July 23, 2009 Local sculptor a finalist for cemetery piece She used to stand over the grave of legendary 19th-century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Directing an invisible symphony with a harp at her feet, the angelic marble figure rose above the surrounding headstones in Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. That was until it … Read more
July 19, 2009 By MICHAEL WILSON Kestutis Demereckas, a tall, broad son of Lithuania who favors classic white headstones over the shiny black ones, stood grinning over a coffin-size patch of grass in Green-Wood Cemetery that was marked with nothing at all. Below the grass, in a shady part of Section 79, near the center … Read more
July 6, 2009 Sculptors Chosen for the Chance to Recreate the “Angel of Music” at the Gravesite of Legendary American Composer & Pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk Five renowned sculptors have been chosen to participate in a competition to recreate the delicate and intricate sculpture called the “Angel of Music” that once graced the gravesite of … Read more
June 4, 2009 ‘Angel of Music’ Is Gone From Composer’s Grave GREEN-WOOD — Brooklyn’s Historic Green-Wood Cemetery recently announced a new fundraising campaign to re-create “The Angel of Music” — a delicate and intricate sculpture that once marked the grave of legendary 19th century American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). The angel disappeared from the … Read more
December 29, 2008 Part of channel Thirteen’s “The City Concealed” series: The City Concealed, an online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. Visit the places you don’t know exist, locations you can’t get into, or maybe don’t even want to. Each installment unearths New York’s rich history in the city’s hidden remains … Read more
December 22, 2008 Since 1838, thousands of famous, infamous or forgotten New Yorkers have been buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, a historic and architectural landmark in the heart of Brooklyn. To view the NY Times Escapes video, click here>
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
November 11, 2008 Visit the on-line photo gallery of New York Cemeteries. See intriguing monuments, beautiful grounds and the final resting places of the rich and famous. Robert Caplin for The New York Times
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