Suggestions for Landmarks and Outdoors near Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

James C. • May 19, 2012Clear view to the statue of liberty. Awesome information on battle of Brooklyn. Worth a trip.

Jennifer B. • September 6, 2013It's a great place for kids, but if there were less kids, like none, than it would really class up the joint.

Kika G. • May 30, 2012Friday evenings are the jam! Go at sundown to hang with all the cool dogs.

Nate F. • August 19, 2020eliza gilbert, also known as lola montez, was an irish dancer and adventuress who became mistress to the king of bavaria and made a countess

Nate F. • September 3, 2020dewitt clinton was a senator, mayor, and governor, and champion of the erie canal and abolition of slavery in new york

Nate F. • June 30, 2021stephen whitney was one of the wealthiest merchants in new york city in the first half of the 19th century

Nate F. • June 29, 2021rapper, singer, and songwriter known professionally as pop smoke, murdered in los angeles during a home invasion

Nate F. • October 9, 2020a member of the US house of representatives from new york

Nate F. • August 16, 2020Laura Keene was the lead actress in Our American Cousin, the play being performed at Ford Theater the night Lincoln was assassinated.

Nate F. • August 22, 2020charles ebbets was owner of the brooklyn dodgers and built their stadium, ebbets field, in flatbush

Nate F. • June 23, 2021first bicyclist to ride a mile in less than a minute

Nate F. • May 26, 2021the statue perched atop the tomb is the archangel michael

Nate F. • September 12, 2020this gothic revival pavilion was designed by richard upjohn for the pierrepont family, developers and planners of brooklyn, and founders of green-wood cemetery

Nate F. • August 18, 2020susan smith mckinney-steward was the first female african american medical doctor in new york

Nate F. • September 14, 2020tomb of pianist and egyptologist albert ross parsons and his wife alice schuyler van ness

Nate F. • September 16, 2020known as the "progressive minstrel", was the first white owner of a minstrel troupe composed of black performers in the US

Nate F. • August 30, 2020do-hum-me was the daughter of the chief of the sauk tribe and was a popular performer at pt barnum’s american museum before she died of illness at age 18. she is buried in her wedding dress.

Nate F. • June 30, 2021founder of the john m bradstreet financial company which later merged with dunn and company to the dunn and bradstreet company

Nate F. • September 16, 2020monument dedicated by the city of new york in honor of its heroic dead and to the 148,000 soldiers who enlisted to serve in the civil war

Nate F. • May 26, 2021a flock of argentine monk parakeets have made their nest on the middle tower of the arch and can often be seen going about their business

Nate F. • August 19, 2020samuel morse was a leading portrait painter, pioneering photographer, and most famously the inventor of the telegraph and morse code

Nate F. • June 30, 2021the family mausoleum of john delafield, merchant and founder and director of mutual insurance company

Nate F. • September 9, 2021an english astronomer best known for producing one of the earliest maps of the planet mars