Morbid Madness

This past weekend, with my best gal by my side, I ventured out to the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

A couple days prior I had seen a show on PBS about different areas and cool places to go in Brooklyn, and this place looked pretty intriguing. To give a bit of history on the cemetery, it was built in the1838, during Victorian times. Back then, death was a prevalent part of their society so they wanted a cemetery that wasn’t so “doom and gloomy”. When it was being built, it was meant to be a cemetery-cum-park, and indeed, when it did open, it became quite a popular place to visit and have picnics.

It’s still pretty popular to this day, when we went there were a couple groups of people there wandering around like us. It was a pretty cool place, considering it was a big ol’ cemetery. There were some really creepy (but cool) mausoleums, even one that was a pyramid.



I was searching for the legendary Leonard Bernstein’s grave, but never found it. We did find Aaron Burr’s grave though, and also found the Minerva statue that they had featured in the PBS program. Minerva stands at the summit of the cemetery, marking the area of a famous battle and saluting her sister The Statue of Liberty in the harbor below.



Overall, it was a pretty cool place. If you ever find yourself down by 25th & 5th in Brooklyn, go and visit it.