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A Performance in the Historic Chapel Due to unforeseen circumstances, this performance is being postponed. Please check back for rescheduled dates. Phantom Waves is an innovative music series crafted for the distinctive acoustic spaces of Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and Catacombs. Headlined by musicians making waves with experimental approaches to voice, instrumentation, and composition, the series … Read more
A performance in the Catacombs Phantom Waves is an innovative music series crafted for the distinctive acoustic spaces of Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel and Catacombs. Headlined by musicians making waves with experimental approaches to voice, instrumentation, and composition, the series offers immersive sonic journeys that blur the line between the living and the spectral. The 2024 … Read more
NAMING THE LOST Memorials (NTLM) is a small team of artists, activists, and folklorists that has been curating memorial sites in New York City to name and remember victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. From May 3–June 3, 2024, in partnership with City Lore and with a grant from the Mellon Foundation, NTLM presents A BIG, … Read more
Stephanie Carey has been a Green-Wood Historic Fund volunteer since as long as we’ve had volunteers–almost 8 years now. She comes to our Research Days with her husband Mark, and even has brought her daughters along to help out. Stephanie works in New Jersey as a public health professional: she is in charge of communicable disease … Read more
Explore resources and activities that families, students, and teachers can use for learning at home or on self-guided visits to Green-Wood. We will update this page as new materials become available. SELF-GUIDED RESOURCE KITS No fussing, planning or printing at home—let us curate fun materials for your next self-guided visit! Reserve a resource kit now. … Read more
Born in Massachusetts to Jewish immigrants from Russia, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) resisted his father’s efforts to steer him into the family’s beauty-supply business, instead choosing a music career. After studying music and graduating from Harvard, he spent the summers of 1940 and 1941 working at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitzky, who became his mentor. Bernstein was … Read more
Everybody loves a great story, and Green-Wood has countless stories to tell. From the famous to the nearly forgotten; business moguls to artists; statesmen to family men—Green-Wood’s over 570,000 permanent residents range all walks of life. Residents include Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Charles Ebbets, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Horace Greeley, baseball legends, politicians, artists, … Read more
From Canvas to Stage: A Tribute to Basquiat Produced by Wordsmith and Danny SimmonsThursday, September 7th, 7–10pm ARTIST BIOS PRODUCER, POET, AND VISUAL ARTIST Danny Simmons @dannysimmonsjr Danny Simmons, Jr., is an American abstract painter from Queens, NY, who once coined his particular style of painting as “neo- African Abstract Expressionism.” His talent and passion … Read more
WELCOMING NYC ARTISTS TO CREATE AT GREEN-WOOD About The Green-Wood artist residency provides one artist in the visual and/or performing arts with a studio space and honorarium to create a site-specific installation or performance at The Green-Wood Cemetery. The residency is open to emerging artists living and working in New York City. The selected artist … Read more
Green-Wood is a living cemetery that brings people closer to the world as it is and was, by memorializing the dead and bringing to life the art, history, and natural beauty of New York City. Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By … Read more
