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Inside Brooklyn’s Most Famous Cemetery – Graves of Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York is more than a burial ground — it’s four hundred and seventy-eight acres of American history. Founded in 1838, this historic rural cemetery became one of the most visited landmarks in the United States, second only to Niagara Falls in the 19th century. Today, more than 570,000 people rest here, from Civil War generals and Gilded Age industrialists to Broadway legends, mob bosses, inventors, artists, and cultural icons. In this narrated documentary tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, we visit thirty remarkable graves and monuments, exploring the lives behind the headstones. From Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Albert Anastasia, Samuel F. B. Morse, Boss Tweed, and Louis Comfort Tiffany, each stop reveals a different chapter of New York history — music, organized crime, baseball, politics, civil rights, aviation, theater, and American innovation. Filmed and written in the style of a historical cemetery walk, this video blends biography, Brooklyn history, famous graves, and true crime stories into a single immersive journey. Whether you’re interested in historic cemeteries, famous celebrity graves, Old New York, Revolutionary War sites, or hidden stories of American culture, Green-Wood Cemetery offers one of the most fascinating walking tours in the country. This is a quiet exploration of Brooklyn’s most storied resting place — where the Wizard of Oz lies not far from mobsters, inventors, civil rights leaders, and one of the signers of the U.S. Constitution. Primary Research Sources Used: Green-Wood Cemetery Official Archives & Historical Society Library of Congress Digital Collections (portraits, 19th-century figures) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) New York Times Historical Archive (obituaries and contemporary reports) Smithsonian National Museum of American History Collections Brooklyn Historical Society / Center for Brooklyn History