Novice green thumbs should hitch a ride to Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery (cue creepy music) for “TU-MULCH-UOUS AND TREE-MENDOUS,” a day of free high-grade mulch (sounds like a juice fast ingredient), free trees—provided on a first-come, first-served basis by the New York Restoration Project and MillionTreesNYC—and free gardening advice from Green-Wood horticulture experts. Each tree, Read More
Though Anthony Weiner is no longer advocating to place a naked man in the “free stuff” section of Craiglist, the city has plotted its own scheme for relocating the unclothed, kind of sexist statue. Read More
The married Brooklyn authors Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt have ensured they will remain in Brooklyn together in perpetuity. Vanishing New York reports on their recent purchase of twin plots in Green-Wood Cemetery, where Mr. Auster gave a reading in the cemetery chapel to coincide with the announcement of their purchase. Read More
We thought tomorrow’s weather was going to be like today’s, so, underdressed and overconfident, we took a gander at several new developments in the Sunset Park neighborhood, strolled about Green-Wood Cemetery, gazed at the tombstones and statuary, found ourselves locked in, and made a daring escape (over the fence, hyperextending our hip).
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