From the GL Inbox last week, this only goes to show how much neigbhoborhood activism it takes to get a some stop signs insgtalled. For real: A quick note with the text of the letter that has gone out from CB7 to NYC DOT. Great letter by our Dist. Manager. *I am hopeful our elected […]

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This was distributed yesterday evening by Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights and the assault would have occured in daylight. Aaron Brashear, who sent out the email, writes: “Does anyone have an more news on this? Most disturbing since this particular area of South Brooklyn has been very safe form many years. While I would hope […]

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We love our Brooklyn parrots and it appears they were having a time of it at Green-Wood Cemetery a few days ago. A GL reader sent us links to a couple of vids of the Party Parrots of Green-Wood.

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A GL reader sent us a couple of short vids he shot of the “Brooklyn parrots going crazy” at Green-Wood Cemetery over the weekend. Must have been something in the air.

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The maker of this vid describes it as a “high strung” walk through the snow in Park Slope and Greenwood Heights.” Watch it and you’ll see what he means.

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Sunday, 1/4, a book reading by Daniel Walker Howe of his Pulitzer Prize–winning book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, will be held at the Historic Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery. Following, a trolley tour will move through the cemetery to the grave sites of notable writers who inspired the era, such as […]

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Observing a recent and fascinating blog debate (originated on Brooklynian.com) about the oldest business in Park Slope (it is most probably Neergaard’s)—set my mind reeling with another business, a most unusual structure with green domes on the corner of 25th Street and Fifth Avenue across from Green-Wood Cemetery. The Weir Greenhouse (now McGovern-Weir, pictured here) […]

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Okay, maybe it’s a little early in the morning for Kraftwerk, but this is a vid shot last night by Lost in Brooklyn on Flickr: “12.01.08 during the “conjunction” (a close configuration of planets/stars and the moon) of the early December’s crescent moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter from our view through Green-Wood Cemetery. […]

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[Photo courtesy of megunski/GL Flickr Pool] The view from Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights, who have been on top of the wretched energy scams being run all over Brooklyn (and the whole city for that matter), went to CB7 to give “a brief overview as to what the scams IDT Energy (and other ESCOS) have been perpetrating on our communities, how not to get […]

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Per an email from Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights, who were among the first to sound the alarm about the scam-like practices which IDT energy is engaging all over Brooklyn: “our ever vigilante crew on 23rd St. (don’t mess with us man!) was on the tip as the boys and girls of IDT Energy (most […]

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Last week, we featured utility scammers working around Greenwood Heights courtesy of warning from Aaron Brashear of Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. We had this story and this follow up the very same day. In those cases, reps from IDT Energy were switching people from Con Ed without their consent. (We don’t have a love […]

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Early today, we had the story of a scam being run by sub-contractors working for IDT Energy in Brooklyn that are switching people from Con Ed without their knowledge. Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights just emailed to say they are out working Greenwood Heights again this very minute: If it could not be more IRONIC, […]

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Here’s a fairly scuzzy interesting story that came to us via Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights about a scam-like situation going on to get people to unwittingly transfer the electrical supplier from Con Edison to a company called IDT Energy. What’s at issue is what appears to be very slimy, if not unethical and possibly […]

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[Photo courtesy of Lost in Brooklyn/Flickr] The annual reenactment of the Battle of Brooklyn took place at Green-Wood Cemetery this weekend, as part of a series of events commemorating that bloody bit of local history. (In case you missed it, yesterday, Ruth Edebohls from CUE posted a fascinating item about the location of a burial […]

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The latest installment of Forgotten New York takes a look at Green-Wood Cemetery environs (with the environs being in the image above). Here’s a sample: For years, Green-Wood Cemetery was called just plain Greenwood Cemetery, on most maps, anyway, and though officially, it’s always been Green-Wood, the hyphen has begun to make more inroads of […]

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If you enjoy reenactments of and events commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn, your time is almost at hand. The Battle was fought on August 27, 1776, turning places where we live, shop and recreate into, well, battlefields. The commemoration takes place on Sunday, August 24, 2008 at Green-Wood Cemetery. At 10:00 A.M. there’s a Tribute […]

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrookyn/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s an image of the always lovely, yet somber, Green-Wood Cemetery, which is one of many new shots of that verdant and quiet place put into our GL Photo Pool by lostinbrooklyn. If you’ve never been to Green-Wood, it’s definitely worth a visit. There’s always more information about it […]

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Have you joined our GL Photo Pool on flickr yet and started contributing? We hope you will because we’d love to see your pics and to feature them on GL. [Photo courtesy of itsnotthatfar/flickr] Here’s a gorgeous shot of dusk in Greenwood Heights that landed in our flickr photo pool courtesy of itsnotthatfar.

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[Photo courtesy of lostinbrooklyn] This is another shot from beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery, which is the final resting place of many, many people and would be one of the nicest parks in the city if it wasn’t, you know, a cemetery. As such, it’s still a very cool place. This came to us via our Gowanus […]

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So, if the beach or a barbecue isn’t your thing on Memorial Day, how about a free concert in Green-Wood Cemetery? It’s green and peaceful and historic. The 10th Annual Concert takes place on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, at 2:30PM on what promises to be a gorgeous day. Here are some details: Our annual […]

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As we’ve noted, Greenwood Heights is having its “Third Annual Mega Stoop Sale” on 23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. It takes place from 11AM-5PM. Per an email: “Houses will have lots of stuff for sale, at, of course, *very reasonable prices!* (or you can just haggle with everyone). On sale: Housewares, Tchotchkes, Books/CDs, […]

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Have you joined our new Gowanus Lounge flickr pool yet? Please do. And don’t forget to tag the photos you’d like us and other readers to see by tagging them “gowanuslounge.” This gorgeous slice of spring comes from Green-Wood Cemetery, which is about so much more than being a final resting place. It comes from […]

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There’s an unusual event taking place today at the site of what was called the Minerva Building. The former Robert Scarano building is coming back as eleven four-story buildings and this morning at 11 there’s a “building mock-up” test to show that the new buildings at Seventh Avenue and 23rd Street won’t obstruct the view […]

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These dogwood trees come from Green-Wood Cemetery. They were shot by GL Contributor Deborah Matlack, who’s been providing us with superb shots of springtime glory all season long.

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