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
November 30, 2008 By SETH KUGEL A lot of people live in New York, which is part of what makes the city so great. But it comes with a corollary that’s a bit of a downer: a lot of people die there, too. Luckily, back in the mid-19th century, someone had the foresight to set … Read more
July 22, 2008 NYC Honoring a Man Who Helped Open Japan to the West By CLYDE HABERMAN The observance lasted but a few minutes. For that brief ritual, the visitors had traveled nearly 7,000 miles — from Shimoda, Japan, to Brooklyn, U.S.A. It might seem a long way to go to lay flowers on the … Read more
April 1, 2004 By GLENN COLLINS Before A-Rod and Jeter, there were J-Creigh and Woodward. That would be James Creighton Jr., the world’s first true baseball star, and John B. Woodward, an outfielder who became a Union general in the Civil War. Both played for the Excelsior Club — sort of the Yankees of the … Read more