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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
William Russell Grace (1832–1904) – Irish-American businessman and former Mayor of New York City; Gil Hodges (1924–1972) – Major League Baseball player and manager; Patrick Keely – Architect; Ardolph Loges Kline – New York City Mayor, U.S. Representative; Frank J. Macchiarola – Chancellor of the New York City Schools, 1978–1983
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The New York City Municipal Archives preserves and makes available more than 10 million historical vital records (birth, marriage and death certificates) for all five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island). Researchers have open access to the indexes, and both microfilmed and digital copies of vital records on-site ...
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. [ 7 ] 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. Its boundaries include, among other streets ...
Milton Heumann (B.A. 1968), Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Ruth Mandel (B.A. 1960), Professor of political scientist, director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Marvin Schick (B.A. 1956), Hunter College and New School for Social Research political science and constitutional law professor, known ...
Washington Cemetery – eastern edge of cemetery#1, bordering Ocean Parkway. Washington Cemetery is a historical and predominantly Jewish burial ground located at 5400 Bay Parkway in Mapleton, Brooklyn, New York, United States. Founded in Kings County in 1850, outside the independent city of Brooklyn, [1] it became a Jewish burial ground as ...
Category. : Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn. Holy Cross Cemetery, located at 3620 Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, is an American Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Diocese of Brooklyn.