “cimetière de Green-Wood”
- French: “Cimetière de Green-Wood”
- Galician: “cemiterio de Green-Wood”
- Georgian: “გრინ-ვუდი”
- Georgian: “გრინ-ვუდის სასაფლაო”
- German: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Greek: “κοιμητήριο Γκριν Γουντ”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות גרינווד”
- Hungarian: “Green-Wood temető”
- Italian: “cimitero di Green-Wood”
- Italian: “Cimitero di Green-Wood”
- Japanese: “グリーンウッド墓地”
- Korean: “그린우드 공동묘지”
- Korean: “그린우드 묘지”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério Green-Wood”
- Portuguese: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Romanian: “Cimitirul Green-Wood”
- Russian: “Грин-Вуд”
- Slovenian: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Spanish: “cementerio de Green-Wood”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Green-Wood”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Greenwood”
- Swedish: “Green-Wood Cemetery”
- Turkish: “Green-Wood Mezarlığı”
- Ukrainian: “Грін-Вудський цвинтар”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa trang Green-Wood”
- Welsh: “Mynwent Green-Wood”
- Yakut: “Гринвуд Сээмэтри”
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