#64 Green-Wood Cemetery

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2008

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Green-Wood Cemetery is one of New York's oldest burial grounds, but its development reaches back all the way to the beginning of Brooklyn's surprising history -- in fact, to the founder of Brooklyn Heights. Find out why it took an inventive city planner with a funny name, a dead New York icon, and a few errant parakeets to make this place a beautiful, richly historical place to visit today. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 64. Greenwood Cemetery.
0:04.4	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys.
0:06.0	Hey.
0:08.2	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
0:11.9	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
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0:21.2	Hello, they're welcome to The Bowry Boys. My name is Greg Young.
0:23.8	This is another in-between solo show this week.
0:27.0	We're all alone in a cemetery.
0:28.7	This time around, not only perfect for October, but perfect for fall.
0:32.8	If you've listened to any of our random sampling of our prior podcast,
0:36.8	you've probably heard about a man or a woman who is currently spending their
0:39.6	eternity right here at today's topic, Greenwood Cemetery.
0:43.2	This really is one of the most beautiful, developed areas in Brooklyn.
0:46.5	Believe it or not. And especially right now with the leaves are just
0:50.0	beginning to change, it can be really gorgeous out there.
0:53.2	And Greenwood's not exactly your typical final resting place in the first place.
0:57.2	Contain on 478 acres, Greenwood helped Brooklyn on its way to becoming a
1:01.9	vastly influential city in the 19th century.
1:05.0	It's the final home of some true New York icons mixed among 600,000 other people
1:10.9	who have been interred there since it's opening in 1838.
1:14.3	Despite this subject matter, however, this is far from a morbid show.
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