Suggestions for Outdoors & Recreation near Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

John W. • August 22, 2014Beware the water feature. It gets turned into hose by enterprising children.

Trevor R. • August 12, 2015The mornings are really mellow and most of the dogs are well behaved. Prepare to shake a lot of dust off of your pooch.

Nate F. • September 3, 2020dewitt clinton was a senator, mayor, and governor, and champion of the erie canal and abolition of slavery in new york

Nate F. • June 30, 2021stephen whitney was one of the wealthiest merchants in new york city in the first half of the 19th century

Nate F. • June 29, 2021rapper, singer, and songwriter known professionally as pop smoke, murdered in los angeles during a home invasion

Nate F. • June 11, 2021celebrated american composer, conducted historic performance of beethoven’s ninth in berlin to mark fall of the wall.

Nate F. • October 9, 2020a member of the US house of representatives from new york

Nate F. • June 27, 2021the first practitioner of homeopathy in the united states

Nate F. • May 26, 2021don’t miss the grave of fannie the dog, the largest stone in the plot after elias’s, immediately behind his monument

Nate F. • August 22, 2020charles ebbets was owner of the brooklyn dodgers and built their stadium, ebbets field, in flatbush

Nate F. • June 23, 2021first bicyclist to ride a mile in less than a minute

Nate F. • June 29, 2021british american architect known for his gothic revival churches, designed the gothic archway at the entrance of green-wood cemetery

Nate F. • May 26, 2021the statue perched atop the tomb is the archangel michael

Nate F. • September 12, 2020this gothic revival pavilion was designed by richard upjohn for the pierrepont family, developers and planners of brooklyn, and founders of green-wood cemetery

Nate F. • August 18, 2020susan smith mckinney-steward was the first female african american medical doctor in new york

Nate F. • August 22, 2020henry chadwick was a sportswriter, often called the father of baseball, who created box scores and many baseball statistics

Nate F. • October 6, 2020the grave of a former mayor of brooklyn marked by a sculpture of the angel of death by solon borglum, brother of gutzon borglum who sculpted mount rushmore

Nate F. • August 30, 2020do-hum-me was the daughter of the chief of the sauk tribe and was a popular performer at pt barnum’s american museum before she died of illness at age 18. she is buried in her wedding dress.

Nate F. • September 16, 2020monument dedicated by the city of new york in honor of its heroic dead and to the 148,000 soldiers who enlisted to serve in the civil war

Nate F. • May 26, 2021a flock of argentine monk parakeets have made their nest on the middle tower of the arch and can often be seen going about their business

Nate F. • August 19, 2020samuel morse was a leading portrait painter, pioneering photographer, and most famously the inventor of the telegraph and morse code

Nate F. • May 15, 2021the havemeyer family made their fortune in the sugar business, and owned the domino sugar refinery in brooklyn, one of the world’s largest

Nate F. • June 30, 2021the family mausoleum of john delafield, merchant and founder and director of mutual insurance company

Nate F. • June 30, 2021soap industrialist and founder of the colgate-palmolive company