Suggestions for Memorial Site near Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

Afi Y. • June 21, 2015Great place for a walk with wonderful views of Brooklyn

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

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

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

Nate F. • August 22, 2020henry chadwick was a sportswriter, often called the father of baseball, who created box scores and many baseball statistics

Nate F. • October 9, 2020Only a dog, do you say, sir Critic? Only a dog but as Truth I prize, the Truest Love I have won in living lay in the Deeps of her limpid eyes.

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. • October 6, 2020the grave of a former mayor of brooklyn marked by a sculpture of the angel of death by solon borglum, brother of gutzon borglum who sculpted mount rushmore

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. • December 31, 2020lebanese american singer songwriter known for writing oscar winning song “last dance”. died from complications of AIDS in 1992

Nate F. • June 30, 2021soap industrialist and founder of the colgate-palmolive company

Nate F. • September 3, 2020monument in memory of the victims of a 1960 plane collision above nyc

Nate F. • September 10, 2020james stranahan was a brooklyn politician instrumental in the creation of prospect park

Nate F. • August 30, 2020the largest private mausoleum in green wood hosts the remains of the family of henry steinway, piano maker

Nate F. • June 30, 2021businessman, philanthropist, and father of future president theodore roosevelt

Nate F. • September 3, 2020monument for the 103 victims of an 1876 theater fire

Nate F. • September 10, 2020leader of the bowery boys gang, was (heavily) fictionalized in scorsese’s gangs of new york

Nate F. • June 29, 2021construction contractor involved in creation of the brooklyn bridge. his grave stone is made from a piece of granite that was once part of the bridge.

Nate F. • September 3, 2020jean-michel basquiat died of a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1988. in 2017, a 1982 painting of his sold for $110.5 million, setting a record price for any american artist

Nate F. • June 30, 2021trade merchant and philanthropist

Nate F. • June 30, 2021family mausoleum of william chauncey, a wealthy shipping merchant

Nate F. • April 20, 2021grandson of alexander hamilton and elizabeth schuyler

Nate F. • June 29, 2021with brother bolossy, hugely influential burlesque and spectacle producer

Nate F. • April 20, 2021granddaughter of alexander hamilton. she is buried between her first husband, general henry halleck, and her second husband, his chief of staff geroge washington cullum

Nate F. • January 7, 2021son of charles pfizer, co-founder of pfizer pharmaceuticals