This hill inside the Green-wood cemetery is the highest point in Brooklyn, the battle ground of Long Island on August 27, 1776 – back in the indpendance war ear, Brooklyn and Queens were all part of Long Island. It’s the biggest battle of the war.
There are four ponds, Crescent Water, Dell Water, Sylvan Water and Valley Water. The photos below are Sylvan and Valley.
Whenever I see a sign in Chinese only in a non Chinese country, it makes me feeling terrible …
According to find a grave, estate of John Wolfe Forbes listing his children and grandchildren, (born in):
This family lot is for TR’s first wife, father and mother, and many relatives … Most headstones are hard to read.
5th Avenue and 25th Street
Brooklyn, NY
A national histrical landmark, it began in 1838 when the churchyards were over crowded. Clean bathrooms. There are many well known residents, Louis Comfort Tiffany (stained glass), Leonard Bernstein, etc.
