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.Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5.
Notable Places in the Area
Prospect Park
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Battle Hill is the highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, United States, at 216 feet above sea level.
Ninth Avenue station
Metro station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 740 metres southwest of Green-Wood Cemetery.
Localities in the Area
Windsor Terrace
Neighbourhood
Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
South Slope
Neighbourhood
Park Slope is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.
Sunset Park
Neighbourhood
Photo: GK tramrunner229, CC BY 3.0.
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
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Brooklyn, New York; National Historic Landmark
- Categories: rural cemetery and burial
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.65233° or 40° 39' 8" northLongitude
-73.99069° or 73° 59' 27" westElevation
52 metres (171 feet)Open Location Code
87G8M225+WPGeoNames ID
5119341Wikidata ID
Q239043Green-Wood Cemetery Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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 Cemetery
- English: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- English: Greenwood Cemetery
- Finnish: Green-Woodin hautausmaa
- French: Cimetière de Green-Wood
- French: cimetière 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
- 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
- Spanish: Cementerio de Green-Wood
- Swedish: Green-Wood Cemetery
- Turkish: Green-Wood Mezarlığı
- Ukrainian: Грін-Вудський цвинтар
- Vietnamese: Nghĩa trang Green-Wood
- Welsh: Mynwent Green-Wood
- Yakut: Гринвуд Сээмэтри
- 그린우드 묘지
Other Places Named Green-Wood Cemetery
Localities in the Area
- GreenwoodLocality
- Greenwood HeightsLocality
- South SlopeLocality
- KensingtonNeighbourhood
- Long MeadowArea
Places in the Area
- Bishop Ford Center Catholic High SchoolSchool, 1 km northeast
- Middle School 88School, 1 km north
- Christian Heritage ChurchChurch, 1 km southwest
- Public School K295School, 1 km north
- Park Slope Christian Fellowship ChurchChurch, 1 km northeast
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