One of the regular contributions we’ll be getting from the Center for the Urban Environment are posts about the great tours they run. Here’s this week’s inaugural post: Underground Muses of Green-Wood: Sunday, May 4, 1:00- 3:30 pm – with Ruth Edebohls Many famous and fascinating artists, actors and composers have made Green–Wood Cemetery their […]

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[Photo courtesy Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] We return to Green-Wood Cemetery courtesy of GL Contributing Photographer Deborah Matlack for this image of its lake in Spring. “Quietest place in town,” she writes. And, if it wasn’t, we’d be worried. All kidding aside, Green-Wood, which very popular as a park back in the day, is a very […]

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrooklyn/flickr] One of the often unrecognized beautiful spots in Brooklyn in spring is Green-Wood Cemetery. This photo is from a full flickr set which can be viewed here. The blossoms are gorgeous.

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Mark the calenders for a very, very big stoop sale in Greenwood Heights. It’s the 3rd Annual 23rd St. Mega Stoop Sale (23rd St. between 6th & 7th Avenues). It will take place on Saturday, May 17 from 11AM-5PM. Per an email: “Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, very reasonable […]

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If you enjoy the idea of books and Green-Wood Cemetery, this could be your event: On Sunday (4/6), the Green-Wood Historic Fund will be presenting a book talk with author David H. Jones about his book Two Brothers: One North, One South. It will take place at 1:00 PM Green-Wood Cemetery’s Historic Chapel, which is […]

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It’s time for another Green-Wood Cemetery photo contest. Details have been posted over at the brooklynian site about a contest for photos. (The contest is not connected to Green-Wood Cemetery.) Here are the details as posted: We are working on the Spring 2008 version of Green-Wood’s bi-annual magazine The Arch. While we have a cache […]

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Sixth Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

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The corner of 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue looks bad enough because of the longstanding construction site that was to be the Minerva Building, but the burned carcass of a what might have been a Hyundai Rav 4 has been added to the mix. The car went up on Friday night and, of course, the […]

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This is a video from Aaron Brashear of Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights showing a vehicle that went up in flames on 23rd Street at Seventh Avene on Friday night. The vehicle went up in flames next to the site of the former Minerva Building, which itself entertained with dangerous-looking work a couple of weeks […]

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

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That was quick. The Department of Buildings pounced on what looked like a very unsafe excavation operation at the Minerva Building site (614 Seventh Avenue) in Greenwood Heights yesterday. We posted photos yesterday sent by Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. By afternoon, the group had sent word of a Stop Work Order and new photos […]

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We had some photos of the mess outside the so-called Minerva Building site at 614 Seventh Avenue in Greenwood Heights, but were not going bother with them since the real mess appears to be inside the construction fence. Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights sent out an email last night that seem to show some dangerous […]

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The year is ending and the new year beginning in Greenwood Heights in much the same way that 2007 did: with residents keeping an eye on a new development in their neighborhood and creating an interesting model for other neighborhoods. The Greenwood Heights crew used YouTube vids documenting construction issues on development to great effect […]

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From the good people that bring us brooklynparrots.com and know everything that there is to know about our Brooklyn parrots.

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It’s too late now to make a bid on one of the condos at Shangri-La on Sixth Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets, but one wonders how many developers of marginal Brooklyn buildings will eventually resort to desperation tactics. Fluke or harbinger of things to come?–Brownstoner

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Here’s a Stop Work Order music video from Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. It concerns 614 7th Avenue, aka the Minerva Building site. Their narrative: Lots of shiny new DOB and DOT permits up …and what do we have here? TWO SWOs! Deplorable conditions on the site that includes TONS of garbage, tires, hazardous waste […]

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From Gary Mirabelle of Mirabelle Studios, we bring you the last in a series of several gorgeous photos he sent us of fall in Green-Wood Cemetery.

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This gorgeous view of Green-Wood Cemetery comes from the camera of Gary Mirabelle of Mirabelle Studios, and is one of many beautiful fall shots he sent along. You can check out Mr. Mirabelle’s work extraordinary work as a sculptor by clicking here.

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This gorgeous shot of Green-Wood Cemetery in fall comes from regular GL photo contributor Gary Mirabelle of Mirabelle Studios. You can read more about Mr. Mirabelle, who is an extraordinary sculptor, by clicking here.

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The Green-wood Historic Fund is presenting Unexpected New York, which is about “87 New York City places you thought you knew. 87 surprising but true stories you’ve never heard before.” The event takes place tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 at 1:00 PM at the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. The speaker and reader will be […]

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Perhaps you saw our coverage yesterday of the Greenwood Oil Spill or Brownstoner’s excellent coverage of the same issue. Brownstoner took the time to swing by the site and reported that a worker at 716 Sixth Avenue (at 23rd Street) said reports of underground gasoline were “bullshit,” but was unable to explain the huge turnout […]

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On Wednesday we noted some issues that had come up as a result of work at 300 20th Street in Greenwood Heights, as did Brownstoner on Tuesday. Last night, we got an email and photos from Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights (which stays on top of issues in its neighborhood like few other groups in […]

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Gasoline was found in Greenwood Heights yesterday. It’s unclear how much gasoline is underground there–whether it’s an isolated, small pocket or something indicative of a bigger spill–but excavation at 716 Sixth Avenue (at 23rd Street) encountered gasoline. Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights sent out an email saying “light headed here” in reference to the “bad […]

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For a moment when we saw these photos, we thought we were looking at a site we’d missed in Williamsburg or Greenpoint. Actually, it’s at 300 20th Street in Greenwood Heights. Brownstoner noted the mess yesterday morning and there’s now a Stop Work Order on the project for both undermining the property and building next […]

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When we saw this yesterday, we couldn’t get it out of our minds: A six-unit condo on Sixth Avenue with an awful history (including the death of a worker) is trying to market itself as being in “Sun Slope.” Dear God.–Brownstoner

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